The House That Dripped Blood/Fun Facts

• This was the first feature film credit for British television director Peter Duffell.

• Vincent Price was first offered the part of Paul Henderson.

• In the "Waxworks" segment one of the figures Peter Cushing passes (several times) is of Christopher Lee as Dracula.

• Horror movie star Paul Henderson (Jon Pertwee) says he misses the "old, great" horror movies, and mentions "Dracula". He then adds: "the one with Bela Lugosi of course, not this new fellow", obviously referring to Christopher Lee, who's also in the film.

• Christopher Lee can be seen reading his favourite book, "The Lord of the Rings", over 30 years before he would appear in the films based on it.

• Peter Cushing tried to get out of his contract so that he was not away from his sick wife, but he had to carry on.

• On the films initial UK release, the British censor wanted to give it an A rating (equivalent to PG) because its lack of gore. Fearing that this would harm box-office returns, the distributors asked for it to be re-rated X or they wouldn't release it. The censor concurred.

• Originally director Peter Duffell wanted to have the title "Death And The Maiden" but producer Milton Subotsky decided finally for the title "The House That Dripped Blood"

• After his first frightening encounter while wearing the cloak, Paul Henderson reads several books on the subject of vampires. The one he is first holding is "The Vampire: His Kith and Kin" by Montague Summers. The back cover lists some of Summers' other works, including: "The Werewolf", "The Vampire in Europe", and the mis-named "The History of Witches" - the true title is "The History of Witchcraft", which means this may have been a "dummy book". Other titles seen on his desk are "The Haunted Screen" by Lee Kovacs and "Essentials of Demonology" by Edward Langston.

• The cast for this film includes Jon Pertwee, who was the 3rd actor to play the title role in Doctor Who on television, Peter Cushing, who played Doctor Who in two movies, Joanna Lumley, who played a female version of The Doctor in a special episode made by the BBC for charity, and Geoffrey Bayldon, who was twice offered the role, and who later played The Doctor in two audio dramas.

• In one sequence, Christopher Lee is seen reading a book. Due to budget constraints, he was asked to bring one from his own library and brought 'The Lord of the Rings', Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of which he would later star in.

• The character of Charles Hillyer is said to a young man but 'Denholm Elliot' was 47 when he filmed the role.

• Top billed Christopher Lee turns up over 50 minutes into the film.

• Despite an "also starring" billing Tom Adams only speaks 7 times.

• Among the photographs in the frame of Paul Henderson's mirror is one of Jon Pertwee driving "Bessie," the car he drove as the Doctor in Doctor Who. When Pertwee made this film, he was still playing the Doctor.

• The Haunted Screen, Lotte Eisner's 1974 tome on German Expressionist horror films, pops up prominently as a prop twice during the film, in both the first story (Method for Murder) and the last (The Cloak).