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I love me some Hammer Horror. They have a style all their own and while it evolved over the years. Hammer has produced some of the cheesy, interesting, and symbolic horror films of all type. What is your favorite Hammer Horror film? http://www.hammerfilms.com/features/1373/hammer-films-for-dummies See anything recently like a Hammer Horror film? Share it here.
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I would loving love to talk about some Hammer horror, sir. The Reptile is an old favourite. The Mummy is an excellent Hammer film, w/ Christopher Lee as the monster. Then there's the Dracula and Frankenstein cycles, along with one-offs like Curse of the Werewolf and The Gorgon, expanding on the classic Universal monster blueprint with more sex, more violence and in colour! Hammer brought about some of the most stylish horror films of the 60s. And Michael Ripper is the fuckin' best. I'd also like to submit Roger Corman 's Edgar Allan Poe cycle as an amazing alternative for the goon who's worn out on Hammer films. Often starring the inimitable Vincent Price, they're well worth a glance. Corman's at his absolute best when it comes to these flicks. I'd also highly recommend the Tomb of Ligeia and Corman's take on Lovecraft, The Haunted Palace, which also boasts a brilliant score. Any other people in to this stuff at all?
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Dec 2, 2015 07:42
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E: nm
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Dec 2, 2015 13:06
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Vampire Circus is a can't miss. It was on Netflix a few years ago.  I generally like the AIPs from this era better though, Phibes, Theater of Blood, and the like.
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May 10, 2016 02:49
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Abominable Dr Phibes is amazing. Inspector  copper ever.
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May 10, 2016 03:02
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I always loved this poster. "Obviously" "Dracula is Dead and Well and Living in London" would also probably have been the best Dracula film title ever, if they had used it.
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May 10, 2016 19:55
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Chairman Capone posted:I always loved this poster. "Obviously" One of my favorite posters of all time and I haven't even seen the movie! Gonna remedy that soon. edit-- YouTube has it for $2.99! Five minutes in and I'm fuckin' sold. Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 20:10 on May 10, 2016 |
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May 10, 2016 20:01
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Chairman Capone posted:I always loved this poster. "Obviously"
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May 10, 2016 20:19
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COOL CORN posted:One of my favorite posters of all time and I haven't even seen the movie! Gonna remedy that soon. Not sure how experienced you are with Hammer, but Dracula Has Risen From the Grave is pretty representative of what you can expect. So if you dig it then there's about 30 more movies you should probably check out. The Best of the Best were all directed by Terence Fisher though.
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May 10, 2016 20:25
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Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was so good. Would recommend kung fu vampires forever.
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May 11, 2016 23:42
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Raxivace posted:I always thought this poster felt like an ad from a 90's gaming magazine and not a movie poster from the 1960's. It's great. Movie's good too. Hahaha yeah it totally does
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May 12, 2016 01:10
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TCM ran a bunch of these for October, especially with Christopher Lee being star of the month. One of the better ones was Taste the Blood of Dracula, which has a unique setup- Dracula is revived by an Alistair Crowley type who enlists the aid of a bunch of stuffy town fathers who happen to spend one night a month at the local Hellfire club, they purchase Dracula's remains from Veruca Salt's father, the Crowley one drinks his blood and the rest freak out and beat him to death, so when Dracula rises he sets out to destroy the men who killed his "servant". Also cool was Hound of the Baskervilles with Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes. Which, you can just imagine how good a bit of casting that is.
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Nov 5, 2016 04:45
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I caught several on TCM... The Curse of Frankenstein - Probably my favorite. I liked the way they made Frankenstein into an out right villain. The Revenge of Frankenstein - Bizarre sequel, but interesting. The Blood of Dracula - Kind of threadbare. Christopher Lee makes a great Dracula, but it seems understated. The Mummy - Also kind of threadbare, but it's a beautifully shot film and the score is fantastic. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Good Sherlock adaptation. Cushing does make for a great Holmes! Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - Kind of dumb and that rape scene really sticks out as awful. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave - I barely remember anything, but it was alright. I do like how lurid and gory these get. It's weird seeing a 50s/60s film with that much blood. Just kind of wish they had better writing.
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Nov 5, 2016 04:53
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Honestly my true favorites are the Quatermass films. The first is a suspenseful monster flick with a nice touch of pathos, Quatermass 2 is a downright epic alien infiltration story, and Quatermass and the Pit is glorious full-color chaos. Also as far as I can tell they were first in just using "[Title] 2" as the sequel title.
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Nov 5, 2016 05:03
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fryQyFU0Pps
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Nov 5, 2016 05:39
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You can't discuss Hammer with out talking about the Hammer Horror TV anthology which we all got to see this October on Scream Stream by Lurdiak. They are all wonderful ( Brian Cox and Peter Cushing!!!!!!) so yeah. They are excellent.
