Hammer Horror

[ClassicHorror]

I love Hammer, Peter Cushing always does great as the hero, and Christopher Lee will always be a true Dracula (or the villian) to me.

My fav hammer film is Horror of Dracula...what about yours?

[filmmaker2]

Well, it doesn't get any better than "Horror of Dracula," does it? Strong on atmosphere, great acting, good score, nice special effects.

There's a still I have of Jonathan Harker's dessicated corpse lying in its coffin after being staked--they built a neat dummy for this, very gruesome. I don't know if this shot was featured in any existing cuts, but my guess is that it was in the Japanese theatrical release, if anywhere.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by ClassicHorror
I love Hammer, Peter Cushing always does great as the hero, and Christopher Lee will always be a true Dracula (or the villian) to me.

My fav hammer film is Horror of Dracula...what about yours?

I totally agree. I love Hammer......great actors, sets, scores.....
I guess my favorite would also be Horror of Dracula since it was Hammers first Dracula film. Chris Lee is the ultimate Dracula in my opinion. Peter Cushing was fabulous as well in all of his Hammer films....here's a list of my Hammer collection, not alot but I'm still working on it...:D

Horror of Dracula
Dracula Prince of Darkness
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
Scars of Dracula
Dracula AD 1972
Brides of Dracula
Satanic Rites of Dracula
Curse of Frankenstein
Kiss of the Vampire
Lust for a Vampire
Vampire Lovers ( Ingrid Pitt :p :D )
Countess Dracula ( Ingrid Pitt :p :D )
Dracula and the Undead ( documentary on vampires in movies )
Vamp ( documentary of female vampires in movies :D )
Flesh and Blood - Hammer Heritage of Horror

Like I said not much but I add to it every chance I get. I grew up watching these as a kid, still love them today :D
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[Gojira]

Hey Dallas dont forget Lee was also in The Devil rides out 1968 The Mummy 1959 Lee was also in Curse of Frankenstien 1957. There are so many horror movies that star Chris Lee and Peter Cushing. But my fave Hammer Mummy movie is Blood from the Mummys Tomb 1971 staring Valerie Leon. Hammer horror nothing like them.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by Gojira
Hey Dallas dont forget Lee was also in The Devil rides out 1968 The Mummy 1959 Lee was also in Curse of Frankenstien 1957. There are so many horror movies that star Chris Lee and Peter Cushing. But my fave Hammer Mummy movie is Blood from the Mummys Tomb 1971 staring Valerie Leon. Hammer horror nothing like them.

I have the 1957 Curse of Frankenstein. One of my favorites. I thought Hammers vision of the Frankenstein Monster was interesting. Hazel Court was quite hot in her day also. I need to get some Hammer Mummy films also...

[Gojira]

One thing about Hammer they sure had goodlooking actresses in their horror movies.

[filmmaker2]

PURRRRRRRRR MEOW Yeah!

[Gojira]

How about Caroline Munro she was in a couple of Hammer movies in 1974 she was in Captian Kronos Vampire Hunter and she was in 1972 Dracula AD. Caroline was so goodlooking she was a Bond girl in 1977 The Spy who Loved Me.

[The_Return]

Ive seen but one Hammer movie, but it left me wanting to see more from them. It was their 1959 Hound of the Baskervilles, with Cushing as Homes, and Lee as Henry Baskerville. Wow, that was an amazing movie:D

[The_Return]

Interesting Fact bout Baskervilles:

For his role as Sherlock Holmes he of course had to have a pipe but as Peter Cushing was either a non-smoker or didn't like the taste of the pipe, he kept a glass of milk always to hand to remove the taste.

Thats pretty neat

[42ndStreetFreak]

My Top 10 hammer's: Only the first 2 in order....

FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL

TWINS OF EVIL


SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA

DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE

HANDS OF THE RIPPER

FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED

CAPTAIN KRONOS

VAMPIRE LOVERS

TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA

DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by Gojira
One thing about Hammer they sure had goodlooking actresses in their horror movies.

