Yeah, it would've been something if they'd kept that ending.

He wrote the screenplay to the film, based on old Amazing Stories shorts he'd written, so I guess that was his choice. The first short, starring Denholm Elliott, is almost beat for beat swiped for Inside No. 9's Krampus episode, including the final sentence.

Yeah, I know Bloch had worked with Amicus Studios (maker of this film; Bloch joked that Amicus was apparently Latin for "no budget"). I wonder if the change was made because candies like those weren't in the UK? (Though to be honest, the only wax candies I remember as a kid were wax lips and Nick-L-Nips, which were wax bottles filled with sugary syrup.)

There is no blood dripping in any way in this movie, BUT it has Jon Pertwee playing a role Vincent Price turned down because the idea of vampirism transferring by simply putting on a vampire's cape was "silly".