Hammer House of Horror1980

The Fear Score take

An anthology that trades gore for slow-tightening dread, each hour drawing you into ordinary English lives before something older and colder arrives. The fear here is patient and domestic — the sense that the everyday is a thin membrane over the occult. You watch waiting for the floor to give way, and it always does.

• —Ordinary lives unraveling into occult dread
• —Self-contained episodes, sudden cruel turns
• —Gothic patience over cheap shocks