Yes they did!!!!!!!! :p

[Gojira]

Taste the Blood of Dracula is one of my fave Dracula movie and so is The Devil Rides Out in 1968. I have got to rent Dr.Jekyll & Sister Hyde as it is one of the movies I missed watching back in the 70s.

[ki77y]

Wasn't 'Zombie Plague' a Hammer movie? I'm more of a Fulci-ist, so forgive the n00bishness. x.x

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by ki77y
Wasn't 'Zombie Plague' a Hammer movie? I'm more of a Fulci-ist, so forgive the n00bishness. x.x

It was. And aside from the 'dead rising' sequence that it gave us (something Romero never did of course) i thought it was extremely dull.
Zombies that go mining are NOT a thrilling idea.

[phantomstranger]

The "Horror Of Dracula" the greatest Vampire movie of them all!

[Gojira]

Yeah I could sink my teeth into Horror of Dracula that movie is a true classic. Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee it aint a real Dracula movie without those 2.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by phantomstranger
The "Horror Of Dracula" the greatest Vampire movie of them all!

Astonishingly overrated! As both an adaption (AWFUL) and as a stand alone film (dull and simplistic, the excellent finale aside).
But i won't get into this arguement again!
:D

[urgeok]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
Astonishingly overrated! As both an adaption (AWFUL) and as a stand alone film (dull and simplistic, the excellent finale aside).
But i won't get into this arguement again!
:D

maybe you might want to start your posts with 'in my opinion...'

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by urgeok
maybe you might want to start your posts with 'in my opinion...'

Maybe you want to mind your own fucking business!?
Replyto my posts when you have something marginally interesting to add and not just when you feel like having yet another sad dig.


And seeing as it was MY post i guess it's MY view. Thanks for this great contribution to the topic though.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
Maybe you want to mind your own fucking business!?
Replyto my posts when you have something marginally interesting to add and not just when you feel like having yet another sad dig.


And seeing as it was MY post i guess it's MY view. Thanks for this great contribution to the topic though.

sure thing ...

meanwhile you just stomp the shit all over the forum..
the one that isnt worthy of the wisdom you bestow.
yet you keep returning .

christ you are an arrogant prick.

you seem to appreciate Extremists posts - i suggest you take a page out of his book .. he makes allowances for other peoples tastes in a more tactful manner .. as if his opinions arent handed down by god himself ..
it's a sign of maturity ..

and what ever anyone posts is anyones business in a forum you fool.

now why dont you run along to 'last seen movie' and share with us the latest obscure z grade sex and violence flick you watched so we can oooh and ahhh with wonder at your greatness.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by urgeok
[B
yet you keep returning .

christ you are an arrogant prick.

now why dont you run along to 'last seen movie' and share with us the latest obscure z grade sex and violence flick you watched so we can oooh and ahhh with wonder at your greatness. [/B]


DEAR ME! Not getting any lately or something? You seem to have anger issues.

And I never left this forum. As not everyone is like you and your little group of 'we have a cute, pisshead moron for a mascot' club.

And jealousy about my wide experience of film really does not become you.
Thanks though...I hope you are learning a few things from my posts and links.

And let it be noted that it was YOU that decided to wade in and have a dig at me while I have been doing my best to ignore you. I guess you just NEED me here to vent your FRUSTRATIONS on.
So be glad I am here or you might explode and deprive the World of an idiot. And what a loss that would be.


Anyway...some of us were having a discusssion on the topic of this Thread.

And yes, I have noticed that your obsession with me that made you post your initial dig...Is your only contribution to this topic.
So, when you have watched some more films feel free to actually join in with the topic that this Thread is for.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
DEAR ME! Not getting any lately or something? You seem to have anger issues.

And I never left this forum. As not everyone is like you and your little group of 'we have a cute, pisshead moron for a mascot' club.

And jealousy about my wide experience of film really does not become you.
Thanks though...I hope you are learning a few things from my posts and links.

