British film production companyAmicus Productionsis most remembered for its roster of horror films from the 1960s and ’70s.
They struck gold with this formula of segmented stories and steadily released multiple films over nine years.
Framework Story is, you guessed it, the wraparound narrative gadget.
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As its original tagline of Vampires!
suggests,The House That Dripped Bloodis chock-full of different frights.
These narratives came from the minds of two genre pros.
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Scary stories to watch in the dark.
The script does a brilliant job of combining classic horror tropes with shocking frights.
Villains were his wheelhouse, portraying some of the biggest and baddest in cinema.
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The film greatly benefited from not having too many cooks in the kitchen.
Bloch gave audiences amixture of subgenresfor a well-rounded experience including horror-comedy for a slight reprieve.
Its use of a wraparound narrative gadget gives the film as a whole a great deal of congruency.
The House That Dripped Blooddidn’t stand the test of time for name-brand monsters or gory effects.
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