After the death of his uncle, Graham inherits his Arts collection and his beloved wife Sarah decides to keep a weird fetish and gives it the name of Charlie Boy. A friend of them explains that it was a voodoo toy. When the other inheritor, Peter, calls of the idea of raising a movie production company, Graham uses a picture with five persons, including Sarah and himself, to wish Peter died. When the persons in the picture die, Graham tries to find a way to save Sarah and him.
Production Details
Jack Gill Presents “Hammer House of Horror” Copyright MCMLXXX
Chips Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.
A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd.
A Cinema Arts International Production in association with Hammer Films for ITC Entertainment – An OCC company.
UK Transmission Date 19th Oct 1980
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Cast & Crew
Cast & Crew – Verified as complete
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 49 | Jun 1931 | 01.06.1931 | 93 | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 41 | Apr 1939 | 01.04.1939 | 85 | 23 | 23 | ||
Costume Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/laura-nightingale/# | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Robert Young | 47 | 16 Mar 1933 | 16.03.1933 | 91 | 2 | 2 | ||
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 51 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 16 | 16 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Bryan Tilling | 51 | 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Mixer | Otto Snel | 42 | 7 Dec 1937 | 18 Dec 2022 | 85 | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/chris-barnes/# | 42 | 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 13 | 34 | |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 26 | 26 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 1 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 86 | 13 | 13 | ||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 65 | 12 Nov 1914 | 2003 | 88 | 14 | 15 | 29 | |
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 52 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/eddie-knight/# | 55 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | David Lindup | 52 | 10 May 1928 | 7 Jan 1992 | 63 | 6 | 6 | ||
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | Apr 2000 | 79 | 13 | 13 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 73 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Presenter | Jack Gill | 61 | 1919 | 13 | 13 | ||||
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-skeggs/# | 46 | Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 2 | 47 | |
Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/ron-jackson/# | 45 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Screenplay | Francis Meghay | 45 | 18 Mar 1935 | 1 May 2020 | 85 | 4 | 4 | ||
Screenplay | Bernie Cooper | 4 Jan 2011 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 57 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Special Effects | Ian Scoones | 40 | 20 Feb 1940 | 20 Jan 2010 | 69 | 13 | 9 | 22 | |
Story Editor | Anthony Read | 45 | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 | 14 | ||
Title Designer | Chris Wood | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Actress | Lee Richards | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Angry driver | Alan Stuart | 49 | 31 Aug 1931 | 28 Nov 2016 | 85 | 2 | 2 | ||
Armourer | Michael Stock | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Boy | Andrew Pariss | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Farmer | Alan Meacham | 51 | 14 May 1929 | 2 May 1998 | 68 | 5 | 5 | ||
Franks | Jeff Rawle | 29 | 20 Jul 1951 | 20.07.1951 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Graham | Leigh Lawson | 35 | 21 Jul 1945 | 21.07.1945 | 79 | 2 | 2 | ||
Gwen | Frances Cuka | 44 | 21 Aug 1936 | 16 Feb 2020 | 83 | 1 | 1 | ||
Heniz | Marius Goring | 68 | 23 May 1912 | 30 Sep 1998 | 86 | 3 | 3 | ||
Mark | Michael Culver | 42 | 16 Jun 1938 | 27 Feb 2024 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
Peter | David Healy | 51 | 15 May 1929 | 25 Oct 1995 | 66 | 3 | 3 | ||
Phil | Michael Deeks | 24 | 18 Apr 1956 | 18.04.1956 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Policeman | Charles Pemberton | 41 | 19 Sep 1939 | 13 May 2007 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sarah | Angela Bruce | 29 | 6 May 1951 | 6.05.1951 | 73 | 2 | 2 | ||
Secretary | Janet Clare Fielding | 27 | 9 Sep 1953 | 9.09.1953 | 71 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Angela Bruce appeared in Hammer’s Man at the Top (1973).
Janet Fielding went on to play Tegan, assistant to Peter Davison’s Doctor in the BBC TV series Doctor Who.