And let it be noted that it was YOU that decided to wade in and have a dig at me while I have been doing my best to ignore you. I guess you just NEED me here to vent your FRUSTRATIONS on.
So be glad I am here or you might explode and deprive the World of an idiot. And what a loss that would be.


Anyway...some of us were having a discusssion on the topic of this Thread.

And yes, I have noticed that your obsession with me that made you post your initial dig...Is your only contribution to this topic.
So, when you have watched some more films feel free to actually join in with the topic that this Thread is for.


the second you realize that you dont know everything, you will have begun to learn something.

i dont think you have it in you ..

by the way ,, you dont discuss .. you never have.
you lecture.

and i have learned a lot about your posts .. about you.
You're a guy who's convinced himself he's a lot smarter than he is .. but he constantly needs to reassure himself by trying to convince others he is on every horror forum he can find.

did you ever stop to wonder why you cant get along on the forums you listed as 'the bad ones' ?

i'm sure we'll get mentioned on your page as well .. and a few of us will get honerable mentions as bad/stupid people.

basically a long list of people who dont agree with you and also think you're just a pathetic blowhard ?

sound about right ?

[42ndStreetFreak]

You really are obsessed with me aren't you!

I wondered if you would reply YET AGAIN...and sure enough you just had to. I knew you could not help yourself.
I find this amusing.

And again...nothing about the topic of this Thread.
A topic YOU took the Thread away from.

So you would even spoil a Thread just to give your obsession with me (i really , really do smell jealousy here..sorry) another fix.

Look...leave it. Walk away. Let me go. Get on with your life.
Let me and others get back to the topic of this Thread, that you are trying to ruin with your blind obsession with me and everything i do.

JUST SAY NO.

Go on...

Don't reply yet again.....Just walk away.
Stalk someone else.

[Gojira]

Hi 42ndstreet why do you find Horror of Dracula to be somewhat dull? I still enjoy the movie and when I was a teen I found Count Dracula 1931 to be an awesome movie. But when I see it next to Horror of Dracula then the 1931 classic I will admit seems dull. Even though Horror of Drcula is still my all time Favorate Dracula movie the newer Bram Stokers Dracula in 1992 seems to make Horror of Dracula dull.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Anyway..........

Just upgraded my old (cut) UK VHS of "Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" for the supposed uncut new DVD.

I hope it is uncut though as the recent BBC screening,that DID replace a BBFC cut, cut both the shots of the topless women during the Vampire raid on the village. One of which was in the old cut version!

Complicated.

This is a pretty trshy effort but is much better than it's reputation.

Some nice Shaw Brothers swordplay (LOVE that clanging sound of metal on metal), Shaws great David Chiang, some groovy exploitation shots and a wonderful slow motion dead rising/Vampires on horseback sequence.
And a polite, but enjoyable turn by the great Peter Cushing.

Only let down by an awful Dracula and the typically dire Julie Ege as an unwanted and unlikeable character.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
You really are obsessed with me aren't you!

I wondered if you would reply YET AGAIN...and sure enough you just had to. I knew you could not help yourself.
I find this amusing.

And again...nothing about the topic of this Thread.
A topic YOU took the Thread away from.

So you would even spoil a Thread just to give your obsession with me (i really , really do smell jealousy here..sorry) another fix.

Look...leave it. Walk away. Let me go. Get on with your life.
Let me and others get back to the topic of this Thread, that you are trying to ruin with your blind obsession with me and everything i do.

JUST SAY NO.

Go on...

Don't reply yet again.....Just walk away.
Stalk someone else.

are you trying to use your psychic powers on me !! please stop !!
you are really getting to me now .. your mind powers, your way with words ...my god someone stop him before i swallow my own tongue !

my blind obsession !! that was a good one :)
everything you do !! hahahahah !!!

my god the way you can see right inside my head .. its its uncanny !!

yes i'm incredibly jealous .. i want to be you so bad i can taste it..


holy moses ... dont you ever get enough of yourself ?
you sound like a little kid...

