He said he wanted her CLONED. As in brought back. As in a compliment!!
What part of 'cloned' do you not understand?

I understand it just fine......do you understand Alan Shearer?? :D

When did this become a footie forum? Now I'm really confused. I mean, a Dolly the Sheep reference, I could understand. Maybe I should have written, "That, and Ingrid Pitt to step out of my screen in way reminiscent of Purple Rose of Cairo."

Let's just say I've got a Carmilla/Mircalla/Marcilla Karnstein fixation.

Oh. So you understand 'cloned' but flamed him anyway? Right.

And i find it ironic that on a thread about 'Hammer' we have a 'Fuck you England' picture. Or do Americans not get irony?

lmao.....yeah I get it, that's why I posted it. RELAX....once you've been around here awhile you'll see my flames are mostly in jest, just having fun. No need to get your knickers in a twist :cool:

You have good taste!!!!!! :cool:

Now, if I could only have hair! :(

http://www.littleknives.com/gallery/082804cdwipitt.jpg

Oh, we get irony. Look who we put in the White House.

(geez, I hope the guy from Texas doesn't jump on me for that one ):D

Enough, lets not get carried away, and lets stick to the subject at hand.

Agreed, and thank you. No one responded to my note about Hammer's "lost projects" being resurrected. One of the more interesting proposals back in the late sixties (again, according to Hunter) was an adaptation of Matheson's I am Legend.

Don't want to get us started on Price in Last Man on Earth or Heston in Omega Man (unless someone really wants to, but this is the Hammer thread)... still, would have been nice to see Hammer tackle Matheson's work more faithfully.

I actually brought this up on page 3 and no one cared then either.......

""Which of the infamous announced projects which never got past the poster stage would you have most liked to see?

I have to say that the most interesting looked like "Zeppelin vs Pteradactyl"!!
Quite how they would have drummed up a budget big enough NOT to make this look awful is beyond me!
But i sure would have loved to see the results!""

Page 3 it was! Let's hope we can stay on target.

Indeed, "Zeppelin vs Pteradactyl" would have been the most eleborate of the planned productions, if only to envision how Hammer would have gone about the SFX. Probably a Harryhausen-esque stop action, move model sort of sequence. A shame. Would have been pretty cool.

I, personally, would have scripted it with Nazis. Nazis and dinosaurs. Now there's a combination.

I think hammer should just be left alone, no remakes, no nothing, just let it be preserved in time, making a modern day remake or sequel would take the magic away from these films.

"You can't go home again. You can't recover the past." Wolfe was right. So are you. But it's a fun diversion. If any studio seriously does plan on resurrecting the Hammer franchise, it will of course tarnish the memory. Especially since part of Hammer's charm was its Technicolor take on iconic monsters using classically trained actors and/or little known Eastern European beauties. Shocking then. Nostalgic now. What's the other oft-abused phrase? Can't catch lightning in a bottle twice? But let us have our fun. A man's escapes should exceed his taste or what's a forum for.

Its like taking the Mona Lisa, printing it in a computer, adding some new toches to it, and then selling it for 1,000,000 dollars.

Back then movies were about the craftsmanship, and effort put into them, the Hammer films are a landmark in horror films that stand for that.

They stand for something that films today don't, they stand for something that isn't made on a computer, they stand for our beloved genre. Don't let remakes touch this, don't let remakes put scratch marks into this.....

No argument, but I think we lost track of the thread somewhere, or at least the tangent concerning Hammer's unfilmed "lost" projects. So we're not talking remakes as much as never-mades.
Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls was mentioned, as was (by me) I am Legend (aka Night Creatrues, as it might have been called, according to Hunter).

Speaking of Matheson, who wrote the script for Hammer's adaption of the Dennis Wheatley's Devil Rides Out, I recently came across a late 1990s script to a proposed sequel to a ner-made remake of Devil called Gateway to Hell. Robin Price who used to work for Hammer apparently made the script available to Wheatley fans through a tribute site.

Read all about it at
http://www.denniswheatley.info/films02.htm

I was never much a fan of Wheatley's stuff, but it's interesting to see that so many years after Devil Rides Out, there are scripts being floated about.

I also think the unfinished projects should be left alone, because they're like museum pieces..ehh but still I'd rather see an unfinished project then a remake.

I disagree HorrorClassic I think unmade movie ideas if they have any merrit should be made.

Its ClassicHorror.

LOL oops sorry

Whats everyone's fav hammer film?

Horror of Dracula for me.

Taste the Blood of Dracula

"Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell"

Followed by "Twins of Evil".

always been partial to some quatermass or X the unknown

Yeah Horror of Dracula and Taste the Blood of Dracula are pretty good. Taste the Blood of Dracula made me wonder if pillers of the comunity really ever engage in bad things.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if they did!

very good.

Here's a killer review of Dracula Has Risen that talks about the other films in the series.

http://www.quartertofour.com/bloodyn...dhrftgDVD.html

Sigh once again...

Wow, the same pic in two different threads. You sure got me. :rolleyes:

I don't know, I envision more an "At the Earth's Core" approach. Stiff, paper-mache like dinosaurs, men in clumsy costumes and minuatures so big, the defy the term minuature. I love those movies. If someone did decide to finish a Hammer "lost project" I would love to see them strive to do it with practical and optical F/X. Forced perspective, puppets and that sort of thing.

As for my favorite Hammer Film I'll have to get back to you on that. It's too hard to choose.

Not for me: hands down, I agree with ClassicHorror that Horror of Dracula was Hammer at its finest. A close second, however, would be The Vampire Lovers.

I just saw this at the store yesterday and was tempted to buy it...

Dracula has Risen from the Grave....

Rated G! For Kid-Friendly Action.

My fave is Horror of Dracula. It gets better every time I pull it off the shelf. Well, no, that's an exaggeration. But it never gets any worse, and it gets better at least half of the time. Great movie and a dear favorite ever since that Halloween way back when I saw it for the first time. That was, like, thirty years ago, folks. Oh, my! Oh, my!!!

It's still way better than most of the steaming garbage piles they extrude out nowadays.

I agree 100%. I have all the Hammer Dracula films and I'm kind of partial to Horror Of Dracula myself, probably since it was the first one I saw too about 40 years ago!!!!!

* that hurt to type that!!!! :( *

Brides of Dracula is my favorite, I think because of just one scene that just completely took me by surprise.
But Horror of Dracula is a close second, I never get tired of watching either one of those.

I'll bite. What scene in Brides took you by surprise?

Anyone that hasn't seen the movie might not want to continue reading.....


The scene where Van Hesling is bitten and uses a branding iron (that is what was used right? I haven't seen it in awhile) on himself.....made me jump right out of my seat. And I had seen a lot of horror movies by the time I saw that one. ;)

that would be correct.....

http://www.cinefantastico.com/terror.../cushing01.jpg


...also good use of a windmill

Actually I enjoyed Brides Of Dracula myself even though Chris Lee wasn't in it. Nice sets on that one....

I really like Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, opening is great. After reading this thread there's a lot I have to check out tho.