5/10
Bloody Awful
3 April 2016
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** What was obviously inspired by the 1979 movie "The Amityville Horror" the Hammer series episode "The House that Bled" to its credit goes a step farther in explaining what happened in a well placed surprise or twist ending that ties up all the loose as well as bloody ends in the movie together. There's the usual unsuspecting family the Peters who buy their dream house in the country that turns out to be haunted by the previous owners of the place. That's when the husband murdered his wife and chopped her up with a pair of Kurki knives and ended up sentenced to life in an institution for the criminally insane. It's when William Peters, Nicholas Bail, and his wife Emma, Rachel Davis, and their 8 year old daughter Sophia, Emma Ridley, moved in strange things started to happen that ended up driving the family up the wall and out of the house.

A first the family cat Timmy was found hacked to death and into pieces as well as someone's severed and bloody hand was found in the fridge. Things reach a crescendo when at a birthday party for Sophia a pipe broke open and flooded the place with blood that drove everyone at the party totally batty. With the news of the house's strange activities making headline it ended up getting the attention of a number of major movie studios to get the rights from the Peter family to make a movie about it who ended up millionaires.

***SPOILERS**** Set for life with a new house with a swimming pool and tennis court and no financial problems the Peter's were in for a big surprise at the very end of the movie. It was their daughter Sophia depressed since her pet cat Timmy was found hacked to pieces who found a book, that her parents had hidden, about the house and the family who previously lived in it! Its then that Sophia realized what was really behind all the horrors that happened there: The achievement by her parents of using the house for both Fame & Fortune. And with that she took matters as well as a deadly Kukri knife into her own hand and meted out justice!
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