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Originally posted by jenna26
The scene where Van Hesling is bitten and uses a branding iron...
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Ah yes, searing flesh. Right up there, but not quite close to the "curtains" scene from Horror of Dracula (the quintessential Hammer Horror sequence for my money). Hmmm.... I'm noticing a Peter Cushing connection among everyone's favorites...
...including Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Elvis_Christ (now ya got me thinking of peanut butter and banana flavored communion wafers), which I agree is often overlooked in the Hammer catalog. Darker and more sadistic than the other films we've been discussing (and later [1969]... which might explain the shift in sensibilities).
A coincidence that all three were directed by Terence Fisher? Let's throw out another Fisher flic: Curse of the Werewolf. Gotta tell ya: the rapist beggar at the beginning of that one creeped me out when I was a kid.