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Nov 5, 2016 05:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqOqPbnxj9A
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Nov 5, 2016 12:56
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The wife and I love a good HHoH marathon every so often, so cheesy and entertaining. My favourites are the ones my babysitter let me me watch when I was about 10. 'The House that Bled to Death' and 'The Thirteenth Reunion' in particular were loving terrifying at the time! Looking back now at the sets, cars, fashions etc we just find them very nostalgic. http://www.hammerhouseofhorrortvseries.co.uk/hhbled.html http://www.hammerhouseofhorrortvseries.co.uk/hhreunion.html
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Nov 6, 2016 15:05
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Ramadu posted:Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was so good. Would recommend kung fu vampires forever. I watched this last night and I had a great time. I would love to see this or something like it done again by the people behind Ong Bak or something. Also Dracula 1972, or whatever it's called, is worth a watch. It is truly the grooviest cringefest imaginable.
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Nov 7, 2016 04:50
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My favorite series is still the Frankenstein series because Cushing.
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Nov 7, 2016 07:06
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Chiming in with the TCM crowd. I caught Scream of Fear for the first time and was really surprised it was a Hammer film. It was evidently one of a handful of black and white psychological thrillers they produced and wasn't at all what I've come to expect from the studio. It did have Christopher Lee, though!
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Nov 7, 2016 07:52
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Hollismason posted:My favorite series is still the Frankenstein series because Cushing. Cushing is easily one of my favourite actors. I watched a shitload of Hammer this October to write some articles for a site and any time he popped up I knew I was in for a good time. He's great as a kind, pure-hearted person and great as a total rear end in a top hat but my favourite Cushing is the combo of playful prick that he hits in stuff like The Hound of the Baskervilles and Frankenstein Created Woman. Das Boo posted:Chiming in with the TCM crowd. I caught Scream of Fear for the first time and was really surprised it was a Hammer film. It was evidently one of a handful of black and white psychological thrillers they produced and wasn't at all what I've come to expect from the studio. Paranoiac is worth checking out if you haven't seen it. Oliver Reed puts in a bonkers performance that's captivating. LesterGroans fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Nov 7, 2016 07:58
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Cushing definitely reaches peak rear end in a top hat in Frankenstein Created Woman. I was laughing my rear end off the whole time, he just fucks people over left and right.
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Nov 7, 2016 15:17
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The whole Dr. Frankenstein character arc, even in the lovely one where he gratuitously rapes a woman, is hilarious.
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Nov 7, 2016 15:30
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Basebf555 posted:Cushing definitely reaches peak rear end in a top hat in Frankenstein Created Woman. I was laughing my rear end off the whole time, he just fucks people over left and right. For real - he rigs a murder trial just to get what he wants, and he still can't resist being a total bitch to everyone while he's on the stand. Chief of Police: Do you expect us to believe this childish rubbish, sir? Do you take us for fools? Baron Frankenstein: Yes.
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Nov 8, 2016 05:07
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Das Boo posted:I caught Scream of Fear for the first time and was really surprised it was a Hammer film. It was evidently one of a handful of black and white psychological thrillers they produced and wasn't at all what I've come to expect from the studio. Definitely check out The Nanny from 1965 if you can get your hands on it - it's absolutely chilling. I had a similar reaction to it being Hammer the first time I saw it ages ago as I was so conditioned to them being lurid, colour, supernatural things (that I also love). It's good to see so much Cushing love around here. Not only does he elevate even the trashiest stuff he appeared in, but, as my dad gets older, he looks more and more like him (there was always a resemblance). I don't think pa is terribly impressed when I make the comparison, but I think it's an honour! Sadly, I don't appear to have got any of the lookalike genes apart from the nose 
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Nov 8, 2016 13:06
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Liberal Idiot posted:For real - he rigs a murder trial just to get what he wants, and he still can't resist being a total bitch to everyone while he's on the stand. Its just so great how he's not conflicted at all about what he's doing, at no point is there a moment where he thinks "what have I become" or any of that nonsense. He's just like "yea, I'll need a fresh brain so lets make sure this innocent guy gets executed for murder. Ok, job done, but wait, you say that his girlfriend committed suicide in her grief? Well hey, we needed a fresh body anyway to complete the experiment! Things are really falling into place aren't they!"
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Nov 8, 2016 15:23
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No love for THE DEVIL RIDES OUT? it's awesome and it afforded Lee one of his few heroic roles. He's great in it, which makes it a shame when he disappears for long stretches (to research magic spells).
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Nov 9, 2016 18:37
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DrVenkman posted:No love for THE DEVIL RIDES OUT? it's awesome and it afforded Lee one of his few heroic roles. He's great in it, which makes it a shame when he disappears for long stretches (to research magic spells). The Devil Rides Out is one of the very few Lee/Fisher films I haven't seen yet, its been on my short list forever. I'd happily pay $5 to rent it but I've never seen it available for streaming anywhere.