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by Gojira
Hi 42ndstreet why do you find Horror of Dracula to be somewhat dull? I still enjoy the movie and when I was a teen I found Count Dracula 1931 to be an awesome movie. But when I see it next to Horror of Dracula then the 1931 classic I will admit seems dull. Even though Horror of Drcula is still my all time Favorate Dracula movie the newer Bram Stokers Dracula in 1992 seems to make Horror of Dracula dull.

I HATE "B. S. Dracula" anyway.

My beef with "Horror of..." is that it chooses to remove all the great moments from Stoker's novel and, worse, replaces them with nothing of interest.

And making Harker a Vampire Hunter not only makes an awful plot hole when he does not kill Dracula when he has a chance to.and instead moves away and stakes the Bride.
And llosing Harker as an 'innocent' loses all of the horror of his situation.

Harker is US. The reader or the viewer. We discover the horrors through him.

And generally I found the film lacked atmosphere (Drac's castle looked very nice, but had none of the decayed gothic atmosphere described in the novel) had a one dimensional dracula, was much to small scale and lacked something special.

I understand it's impact at the time!
OH YES. And the fact it was the first chance many viewers had ever had to see fangs and red blood was a plus then. And it's kick start of Hammer into the big time should be respected.

But the fun finale aside (LOVE THAT) it does nothing for me.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by urgeok
are you trying to use your psychic powers on me !! please stop !!


That you replied AGAIN after all my last post said to you is truly hysterical!

And AGAIN nothing to do with the topic we are in the middle of discussing! OR AT LEAST TRYING TO DISCUSS, YOU ARROGANT SEL CENTERED, OBSESSED PRICK.

Stalk another person you are jealous of, you sad little man.
:o zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Anyway, back to the topic some of us are trying to have a civilised and interesting discussion on...'Hammer Horror'.
That's if this guy lets us!!!!
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[urgeok]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
That you replied AGAIN after all my last post said to you is truly hysterical!

And AGAIN nothing to do with the topic we are in the middle of discussing! OR AT LEAST TRYING TO DISCUSS, YOU ARROGANT SEL CENTERED, OBSESSED PRICK.

Stalk another person you are jealous of, you sad little man.
:o zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Anyway, back to the topic some of us are trying to have a civilised and interesting discussion on...'Hammer Horror'.
That's if this guy lets us!!!!
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

i'm sorry .. did you just reply to my post ?

[taylorsmommy]

:D :D :D :D :D :D You guys are really cracking me up!

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by taylorsmommy
:D :D :D :D :D :D You guys are really cracking me up!

Yeah... Great. Wonderful. Amazing.


Back to the topic of films (why most people come here I assume...take note) and Hammer films in particular, if anyone who does have an interest has not been driven off.


Which of the infamous announced projects which never got past the poster stage would you have most liked to see?

I have to say that the most interesting looked like "Zeppelin vs Pteradactyl"!!
Quite how they would have drummed up a budget big enough NOT to make this look awful is beyond me!
But i sure would have loved to see the results!

[42ndStreetFreak]

Some interesting news for R2 fans....Some very obscure non-Horror Hammer product is getting a release fom 'DD Video' and they will include some short films as well!


Stolen Face/Danger List

Spaceways/Operation Universe

Four Sided Triangle/The Right Person/Three 'Early Hammer' picture galleries

Mask of Dust/various Goodwood newsreels

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by taylorsmommy
:D :D :D :D :D :D You guys are really cracking me up!


LMAO!!!! :D I think these two need to settle this like men.........:D
What do you say boys????? :D
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[42ndStreetFreak]

Well i gather that's this thread killed off then.

Well done, a credit to the genre.

[urgeok]

shave and a hair cut,
two bits

[ClassicHorror]

In 1936 a small English film company made history....they started to make horror films under the title of Hammer Films, their first film was Song of Freedom in 1936. In 1948 they made their second film Dick Barton, Special Agent.

