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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 ...

Distributed by Universal-International, the Hammer film Brides of Dracula featured Molly Arbuthnot (1908 – 2001), as the head of costume design. A prolific artist, she was credited as a designer for nearly sixty films. Her main speciality was lavish Hammer ...

The fine folks at Mill Creek Entertainment have got a new collection of Blu-ray horror classics heading our way.  Titled the Hammer Films Double Feature – each volume will bring us two selections from the Hammer library.  Volume One was ...

The vampire is one of the most iconic archetypes in horror cinema. Like the folklore, the vampire is a shape-shifter. It can be a repellent, rodent-like creature as depicted in F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent masterpiece Nosferatu or a beautiful, sex-crazed nymphet like ...

  1971’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song is widely regarded as having initiated the Blaxploitation genre; although an argument can be made that Shaft, also released in 1971 and in production before the release of Sweet Sweetback, equally contributed. They proved ...

When commentators discuss the horror output of Hammer Studios there tends to be a distinction, between their ‘classic’ pre-seventies output, and then their latter ‘experimental’ period that began around the early seventies and lasted until the studio’s hiatus in 1979.  ...

Thanks to MPI, Dan Curtis’s British made-for-TV film, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1973), has finally made it to Blu-ray, complete with a restored print from the original 35mm negative and some new special features. The master of ‘70s television horror, Curtis ...

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Six full-cast original audio dramas from Hammer Films were released on July 26, marking Hammer’s first-ever excursion into audio horror. Hammer Chillers: Series One presents all-new contemporary tales of unease in the tradition of the 1980 Hammer’s House of Horrors ...

There is magic to be found in movie locations, and for Hammer fans, the epicenter of that magic is London, England, home of the legendary “studio that dripped blood” that likewise includes everything from sprawling parks to spooky graveyards. It’s ...