Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)

★ 5.3 1h 31m 87 votes IMDb

Comedy Horror

Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier where 18 guests were killed in one night. It turns out that the house is the place of a satanic cult lead by a sinister monk who plans to kill the scientists who are inhabiting this house of Satan.

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Kenny Everett as Dr. Lukas Mandeville Died 1995 · Seaforth, Liverpool, England, UK Kenny Everett was born on December 25, 1944 in Seaforth, Liverpool, England as Maurice James Christopher Cole. He was a writer and actor, known for Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984), Dateline Dia...

Pamela Stephenson as Dr. Barbara Coyle Age 76 · Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand Pamela Stephenson (born December 4, 1949) is a New Zealand actress and comedian, writer and psychologist, known for Superman III (1983), History of the World: Part I (1981) and UK satirical sketch sho...

Vincent Price as Sinister Man Died 1993 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films. His career spanned other genres, including fi...

Gareth Hunt as Elliot Broome Died 2007 · Battersea, London, England, UK Alan Leonard Hunt was a British actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers..

Don Warrington as Stephen Wilson Age 74 · Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago Don Warrington MBE (born Donald Williams) is a Trinidadian-born British actor. He is best known for playing Philip Smith in the ITV sitcom Rising Damp (1974–78), and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in t...

Director Ray Cameron

Cast Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price, Gareth Hunt, Don Warrington, John Fortune, Sheila Steafel, John Stephen Hill, Cleo Rocos, Graham Stark

JPV852 2/10 Nov 29, 2024

Was intrigued by this based on the cover but found this spoof of the supernatural horror genre to be more of a bore and terribly unfunny. There were a couple neat camera tricks but I could not wait for this to end. At least the picture and audio of Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray were top-notch... **1.0/5**

Wuchak 6/10 Sep 27, 2025

**_R-rated early 80s’ horror spoof with Brit humor_**

Several years after 18 people die at a cursed manor in England, six diverse researchers go there to investigate the mysterious goings-on.

“Bloodbath at the House of Death” came out the same year (1984) as another horror comedy featuring a group of paranormal investigators, “Ghostbusters,” but this is more akin to “High Spirits,” which debuted four years later. Unlike those flicks, this is more of a spoof, and R-rated at that, with silly references to “Carrie,” “The Shining,” “Alien,” “An American Werewolf in London,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “The Invisible Man” and “The Legend of Hell House,” amongst others, like “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” on and on.

Some jokes work well enough while others fall flat with critics arguing that the movie is a bore and guilty of “the crime of attempted comedy.” Yet you can’t beat Vincent Price in his old age (72 years-old during shooting), who has about five scenes in the first hour and a memorable sendoff. Meanwhile blonde Pamela Stephenson and brunette Cleo Rocos are highlights on the feminine front, although they’re underused.

I’ve heard it said that the various slayings and gory bits are very “disturbing,” which I suppose would be true for children. It’s obvious to teenagers and adults, however, that the entire flick is a joke and so you just laugh with the bloody mayhem. Anyone who takes it seriously needs to visit the psych ward. That said, there are a couple of effectively creepy moments, such as the manifesting of the body replacements.

It runs 1 hour, 32 minutes, and was shot at Northaw Place and Northaw and Cuffley, just north of London in Hertfordshire, as well as Potters Bar, which is southwest of there.

GRADE: B-