The year that followed (1949) had a couple of titles: Doctor Morelle - The Case of The Missing Heiress, Dick Barton Strikes Back, The Adventures of P.C. 49, Meet Simon Cherry, and Room To Let.

1950 had 4 titles: Someone At The Door, What The Butler Saw, Dick Barton At Bay, and The Lady Craved Excitement.

1951 had 3 titles: To Have and To Hold, The Dark Light, and A Case For P.C. 49.

1952 had quite a few titles for an independent company: Death Of An Angel, The Last Page, Never Look Back, Wings of Danger, Stolen Face, Lady In The Fog, Mantrap, The Gambler and The Lady, and Spaceways.

1953: The Flanagan Boy
Face the Music
Blood Orange
Life with the Lyons
Murder by Proxy

1954: Five Days
The Men of Sherwood Forest
Mask of Dust
The Lyons in Paris
The Glass Cage
Break in the Circle
Third Party Risk

1955: The Quatermass Xperiment
The Right Person
A Man on the Beach

1956:Women Without Men
Copenhagen
X The Unknown
Dick Turpin - Highwayman

1957: The Curse of Frankenstein
The Steel Bayonet
Quatermass 2
The Abominable Snowman
Danger List
The Camp on Blood Island

1958: Clean Sweep
Horror of Dracula
Further Up the Creek
The Revenge of Frankenstein
The Hound of the Baskervilles

1959: Ten Seconds to Hell
Yesterday's Enemy
The Mummy
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Stranglers of Bombay
Hell is a City

1960: The Brides of Dracula
Sword of Sherwood Forest
The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll
The Full Treatment

1961: The Curse of the Werewolf
The Damned
Taste of Fear
Cash on Demand
The Pirates of Blood River

1962: The Phantom of the Opera
Captain Clegg
The Old Dark House

1963: The Scarlet Blade
The Devil-Ship Pirates
The Kiss of the Vampire
Nightmare

1964: The Evil of Frankenstein
The Gorgon
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Hysteria
Paranoiac

1965: Fanatic
She
The Brigand of Kandahar
The Nanny

1966: Dracula - Prince of Darkness
The Plague of the Zombies
Rasputin- The Mad Monk
The Reptile
The Witches
One Million Years B.C.
The Viking Queen
Frankenstein Created Woman
The Mummy's Shroud

1967: Quatermass and the Pit
A Challenge for Robin Hood
The Anniversary
The Vengeance of She
The Devil Rides Out

1968: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
The Lost Continent

1969: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Moon Zero Two
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Crescendo
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

1970: The Horror of Frankenstein
Scars of Dracula
The Vampire Lovers
Lust for a Vampire
Countess Dracula
Creatures the World Forgot

1971:On the Buses
Hands of the Ripper
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
Twins of Evil
Vampire Circus
Demons of the Mind

1972: Fear in the Night
Straight on Till Morning
Mutiny on the Buses
Dracula A.D. 1972
Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter
That's Your Funeral
Nearest and Dearest

1973:The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Love Thy Neighbour
Holiday on the Buses
Man at the Top

1974: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Shatter
Man About the House

2 YEARS LATER

1976: To the Devil a Daughter

3 YEARS LATER

1979: The Lady Vanishes

[Gojira]

Classic you forgot to mention Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was made by Toho studios and pehaps co produced by Hammer. Also Captian Kronos Vampire Hunter was made in 1974 not 1972.

[ClassicHorror]

oops ya it was 74'.

[Gojira]

I remember when my dad took me to go see Captian Kronos Vampire Hunter at the Drive in in 1974. I was 13 and when were buying tickets the person said there was going to be some nudity in the movie. My dad asked how much and the woman said not much just a minute of it. My dad said well thats ok then. Anyway we saw the movie and a very attractive Caroline Munro. Its been said that Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter was the 1st Vampire movie to have nudity in it.

