The next episode of Hammer House of Horror is The House That Bled To Death but I’ve decided not to share it for this Halloween because it features the death of a kitty and I’m kind of tired of pets dying in horror films.  It’s an effective and scary episode, though.  It’s on YouTube so if you want to watch it, feel free.  

Moving right along, tonight’s episode is Charlie Boy.  Graham (Leigh Lawson) and his wife Sarah (Angela Bruce) inherit an statue that they don’t realize also doubles as a really big voodoo doll.  After stabbing the statue a bit too many times, Graham comes to realize that he’s accidentally condemned almost everyone he knows to death, including both him and his wife.  Thanks to the fast-paced director of Robert Young and the committed performances of the cast, this is an entertainingly macabre episode.  It originally aired on October 18th, 1980.