Disc Details Scream Factory. Region A. Feature: 91 mins. Aspect ratio 1.85:1. The Movie In the ‘70s when Hammer Films were desperately heading in new directions in search of box office gold in an increasingly competitive genre film landscape, scribe and ...
Read More »Heroic Bloodshed: When Hammer met Shaw Brothers
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. The films of Hammer, that small family-run film studio by the Thames, have such an enduring appeal that even forty-odd years after the original company’s last movie, there is still a myriad of ...
Read More »Dracula: Prince of Darkness (US Blu-Ray Review)
Shout Factory’s new 4k restoration of Hammer’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness looks markedly different from Studio Canal’s 2k restoration, from some years ago. Originally released in 1966, Terence Fisher’s sequel to his own groundbreaking Horror of Dracula (1958) was shot back to ...
Read More »Horror of Dracula (1958 – US Blu-Ray Review)
Films, like music, belong to a certain time and place, and those that are immediately successful, as opposed to finding success gradually in aging like fine wine, tend to come out at the perfect time, when audiences are ready for ...
Read More »30 Days of Night: Hammer Horror’s Vampire Cults
“Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black unfathomable lakes. Still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to its close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires is dead. But his disciples live on to ...
Read More »A Hammer Blu-Ray Campaign Created by DVD Drive-In
A message from our friends at DVD Drive-In! Over a year ago, DVD Drive-In posted a campaign to show StudioCanal that there was interest in releasing their dormant 1970s EMI Hammer titles on Blu-ray: SCARS OF DRACULA, HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, LUST ...
Read More »Dracula (1958 – German Blu-Ray Review)
Films, like music, are of a certain time and place, and those that are immediately successful, as opposed to finding success gradually in aging like fine wine, tend to come out at the perfect time, when audiences are ready for ...
Read More »Captain Clegg (German Blu-Ray Review)
By 1962, Hammer star Peter Cushing, for fear of being typecast as a horror actor, was ready to tackle a non-horror role, and ironically it was Hammer that provided him with the perfect opportunity. Having been a big fan of ...
Read More »A Tribute to Basil Gogos: King of the Monster Kids
Something that has to be said and championed about the magic of late great artist Basil Gogos was his uncanny ability to both pay tribute to the makeup artists who designed and brought to life the cinematic monsters he painted ...
Read More »Ted Newsom: My Top 10 Hammer Films… and Why
There’s no need to praise Hammer Films. Been done. The explanation of why is something personal. It’s hard to explain to a generation raised on DVDs, and sad they have nothing exactly like the sacred experience called “Going to the ...
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