Hammer House of Horror

3-4-0.

David?

Mary.

Where are you?

Darling, I'm at the flat.

Still?

Darling, I'm sorry, I'm not going to make it home tonight.

I'll have to stay up. I've still got half a dozen shots to do.

Will they get them tomorrow?

Well, they're not sure.

Freddie's trying to juggle the schedule. He wants me on stand-by.

I see.

I'm sorry, David. It can't be helped.

- Can't it? - Listen!

Oh, never mind!

Shall we expect you tomorrow?

I'll call you.

Yes, you do that.

Look, could you see to Muffin?

Make sure the stable door’s properly locked and bolted.

I don't want him kicking it open again.

- He won't, not now it's been strengthened. - Good. How's the work going?

OK.

How far have you got?

I'm just about to come up to your death scene, dear

Oh. Well...

that should be some consolation to you.

Mary, we've got...

I'll call you tomorrow. Night.

Good night, boy.

It's all right, boy. It's only thunder.

Looks like we're in for a bit of a storm.

It's all right, Bill. It's over now.

It's all over.

I said it's over, Billy!

Billy, come over here. Come on.

Bill!

What's the matter?

Do you want to go out, then?

Come on.

Bill?

Billy!

Billy?

Billy!

Billy?

Who are you?

What are you doing in here?

Who are you?

I did it.

I did it!

I did it.

- Did what? - I escaped them, that's what I did.

Where's this place?

Woodstock Farm.

Woodstock Farm, is it?

Who be you?

David Winter.

I live here.

Live here? You live here now.

Look, what is this?

Tell me, David Winter,

who be on the throne of England now?

- Now, listen... - Who?!

Queen Elizabeth, of course.

Elizabeth? When came she to the throne?

Which Elizabeth?

Elizabeth II.

- She was crowned in 195... - 19...

My lord and master be praised.

I'm free.

Come on, my beauties.

Where be your fire now, then?

Where be all of you?

Dead!

Dead, dead, the lot of you!

Look, who are you and where are you from?

Who am I? I'm Lucinda.

Lucinda Jessop, and please you.

Where I come from? I come from here - Woodstock Farm. Where else?

My, how nice you've got the old place. There's a change.

Look, I don't seem to be understanding you too well.

Did you live here once?

Aye, I lived here. I was born here.

Ah, I see.

I was born in this house in the year 1627.

16...?

- Don't be ridiculous, that's more than... - Aye, more than 300 years since.

Tell me, David Winter, what do you do with witches in these times?

Witches?

Nothing.

- You don't hunt them? - No.

You don't get pow witchfinders to swim 'em and hang 'em and burn 'em?

- No, we don't. - That's good.

That's very good, David Winter, because I be a witch.

Oh... now, listen.

I don't know what your game is, but I don't go in for that sort of thing.

What sort of thing would that be, my lovely David?

Black magic.

Fooling around on Halloween and that sort of nonsense.

They wanted to put me to the test.

They tried to swim me. And they would have burnt me.

They had their fire burning already in that yard.

- But I showed 'em my powers. - Who?

Amos Franklyn

and Joshua Smith and their Puritan gang.

But I escaped their fire like I escaped their water, and here I am.

Yes, yes, of course you are.

Like a ghost.

Oh, I be no ghost.

I be a living woman, David Winter.

Listen, wouldn't you like to lie down?

Rest for a while. You look rather tired.

- Would you like a drink of something? - Oh, you want to poison me?

You won't get rid of your poor Lucinda that way.

No, no, of course not.

Aargh!

It's all right.

It's just the power coming on again.

Take it away. Take the power away!

Now, then, come on.

It's only the lights.

Here, look.

It won't hurt you.

And...

And again.

So.

You see? Do you want to try?

Come on.

Give me your hand.

Now. And...

up.

And... down.

Not in there.

What's the matter?

The cellar.

- Yes? - Close the door.

Close the door.

They imprisoned me in the cellar down there before they dragged me out to the fire.

Power. Where's the power?

This is the bathroom...

in which we are fortunate enough to have a bath, a washbasin and a toilet.

It's only water.

Here.

Hold that.

This is the shower.

Argh!

There's nothing to be afraid of.

Now, the other rooms are quite ordinary.

Just bedrooms.

Bedchambers?

Yes, that's all.

Look.

This used to be my room.

There, you see?

Why don't you have a little rest?

You must be rather fatigued after traveling for 300 years.

Let me out!

- You swore you would not harm me! - I won't.

Just stay there and rest. I won't let anything hurt you.

Let me out!

Open this door, David Winter!

Just you let me out or it'll be the worse for you!

Let me out, do you hear me?

Let me out of here!

Do you hear me? Let me out!

Let me out of this room!

- 3-4-7? - Oh, Charles? It's David Winter.

I'm sorry to disturb you at this time of the night, but I've got a bit of a problem.

Charles, thanks for coming.

Sorry to drag you out at this hour, but I didn't know what else to do.

That's all right. I'd only just got in, actually.

I've been up in London at a conference.

Well, thank God for that. Come on.

Billy!

So, David, what's it all about, then?

Well, I discovered this young woman

hiding in the barn after that terrible storm we had.

You had a storm?

I'll say we had. Anyway, when it had finished, I went out to calm Mary's horse.

And there was this creature. She said she was a witch,

and that she was going to be drowned, or burnt, or both, back in 16... something.

And that she'd managed to escape by transporting herself through time.

That's very clever of her.

- Did she try and put a spell on you? - No, thank God.

Where is she?

Upstairs.

She's in here.

It used to be the nursery, so there's bars on the window.

Lucinda?

Lucinda, I've brought someone...

Lucinda?

But I locked her in myself.

The door was still locked.

I had the key, you saw me.

Well, she's obviously not here now.

Lucinda!

Lucinda!

Mary not home?

No, she's been filming up in London.

Oh. Working late?