Tag Archives: Peter Cushing

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 ...

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 ...

Happy Holidays from Diabolique Magazine! In this special collaborative piece, the team has picked out some of our favorite festive films to watch during this special time of year. Though some of the titles below may not appear on conventional Christmas lists, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Most will remember the first time that famed horror actors Vincent Price and Christopher Lee teamed up together as being the Edgar Allan Poe adapted, Gordon Hessler directed feature The Oblong Box. Their second teaming up, however, would prove to ...

Hammer aficionados hardly need a long-winded introduction from me on Brides of Dracula (1960), one of the British company’s greatest Gothic horrors. After the popular, if not critical, success of Hammer’s seminal Dracula (1958), the stakes were high, and director Terence Fisher had risen ...

Download MP3 Our sixth episode of A Real Horror Show is all about the great Hammer Horror classic films from Warner Bros. Join us and our very special guests Constantine Nasr, Ted Newsom, and Steve Vertlieb as we discuss the history ...

Last year, Diabolique Magazine, in conjunction with dvddrive-in.com coordinated an online petition to ask Warner Bros to release their classic Hammer Horror titles on blu-ray. Yesterday, the official announcement was finally made, and the initial set of titles is scheduled for ...

Hot on the heels of their Plague of the Zombies BD release, Anolis Entertainment is about to take a plunge into Hammer’s endlessly fascinating Frankenstein series with a new BD release of The Evil of Frankenstein (1964). Though not one of Hammer’s better Frankenstein efforts, it’s ...