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Hammer Horror
I love Hammer, Peter Cushing always does great as the hero, and Christopher Lee will always be a true Dracula (or the villian) to me.
My fav hammer film is Horror of Dracula...what about yours? |
Well, it doesn't get any better than "Horror of Dracula," does it? Strong on atmosphere, great acting, good score, nice special effects.
There's a still I have of Jonathan Harker's dessicated corpse lying in its coffin after being staked--they built a neat dummy for this, very gruesome. I don't know if this shot was featured in any existing cuts, but my guess is that it was in the Japanese theatrical release, if anywhere. |
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I guess my favorite would also be Horror of Dracula since it was Hammers first Dracula film. Chris Lee is the ultimate Dracula in my opinion. Peter Cushing was fabulous as well in all of his Hammer films....here's a list of my Hammer collection, not alot but I'm still working on it...:D Horror of Dracula Dracula Prince of Darkness Taste the Blood of Dracula Dracula Has Risen From the Grave Scars of Dracula Dracula AD 1972 Brides of Dracula Satanic Rites of Dracula Curse of Frankenstein Kiss of the Vampire Lust for a Vampire Vampire Lovers ( Ingrid Pitt :p :D ) Countess Dracula ( Ingrid Pitt :p :D ) Dracula and the Undead ( documentary on vampires in movies ) Vamp ( documentary of female vampires in movies :D ) Flesh and Blood - Hammer Heritage of Horror Like I said not much but I add to it every chance I get. I grew up watching these as a kid, still love them today :D . . |
Hey Dallas dont forget Lee was also in The Devil rides out 1968 The Mummy 1959 Lee was also in Curse of Frankenstien 1957. There are so many horror movies that star Chris Lee and Peter Cushing. But my fave Hammer Mummy movie is Blood from the Mummys Tomb 1971 staring Valerie Leon. Hammer horror nothing like them.
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One thing about Hammer they sure had goodlooking actresses in their horror movies.
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Good Looking Actresses
PURRRRRRRRR MEOW Yeah!
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How about Caroline Munro she was in a couple of Hammer movies in 1974 she was in Captian Kronos Vampire Hunter and she was in 1972 Dracula AD. Caroline was so goodlooking she was a Bond girl in 1977 The Spy who Loved Me.
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Ive seen but one Hammer movie, but it left me wanting to see more from them. It was their 1959 Hound of the Baskervilles, with Cushing as Homes, and Lee as Henry Baskerville. Wow, that was an amazing movie:D
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Interesting Fact bout Baskervilles:
For his role as Sherlock Holmes he of course had to have a pipe but as Peter Cushing was either a non-smoker or didn't like the taste of the pipe, he kept a glass of milk always to hand to remove the taste. Thats pretty neat |
My Top 10 hammer's: Only the first 2 in order....
FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL TWINS OF EVIL SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE HANDS OF THE RIPPER FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED CAPTAIN KRONOS VAMPIRE LOVERS TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE. |
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Taste the Blood of Dracula is one of my fave Dracula movie and so is The Devil Rides Out in 1968. I have got to rent Dr.Jekyll & Sister Hyde as it is one of the movies I missed watching back in the 70s.
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Wasn't 'Zombie Plague' a Hammer movie? I'm more of a Fulci-ist, so forgive the n00bishness. x.x
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Zombies that go mining are NOT a thrilling idea. |
The "Horror Of Dracula" the greatest Vampire movie of them all!
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Yeah I could sink my teeth into Horror of Dracula that movie is a true classic. Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee it aint a real Dracula movie without those 2.
