Review Hammer House Of Horror (1980)

[Doctor Omega]

""Children of the Full Moon""
Tom Clegg Murray Smith Diana Dors, Christopher Cazenove, Celia Gregory, Robert Urquhart November 1, 1980
A couple head off on holiday to the West Country but get stranded. They find sanctuary at a house in the woods where a woman (played by Diana Dors) cares for a number of children whom he believes to be werewolves. After an accident, the husband wakes in a hospital to be told the werewolf children were all a dream. However his now-pregnant wife has changed, developing a taste for raw steak among other things.

 

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""Carpathian Eagle""
Francis Megahy Bernie Cooper & Francis Megahy Suzanne Danielle, Anthony Valentine, Siân Phillips, Jeffry Wickham, W. Morgan Sheppard, Pierce Brosnan November 8, 1980
A young woman, convinced she possesses the reincarnated spirit of a murderess, walks the night seeking out new victims to fill an ancient prophecy for death. Features Pierce Brosnan in one of his early screen roles.

 

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""Guardian of the Abyss""
Don Sharp David Fisher Ray Lonnen, Barbara Ewing, John Carson, Rosalyn Landor, Paul Darrow November 15, 1980
Human sacrifice as part of an ancient rite is the unexpected consequence when an antiques dealer unwittingly buys a mirror with mysterious evil power.

 

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""Visitor from the Grave""
Peter Sasdy John Elder Kathryn Leigh Scott, Gareth Thomas, Simon MacCorkindale
November 22, 1980
A psychologically fragile woman accidentally kills an intruder who is about to hurt her. Her husband buries the body in the woods, but she continues to see the man in various places, leading her to seek help from a psychic.

 

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""The Two Faces Of Evil""
Alan Gibson Ranald Graham Gary Raymond, Anna Calder-Marshall, Philip Latham, Jenny Laird, Brenda Cowling November 29, 1980
Setting off on their holidays, a family give a lift to a sinister hitch-hiker. After the car crashes, one man is dead and one man is injured. But which one?

 

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""The Mark of Satan""
Don Leaver Don Shaw Peter McEnery, Emrys James, Georgina Hale, Peter Birrel, Conrad Phillips December 6, 1980
A worker in a hospital mortuary becomes convinced that a conspiracy of evil has chosen him as the Devil's disciple. Those around him remain sceptical, believing that his rantings are a sign of insanity rather than a desperate cry for help from an innocent soul marked for Satan.

 

[Doctor Omega]

I find that I can watch any of this series again quite happily.

An episode of HAMMER HOUSE OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE always feels like a more daunting prospect!

In fact, I still think I have missed a few of those.

 

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"Witching Time""
Don Leaver Anthony Read Jon Finch, Patricia Quinn, Prunella Gee, Ian McCulloch, Lennard Pearce September 13, 1980
A 17th-century witch uses her craft to transport herself to the 20th century. She brings spine-chilling terror to the present-day occupants of the old farmhouse in which she lived. She puts her mark on the man now living in the farmhouse while his wife tries to save him.

 

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""The Thirteenth Reunion""
Peter Sasdy Jeremy Burnham Michael Latimer, Julia Foster, Dinah Sheridan, Richard Pearson, Norman Bird, Warren Clarke, Kevin Stoney, Gerard Kelly, James Cosmo, George Innes September 20, 1980
A reporter investigating a health farm stumbles upon a horrifying truth behind a secret society that is connected to it and must now fear for her life.

 

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""Rude Awakening""
Peter Sasdy Gerald Savory Denholm Elliott, Lucy Gutteridge,
Denholm Elliott plays a lecherous estate agent who has recurrent dreams about his seductive secretary, a mysterious house and an even more mysterious encouragement to murder his wife.

 

[michaellevenson]

Loved this episode. A fantastic ending, really a great story, that keeps you guessing as to what is going on.
James Laurenson was excellent too. My second favourite episode of the series.

 

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Yeah, I love this one too.

Denholm Elliott, as classy an actor here as he was in the Dominick segment of THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD.

 

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""Growing Pains""
Francis Megahy Nicholas Palmer Gary Bond, Barbara Kellerman, Norman Beaton, Geoffrey Beevers October 4, 1980
After the death of their young son, a scientist and his wife adopt a new son, but it coincides with a series of odd events and disasters for the father's research.

 

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""The House that Bled to Death""
Tom Clegg David Lloyd Nicholas Ball, Rachel Davies, Brian Croucher, Patricia Maynard, Milton Johns October 11, 1980
After buying it for a good price, a couple and their young daughter move into a house that was the scene of a macabre murder. A series of terrifying events eventually force them to flee for their lives, but all is not as it seems.

 

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""Charlie Boy""
Robert Young Bernie Cooper & Francis Megahy Leigh Lawson, Marius Goring, Angela Bruce, Frances Cuka, Michael Culver, Jeff Rawle, David Healy, Janet Fielding October 18, 1980
An ancient African idol possessed by the spirit of an evil sorcerer seems to take on a life of its own.

 

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""The Silent Scream""
Alan Gibson Francis Essex Peter Cushing, Brian Cox, Elaine Donnelly October 25, 1980

Peter Cushing plays an elderly pet shop owner intent on continuing experiments . His plan is to create prisons with no bars

 

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""Children of the Full Moon""
Tom Clegg Murray Smith Diana Dors, Christopher Cazenove, Celia Gregory, Robert Urquhart November 1, 1980
A couple head off on holiday to the West Country but get stranded. They find sanctuary at a house in the woods where a woman (played by Diana Dors) cares for a number of children

 

[Doctor Omega]

""Carpathian Eagle""
Francis Megahy Bernie Cooper & Francis Megahy Suzanne Danielle, Anthony Valentine, Siân Phillips, Jeffry Wickham, W. Morgan Sheppard, Pierce Brosnan November 8, 1980
A young woman, convinced she possesses the reincarnated spirit of a murderess, walks the night seeking out new victims to fill an ancient prophecy for death. Features Pierce Brosnan in one of his early screen roles.

 

[Doctor Omega]

""Guardian of the Abyss""
Don Sharp David Fisher Ray Lonnen, Barbara Ewing, John Carson, Rosalyn Landor, Paul Darrow November 15, 1980
Human sacrifice as part of an ancient rite is the unexpected consequence when an antiques dealer unwittingly buys a mirror with mysterious evil power.

 

[Doctor Omega]

""Visitor from the Grave""
Peter Sasdy John Elder Kathryn Leigh Scott, Gareth Thomas, Simon MacCorkindale
November 22, 1980
A psychologically fragile woman accidentally kills an intruder who is about to hurt her. Her husband buries the body in the woods, but she continues to see the man in various places, leading her to seek help from a psychic.