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Nov 9, 2016 18:52
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Great films. I sure do love those Hammer women. 
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Nov 10, 2016 07:02
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DrVenkman posted:No love for THE DEVIL RIDES OUT? it's awesome and it afforded Lee one of his few heroic roles. He's great in it, which makes it a shame when he disappears for long stretches (to research magic spells). The Goat of Mendes! The Devil himself! The Devil Rides Out is absolutely wonderful.
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Nov 10, 2016 10:59
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Watching The Gorgon now. Peter Cushing's badass facial hair is making me feel quite inferior.
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Nov 13, 2016 01:26
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Yeah there are a few Hammer horror films on Shudder and you should check it out because if you like classic horror it pretty much can't be beat right now for selection. ( I do not work for Shudder). Also, even though this is a Hammmer Horror thread it should be mentioned that Amicus was a competitor to Hammer Horror and while I would not say on the same level as Hammer it still produced some really great gothic horror films. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Nov 13, 2016 |
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Nov 13, 2016 06:01
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Hollismason posted:Yeah there are a few Hammer horror films on Shudder and you should check it out because if you like classic horror it pretty much can't be beat right now for selection. ( I do not work for Shudder). Speaking of Amicus,The House That Dripped Blood is a personal favourite of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYiiHEjE83U The trailer is typically over the top (Voodoo! Vixens!) but the movie is much less so. It's an anthology with 4 shorts about one house, Lee and Cushing are in it, and Jon Pertwee is the star of the final one.
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Nov 13, 2016 23:45
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The most common and memorable ones have been mentioned all ready (much love for Cushing's downright evil take on Frankenstein, it's nothing like most versions but it's a whole lot of fun; The Devil Rides Out is probably Christopher Lee's finest leading horror considering he's more of a cameo/side character in The Wicker Man) so gonna mention a couple of favourites not brought up yet. Not sure if they were actually Hammer, might be Amicus ones too but hey ho. From Beyond The Grave A series of short stories linked around an antiques shop run by kindly old Peter. Each story basically amounts to someone coming in, seeing something they like and trying to con the shopkeeper out of it/outright steal it when he's not looking. Naturally, each item in the shop is actually a diabolical magical relic of some kind that brings doom on the owner in one way or another. The final story starred Ian Ogilvy, a likeable actor popular at the time for The Saint series and Witchfinder General (another classic horror tale with Vincent Price in full on megabastard mode). Because it was him, I was actually quite upset to see him get his comeuppance... He buys an old, demonic looking door from the shop, installs it at home and he and his wife find it can open to a creepy room with some kind of murderous psycho pirate guy or something. They're frantically trying to fight him off and escape and the story cuts to Peter in the shop, counting the money he was paid for it. Turns out the customer was an honest man who paid the agreed price so he and his wife manage to escape alive and unscathed, unlike everyone else before them - hurrah! Horror Express Not Hammer but it may as well be. Peter and Chris team up with Telly Savalas (playing a Cossack!) on a trans-Siberian train ride with The Thing on board. It goes from host to host, boiling brains, making zombies out of its victims and generally being rather unpleasant. It's exactly as glorious as it sounds.
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Nov 14, 2016 12:50
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The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas is a great movie and it's about time for me to watch it again.
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Nov 15, 2016 06:24
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HannibalBarca posted:The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas is a great movie and it's about time for me to watch it again. Oh yeah that's another good early one. The studio's mostly known for the technicolor Gothic horrors but there's some great black and white stuff too.
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Nov 15, 2016 07:02
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sean10mm posted:Abominable Dr Phibes is amazing. Sentinel Red posted:From Beyond The Grave Basebf555 posted:Cushing definitely reaches peak rear end in a top hat in Frankenstein Created Woman. I was laughing my rear end off the whole time, he just fucks people over left and right. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The whole Dr. Frankenstein character arc, even in the lovely one where he gratuitously rapes a woman, is hilarious.
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Nov 23, 2016 04:02
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Is there a box set or collection or other way for US audiences to get a hold of the whole Hammer Frankenstein saga?
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Nov 23, 2016 04:10
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Unfortunately no, the films were sold to US distributors individually, so US rights are owned by several different studios and there's no way to compile them all into one set. They're all available in the states, but you'll have to hunt them down one by one. Edit: Curse of Frankenstein-- Warner Revenge of Frankenstein-- Sony/Columbia Evil of Frankenstein-- Universal Frankenstein Created Woman-- not sure Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed-- Warner Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell-- Paramount (but now controlled by Warner?) Horror of Frankenstein-- not sure, but who cares, absolutely awful and not part of the official series (it's a semi-remake of Curse and does not have Cushing as the doc) Sir Nose fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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