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But i won't get into this arguement again! :D |
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Replyto my posts when you have something marginally interesting to add and not just when you feel like having yet another sad dig. And seeing as it was MY post i guess it's MY view. Thanks for this great contribution to the topic though. |
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meanwhile you just stomp the shit all over the forum.. the one that isnt worthy of the wisdom you bestow. yet you keep returning . christ you are an arrogant prick. you seem to appreciate Extremists posts - i suggest you take a page out of his book .. he makes allowances for other peoples tastes in a more tactful manner .. as if his opinions arent handed down by god himself .. it's a sign of maturity .. and what ever anyone posts is anyones business in a forum you fool. now why dont you run along to 'last seen movie' and share with us the latest obscure z grade sex and violence flick you watched so we can oooh and ahhh with wonder at your greatness. |
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DEAR ME! Not getting any lately or something? You seem to have anger issues. And I never left this forum. As not everyone is like you and your little group of 'we have a cute, pisshead moron for a mascot' club. And jealousy about my wide experience of film really does not become you. Thanks though...I hope you are learning a few things from my posts and links. And let it be noted that it was YOU that decided to wade in and have a dig at me while I have been doing my best to ignore you. I guess you just NEED me here to vent your FRUSTRATIONS on. So be glad I am here or you might explode and deprive the World of an idiot. And what a loss that would be. Anyway...some of us were having a discusssion on the topic of this Thread. And yes, I have noticed that your obsession with me that made you post your initial dig...Is your only contribution to this topic. So, when you have watched some more films feel free to actually join in with the topic that this Thread is for. |
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the second you realize that you dont know everything, you will have begun to learn something. i dont think you have it in you .. by the way ,, you dont discuss .. you never have. you lecture. and i have learned a lot about your posts .. about you. You're a guy who's convinced himself he's a lot smarter than he is .. but he constantly needs to reassure himself by trying to convince others he is on every horror forum he can find. did you ever stop to wonder why you cant get along on the forums you listed as 'the bad ones' ? i'm sure we'll get mentioned on your page as well .. and a few of us will get honerable mentions as bad/stupid people. basically a long list of people who dont agree with you and also think you're just a pathetic blowhard ? sound about right ? |
You really are obsessed with me aren't you!
I wondered if you would reply YET AGAIN...and sure enough you just had to. I knew you could not help yourself. I find this amusing. And again...nothing about the topic of this Thread. A topic YOU took the Thread away from. So you would even spoil a Thread just to give your obsession with me (i really , really do smell jealousy here..sorry) another fix. Look...leave it. Walk away. Let me go. Get on with your life. Let me and others get back to the topic of this Thread, that you are trying to ruin with your blind obsession with me and everything i do. JUST SAY NO. Go on... Don't reply yet again.....Just walk away. Stalk someone else. |
Hi 42ndstreet why do you find Horror of Dracula to be somewhat dull? I still enjoy the movie and when I was a teen I found Count Dracula 1931 to be an awesome movie. But when I see it next to Horror of Dracula then the 1931 classic I will admit seems dull. Even though Horror of Drcula is still my all time Favorate Dracula movie the newer Bram Stokers Dracula in 1992 seems to make Horror of Dracula dull.
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Anyway..........
Just upgraded my old (cut) UK VHS of "Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" for the supposed uncut new DVD. I hope it is uncut though as the recent BBC screening,that DID replace a BBFC cut, cut both the shots of the topless women during the Vampire raid on the village. One of which was in the old cut version! Complicated. This is a pretty trshy effort but is much better than it's reputation. Some nice Shaw Brothers swordplay (LOVE that clanging sound of metal on metal), Shaws great David Chiang, some groovy exploitation shots and a wonderful slow motion dead rising/Vampires on horseback sequence. And a polite, but enjoyable turn by the great Peter Cushing. Only let down by an awful Dracula and the typically dire Julie Ege as an unwanted and unlikeable character. |
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you are really getting to me now .. your mind powers, your way with words ...my god someone stop him before i swallow my own tongue ! my blind obsession !! that was a good one :) everything you do !! hahahahah !!! my god the way you can see right inside my head .. its its uncanny !! yes i'm incredibly jealous .. i want to be you so bad i can taste it.. holy moses ... dont you ever get enough of yourself ? you sound like a little kid... |
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My beef with "Horror of..." is that it chooses to remove all the great moments from Stoker's novel and, worse, replaces them with nothing of interest. And making Harker a Vampire Hunter not only makes an awful plot hole when he does not kill Dracula when he has a chance to.and instead moves away and stakes the Bride. And llosing Harker as an 'innocent' loses all of the horror of his situation. Harker is US. The reader or the viewer. We discover the horrors through him. And generally I found the film lacked atmosphere (Drac's castle looked very nice, but had none of the decayed gothic atmosphere described in the novel) had a one dimensional dracula, was much to small scale and lacked something special. I understand it's impact at the time! OH YES. And the fact it was the first chance many viewers had ever had to see fangs and red blood was a plus then. And it's kick start of Hammer into the big time should be respected. But the fun finale aside (LOVE THAT) it does nothing for me. |
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And AGAIN nothing to do with the topic we are in the middle of discussing! OR AT LEAST TRYING TO DISCUSS, YOU ARROGANT SEL CENTERED, OBSESSED PRICK. Stalk another person you are jealous of, you sad little man. :o zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Anyway, back to the topic some of us are trying to have a civilised and interesting discussion on...'Hammer Horror'. That's if this guy lets us!!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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:D :D :D :D :D :D You guys are really cracking me up!
