Like its American counterparts from the same era, Tales from the Crypt & Tales From The Darkside, Hammer House of Horror is overrated. Story ideas are unimaginative, the writing is predictable, and the acting overwrought. These characteristics seem like intentional features of this exact style of pulpy television anthology (very different from the far superior The Twilight Zone and One Step Beyond), is a kind of sub-genre. I don't understand the appeal.
Review of Hammer House of Horror
