Reviews

It is really a shame I'm writing the first review of this utterly beautiful animation. How come this fine piece of art gets so overlooked?!

Loosely based on the Giambattista Basile's fable of the same name and Roberto De Simone's musical La Gatta Cenerentola, the plot is set in a decaying future Naples and concerns a mysterious mute teenager called Mia, who struggles to escape from the Camorra boss Salvatore Lo Giusto and her vicious stepmother Angelica.

La Gatta Cenerentola is a 1976 three-act musical, in Neapolitan language, adapted by Roberto De Simone from the sixth fable (Cinderella) of Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone. It debuted in Naples and later premiered in the United States (1985) and Great Britain (1988). De Simone sought to express the dreaminess of southern Italian popular culture. His fresh and authentic reinvention of folksongs brought him prominence. The initial production was favored by theater progressives and opposed by theater purists. Art music blogs rediscovered and praised the musical 30 years after its initial release.

I've seen "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" and "Torture Garden". I liked them both and went searching for more. I've seen many users claiming that "The House That Dripped Blood" was the best. So I watched it. And I was a little disappointed.

The cast is great of course. The performance of Christopher Lee was the best thing about this film. But the stories had very little to do with this "house that dripped blood". I mean the "house" was just a place to spend the night in three stories! I expected the house to be alive.. hungry.. anything.. anything but a normal house! I expected it to have some kind of "effect" on the protagonists, but apparently they came in ready. They just were strange bunch of people looking for a place to rent! Maybe the first story - one of the silliest - was the only story with a sinister house. Peter Cushing's story was basically about a wax museum. We hardly see him in the house! The last story was just a silly joke. But I didn't hate the film. I just like it way less than the other two.