[ClassicHorror]

Hmm, tough question maybe Le Vampyre (1913) had some nudity, you could shoot anything you wanted back then. Even death at a battlesite...so on so forth.

[Gojira]

That would be worth checking into to see if infact Le Vampyre was the 1st to have nudity.

[ClassicHorror]

Ya it would, you'd be amazed by some of the things in film history that were firsts.

[Gojira]

Classic I am always amazed at what movies came first in horror 1st Vampire movie 1st Werewolf movie 1st Mummy movie etc. And more often than not the movie you thought was the 1st wasnt.

[ClassicHorror]

Yup, that first cartoon was made in 1892-93 can you believe that??? Thats pretty amazing.

[Gojira]

Just a wild guess classic but was the 1st cartoon a cartoon about a Dinosarur? I know the 1st Dinosaur movie was made back in 1915 titled The Dinosaur and the Missing Link. The movie was made by Willis O Brian. Warner Brothers bought the film from OBrian then hired him to help make The Lost World in 1925.

[lee challenger]

Hammer was got me into horror when I was about six years old and my Dad used to let me stay up and watch the Friday night horror movie on TV every week. Films like Dracula and The Devil Rides Out had such an impact on me that I've been a fan ever since, I'm now 37. Although watching the old Hammer films now doesn't have the same effect as it used to I will always have great memories of the excitement and anticipation of watching Hammer films from a small boy and into my teens. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are genuine movie legends and Hammer gave me my first sexual fantasy when watching Vampire Lovers for the first time. Ingrid Pitt to a fast developing 11 year old was truly amazing! There are too many great films to try and pick an all time favourite but apart from the ones Ihave already mentioned, other titles to leave a lasting impression on me are Taste The Blood Of Dracula and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter. It's just a shame that there is nothing like Hammer in the modern day movie world today.
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[Gojira]

Hi LeeChallenger when did you see the Devil Rides Out on tv when you were a kid? I know your 37 years old and The Devil Rides Out a 1968 Hammer horror movie never came to theatres here in the USA. I only saw the Devil Rides Out on Tv just a few months ago on Turner Classic Movies. I was vey impressed by the movie and I think its far better than the Exorcist and the Omen combined. The Hammer movie that got me turned on was 1Million years BC with Raquel Welch oh yeah!! I saw that movie at the Drive in 1966 I was into Dinosaurs and my parents took me to see that.

[42ndStreetFreak]

"The Devil Rides Out" was hurt by the AWFUL effects though, esp that superimposed spider obviously climbing up a bit of glass!

[Gojira]

There are a few things I really enjoyed about the Devil Rides Out one was the scene with the Devil. I liked how the Devil had a goat head that really looked wicked cool.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by lee challenger
Hammer was got me into horror when I was about six years old and my Dad used to let me stay up and watch the Friday night horror movie on TV every week. Films like Dracula and The Devil Rides Out had such an impact on me that I've been a fan ever since, I'm now 37. Although watching the old Hammer films now doesn't have the same effect as it used to I will always have great memories of the excitement and anticipation of watching Hammer films from a small boy and into my teens. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are genuine movie legends and Hammer gave me my first sexual fantasy when watching Vampire Lovers for the first time. Ingrid Pitt to a fast developing 11 year old was truly amazing! There are too many great films to try and pick an all time favourite but apart from the ones Ihave already mentioned, other titles to leave a lasting impression on me are Taste The Blood Of Dracula and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter. It's just a shame that there is nothing like Hammer in the modern day movie world today.
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Hey there Bud, it is well known on this site who Ingrid Pitt belongs to.......that's my woman you're talking about. You do have good taste :D
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[Gojira]

DraculainDallas You take Ingrid Pitt I will take Caroline Munro

[lee challenger]

To Gojira in Texas , as I was born in 1967 and The Devil Rides Out was shown on the BBC here in England during the mid-seventies that makes me about 8 or 9 when I saw it.Still a kid in my book. As well as the Friday night horror on commercial TV we were also lucky enough to have the Saturday night horror double bill on BBC 2. The first film would be a black and white classic from the thirties and forties such as a Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff movie.This would be followed by a colour movie such as a sixties/seventies Hammer or Amicus production. Even quite new films at the time such as Race With The Devil and The Crazies were shown.Those were the days ,eh!

