Bloodbath at the House of Death
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Bloodbath at the House of Death is a British 1983 horror film starring Vincent Price and Tony Blair. It is considered to be the best horror film ever made.
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[edit] Plot
In 1883, 800 people were murdered in Headstone Manor by the evil vampire, Count Cackula:
- 50 were shot
- 190 were stabbed
- 10 were hanged
- 50 were electrocuted
- 20 had their throats slit while shaving
- 80 were axed
- 1 blew up
- 9 were drowned
- 90 were buried alive when the police believed they were dead rather than unconcious
- 400 were beheaded while combing their hair
There were no survivors, and Cackula remained in a slumber for 100 years.
In 1983, a group of drunk hippies camp out near the house, where Dr. Frank N. Stinn is building himself a girlfriend out of dead bodies. With his werewolf assistant Ivor, they lure the Hippies to the house and kill them in a violent massacre.
Cackula emerges from his sleep in the cellar and kills Ivor, before moving onto Frank N. Stinn. But as Cackula begins to fight the monster, the ghosts of the 1883 murders begin to work their black magic on Cackula, reducing him to a snivelling wreck until his brain explodes and he dies. The Invisible Man, who led the onslaught, then has sex with the monster until she dies from exhaustion. Feeling depressed, he lights a cigarette, unaware that the House is sitting on top of a pocket of natural gas, blowing them all to oblivion.
[edit] Reception
The film was rewarded greatly due to it's excessive violence, gore and dark tones. It won 210 Academy Awards in 1984, but only 1 Razzie for being too long. It is also notable as some of the cast actually died while filming and their corpses were used as props for the rest of the film. Out of the 100-strong cast, only 5 turned up to the Awards Ceremony the following year.
[edit] Music
The music for Bloodbath at the House of Death was scored by Harry Bloodworth, a master of the Theremin and Harpsichord, which he used to great effect, both alone and in duet form. As is the custom in his other films including Hung by the Neck Until Dead, A Midsummers Twlight of the Flesh Eating Living Dead and the Nefarious Mollycoddling of the Murderous Miss Jane Marple, Bloodworth utilizes the instruments to impart both the quaintness of the British people and the Theremin to translate the unquenchable bloodlust favored by the Brits as well.
[edit] References to other Works
The film was actually based on a number of countless books, actors and films that led to it being a great success:
- The over-the-top violence is a salute not only to the hardcore violence found in American horror films, but also to the over-the-top works of Tex Avery, who made some of the most violent thrillers in the history of the cinema.
- The idea of a possessed house derives from Fawlty Towers.
- One of the hippies is dressed like Danny Phantom.
- In the Disney film Dirty Habits, one of the lead characters is also a werewolf.
- Frank N. Stinn is an obvious parody of Frank Sinatra.
- The splatters of blood on the walls are similar to some scenes from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
- The murder of Count Cackula is similar to the death of Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
- The opening credits were pinched from The Uncyclopedia Movie.
- The film had no script. This is similar to the production of many Pornography films of the era.
- Tony Blair is an actual monster in real life.
- The lead hippy is named Brother Brit-Man. This was the name of the Hippy cousin of Captain Britain during his lifetime.
[edit] Parody
The Amityville Horror was a spoof of B.A.T.H.O.D., but bombed more than an atomic bomb.
[edit] Cast
- Vincent Price - Count Cackula
- Tony Blair - Dr. Frank N. Stinn
- Dr. Robotnik - The Ghost
- Count Duckula - Ivor
- Peter Cushing - The Invisible Man
- Christopher Lee - Jacob Marley
- Johnny Depp - Brother Brit-Man
- Lindsay Lohan - The Monster
- Every Nutcase in London - The Rest
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