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 ...

Episode 3 “SHOCK… SHOCK… SHOCK!!!” The Sound Of Fear looks at the world of gothic horror, taking in the music of James Bernard and Hammer horror, the Corman Poe cycle, and the approach to realist shock horror. Episode Credits: Narrated by ...

Regardless of how you feel about the film, there is no denying The Vampire Lovers marked an important change in direction for Hammer; the film being one of the first to usher in a fresh, sexually charged era for the ...

When first browsing through Bruce G. Hallenbeck’s new chronicle of American-International Pictures, Rock ‘n’ Roll Monsters: The American-International Story (Hemlock Books), it’s obvious you don’t have to be a cineaste to enjoy this read. A majority of Baby Boomers and ...

Our friends at the DVD Drive-In have put up a page to show StudioCanal that there is interest in releasing their dormant Hammer titles on Blu-ray: SCARS OF DRACULA, HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER ...

Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973) has already seen two superlative blu-ray releases—one in Australia and one in England from Icon Home Entertainment, (with the UK release being the more comprehensive of the two, in terms of extra features). Now, ...

In 1971, Hammer Films, who had jolted the horror genre back to life in Britain fourteen years earlier with The Curse of Frankenstein (dir. Terence Fisher, 1957), were still prolific, producing (some might say with dangerous complacency) traditional, Gothic costume ...

Prior to making a bundle of money and receiving the Queen’s Award to Industry with their now-classic Gothic horror films, full of breasts and gory color, Hammer Films made several successful black & white science fiction pictures which initially helped to ...

Download MP3 | Download OGG In the inaugural episode of Daughters of Darkness, Kat and Samm explore the history of lesbian vampire films. This first episode of three begins by examining the lesbian vampire from her origins in eighteenth century Gothic literature, ...

Britain’s Amicus Film Productions may not have invented the omnibus film format, but they did more to popularize it during the 1960’s, than any other company producing Gothic horror films. Their first effort in the genre, Dr. Terror’s House of ...