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Back to the topic of films (why most people come here I assume...take note) and Hammer films in particular, if anyone who does have an interest has not been driven off. 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! |
Some interesting news for R2 fans....Some very obscure non-Horror Hammer product is getting a release fom 'DD Video' and they will include some short films as well!
Stolen Face/Danger List Spaceways/Operation Universe Four Sided Triangle/The Right Person/Three 'Early Hammer' picture galleries Mask of Dust/various Goodwood newsreels |
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LMAO!!!! :D I think these two need to settle this like men.........:D What do you say boys????? :D . . . . . |
Well i gather that's this thread killed off then.
Well done, a credit to the genre. |
shave and a hair cut,
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In 1936 a small English film company made history....they started to make horror films under the title of Hammer Films, their first film was Song of Freedom in 1936. In 1948 they made their second film Dick Barton, Special Agent.
The year that followed (1949) had a couple of titles: Doctor Morelle - The Case of The Missing Heiress, Dick Barton Strikes Back, The Adventures of P.C. 49, Meet Simon Cherry, and Room To Let. 1950 had 4 titles: Someone At The Door, What The Butler Saw, Dick Barton At Bay, and The Lady Craved Excitement. 1951 had 3 titles: To Have and To Hold, The Dark Light, and A Case For P.C. 49. 1952 had quite a few titles for an independent company: Death Of An Angel, The Last Page, Never Look Back, Wings of Danger, Stolen Face, Lady In The Fog, Mantrap, The Gambler and The Lady, and Spaceways. 1953: The Flanagan Boy Face the Music Blood Orange Life with the Lyons Murder by Proxy 1954: Five Days The Men of Sherwood Forest Mask of Dust The Lyons in Paris The Glass Cage Break in the Circle Third Party Risk 1955: The Quatermass Xperiment The Right Person A Man on the Beach 1956:Women Without Men Copenhagen X The Unknown Dick Turpin - Highwayman 1957: The Curse of Frankenstein The Steel Bayonet Quatermass 2 The Abominable Snowman Danger List The Camp on Blood Island 1958: Clean Sweep Horror of Dracula Further Up the Creek The Revenge of Frankenstein The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959: Ten Seconds to Hell Yesterday's Enemy The Mummy The Man Who Could Cheat Death Stranglers of Bombay Hell is a City 1960: The Brides of Dracula Sword of Sherwood Forest The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll The Full Treatment 1961: The Curse of the Werewolf The Damned Taste of Fear Cash on Demand The Pirates of Blood River 1962: The Phantom of the Opera Captain Clegg The Old Dark House 1963: The Scarlet Blade The Devil-Ship Pirates The Kiss of the Vampire Nightmare 1964: The Evil of Frankenstein The Gorgon The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Hysteria Paranoiac 1965: Fanatic She The Brigand of Kandahar The Nanny 1966: Dracula - Prince of Darkness The Plague of the Zombies Rasputin- The Mad Monk The Reptile The Witches One Million Years B.C. The Viking Queen Frankenstein Created Woman The Mummy's Shroud 1967: Quatermass and the Pit A Challenge for Robin Hood The Anniversary The Vengeance of She The Devil Rides Out 1968: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave The Lost Continent 1969: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed Moon Zero Two Taste the Blood of Dracula Crescendo When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth 1970: The Horror of Frankenstein Scars of Dracula The Vampire Lovers Lust for a Vampire Countess Dracula Creatures the World Forgot 1971:On the Buses Hands of the Ripper Blood from the Mummy's Tomb Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde Twins of Evil Vampire Circus Demons of the Mind 1972: Fear in the Night Straight on Till Morning Mutiny on the Buses Dracula A.D. 1972 Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter That's Your Funeral Nearest and Dearest 1973:The Satanic Rites of Dracula Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell Love Thy Neighbour Holiday on the Buses Man at the Top 1974: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires Shatter Man About the House 2 YEARS LATER 1976: To the Devil a Daughter 3 YEARS LATER 1979: The Lady Vanishes |
Classic you forgot to mention Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was made by Toho studios and pehaps co produced by Hammer. Also Captian Kronos Vampire Hunter was made in 1974 not 1972.
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oops ya it was 74'.
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I remember when my dad took me to go see Captian Kronos Vampire Hunter at the Drive in in 1974. I was 13 and when were buying tickets the person said there was going to be some nudity in the movie. My dad asked how much and the woman said not much just a minute of it. My dad said well thats ok then. Anyway we saw the movie and a very attractive Caroline Munro. Its been said that Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter was the 1st Vampire movie to have nudity in it.
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