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3	''Hammer House of Horror'' is a Horror GenreAnthology series that was an attempt to transfer the Film/HammerHorror brand to television. It ran for one season of 13 hour-long episodes, and first aired on Creator/{{ITV}} in 1980.
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5	The episodes covered a variety of horror subgenres, including varieties both supernatural (including witches, werewolves, and ghosts) and non-supernatural (including psychological torture, cannibalism, and serial killers).
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7	It was followed by ''Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense'', which also ran for one 13-episode season, in 1984.
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9	[[folder:Episodes]]
10	# "Witching Time"
11	# "The Thirteenth Reunion"
12	# "Rude Awakening"
13	# "Growing Pains"
14	# "The House That Bled to Death"
15	# "Charlie Boy"
16	# "The Silent Scream"
17	# "Children of the Full Moon"
18	# "Carpathian Eagle"
19	# "Guardian of the Abyss"
20	# "Visitor From the Grave"
21	# "The Two Faces of Evil"
22	# "The Mark of Satan"
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25	!!''Hammer House of Horror'' contains examples of:
26	* AffablyEvil: The elderly pet shop owner Martin Blueck, played by Hammer stalwart Creator/PeterCushing, in "The Silent Scream".
27	* AssholeVictim:
28	** The thoroughly despicable Mark from "Charlie Boy".
29	** In "The House That Bled to Death", [[spoiler:William is discovered to have been responsible for everything that happened in the titular house, including ''killing his daughter's cat'', in order to make money from selling the book and movie rights while caring little that said daughter was left severely traumatised by the events and was still having nightmares years later. He pays for it when she realizes the truth and kills him.]]
30	* AwfulWeddedLife: Norman and Emily Shenley in "Rude Awakening".
31	* BackFromTheDead: The neglected son in "Growing Pains".
32	* BurnTheWitch: The fate of Lucinda in "Witching Time".
33	* CreepyChild: The werewolf children in "Children of the Full Moon".
34	* DragQueen: Tadek in "The Carpathian Eagle".
35	* DrivenToSuicide: The housekeeper Mrs. Williams in "Charlie Boy".
36	* TheEndOrIsIt: At the end "Rude Awakening" it is hinted that [[spoiler:the secretary Lolly is going to experience the same sort of nightmares her boss did]].
37	* FemmeFatale: Natalie [[spoiler:quite literally]] in "The Carpathian Eagle".
38	* HollywoodVoodoo: The fetish doll in "Charlie Boy".
39	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Mr.Blueck in "The Silent Scream" [[spoiler: ends up trapped in the impregnable cell he designed for Chuck and Annie Spillers.]]
40	* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:The secret of a group of airplane crash survivors revealed in the twist ending of "The Thirteenth Reunion"]].
41	* MindScrew: The nightmares experienced by the protagonists in "Rude Awakening" and "The Two Faces of Evil".
42	* MirrorMonster: The demon Choronzon in "Guardian of the Abyss."
43	* NaziGrandpa: Nice old Mr. Blueck in "The Silent Scream" who owns the local petshop worked as a guard at a concentration camp.
44	* OhCrap: Norman Shenley [[spoiler:when he realizes he really did kill his wife and didn't just dream he did]] in "Rude Awakening."
45	* PoliceAreUseless: In "The Silent Scream" the police chief Annie speaks to about her missing husband is very dismissive. He regrets this later and visits the pet store but is set at ease by Mr. Blueck. Later still he continues to feel uncertain, but is shamed out of his concern when his partner taunts him for wanting to be Chuck Spillers' "nursemaid".
46	* PreciousPuppy: In "The Silent Scream" Mr. Blueck tosses a puppy to Chuck Spillers to keep him company in his cell.
47	* RainOfBlood: The children's birthday party in "The House That Bled to Death" is ended by a shower of a blood-like substance from an overhead pipe.
48	* ReligionOfEvil: The Satanic cult in "Guardian of the Abyss".
49	* TheReveal: "The House That Bled To Death" appears to be a simple haunted house story - William and Emma and their young daughter Sophie move into a house not knowing it was the site of a grisly murder and strange and horrible things start to happen; among other things Sophie's pet cat dies gruesomely having apparently accidentally slashing its neck on broken glass, the walls start to bleed, a human hand appears in the fridge and Sophie's birthday party turns into a nightmare when a pipe in the living room bursts and rains blood on the birthday girl, guests and parents. Emma has a nervous breakdown and the family flee for their lives. [[spoiler:It is then revealed that William was responsible for everything (knowing the house's history) as part of a plan make money by selling the story, and Emma was in on it as well (she wasn't really married to William and knew about the plot, although she didn't know exactly what he'd do so to make her responses authentic). It doesn't end well for them however, when a traumatised Sophie realises William was responsible for the death of her beloved cat and murders him.]]
50	* {{Ruritania}}: The homeland of Mrs. Henska and her nephew Tadek in "The Carpathian Eagle".
51	* SassySecretary: Lolly from "Rude Awakening" in [[spoiler:her boss Mr. Shenley's fantasies where she wears a series of stereotypically sexy outfits. In reality she is far primmer]].
52	* SchmuckBait: The flimsy safe in "The Silent Scream" for compulsive thief Chuck Spillers.
53	* SerialKiller: A rare example of [[spoiler:of a female killer targeting promiscuous men rather than vice versa]] in "The Carpathian Eagle".
54	* SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying: "Children of the Full Moon" attributes its adult male werewolf's choice of multiple mates to actual wolf behavior, and he himself calls his conduct "vulpine". Real wolves are monogamous, and "vulpine" means ''fox''-like; "lupine" is the word for "wolf-like".
55	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: "The House That Bled to Death" is similar to ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror''.
56	* WhamLine:
57	** In "Rude Awakening": [[spoiler:"I can't help you, Mr. Shenley. You see, I'm dead"]].
58	** In "Guardian of the Abyss"" [[spoiler: "Letting them know you're here."]]
59	* WolfMan: The woodsman and his werewolf brood in "Children of the Full Moon".

Context Series / HammerHouseOfHorror