[Gojira]

Damn you Lee Challenger you lucky Bastard you got to see the Devil Rides Out on TV in England LOL Damn you I say Damn You LOL. That movie is pretty bitchin in my book I like it a great deal. I think you can get the Devil Rides Out on DVD at Movies Unlimited.
http://www.moviesunlimited.com/

[tom-tom]

Originally posted by ClassicHorror
I love Hammer, Peter Cushing always does great as the hero, and Christopher Lee will always be a true Dracula (or the villian) to me.

My fav hammer film is Horror of Dracula...what about yours?

I remember seeing Horror of Dracula when i was ten an i can remember loving it so much that i watched it twice more before i went to sleep...
Long live Chris Lee...the only dracula.

[taylorsmommy]

My favorite Hammer film is Taste the Blood of Dracula.

[Gojira]

I agreeTaste the Blood of Dracula is one of the better Dracula movie by far. I liked how it shows 3 civic leaders who are thought of as being good pillars of the comunity are infact greedy evil people. Yeah that movie rocks.

[42ndStreetFreak]

[Yeah that movie rocks.

Not least of which because of the great turn by Ralph Bates who should have been in for longer.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by Gojira
DraculainDallas You take Ingrid Pitt I will take Caroline Munro

It's a deal :D

[Gojira]

UMM yummy good I wouldnt mind eating Caroline Munro Alive oops did I say that outloud Again

[ClassicHorror]

Originally posted by Gojira
Just a wild guess classic but was the 1st cartoon a cartoon about a Dinosarur? I know the 1st Dinosaur movie was made back in 1915 titled The Dinosaur and the Missing Link. The movie was made by Willis O Brian. Warner Brothers bought the film from OBrian then hired him to help make The Lost World in 1925.

Yes the first cartoon was with a dinosaur. But the first animation....was really early, I'm gonna do a little more studying then I'll tell you.

[Gojira]

Wel the guy who probley invented animation was Frenchman Emil Reynaurd in 1877. He invented a machine called the Praxinscope and in 1882 he combined the use of the Praxinscope with a projector. Thomas Edison invented movies in 1891 and Frenchman Georges Melies made the 1st horror movie 5 years later in 1896.

[hammerfilms]

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If any of you are interested in investing in these new films (and we know how flush with cash you all are) then you can get more information from our web site
http://www.harvestpictures3.co.uk

We'll also check back here for your response.

Hope to hear from you soon.

[EXTR3MIST]

No

more

remakes



No

more

"up-to-date"

horror



There are other territories - if you can recognise them (and we're not going to tell you what they are), perhaps you will knock out some decent movies.

Peace.

:cool:

[Gojira]

I wouldnt mind seen a remake of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. but instead of the girl jumping in the lagoon in her swim suit in a remake she should go skinny dipping.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by hammerfilms
Hi people,

As some of you may be aware we are a film production company that has just entered into an agreement with Hammer Film Productions to start making Hammer films again.

At present we are fund raising with a view to start production on the first film in April.

We'd love to hear from you to find out what you would want from a modern Hammer film, do you want to see remakes of the old classics or a more up-to-date horror such as The Grudge or Saw?

If any of you are interested in investing in these new films (and we know how flush with cash you all are) then you can get more information from our web site
http://www.harvestpictures3.co.uk

We'll also check back here for your response.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Is this the organization Ingrid Pitt is involved with????

[zwoti]

Originally posted by DraculaInDallas
Is this the organization Ingrid Pitt is involved with????

remind me nearer april if you want her autograph

[ShankS]

Originally posted by hammerfilms
Hi people,

As some of you may be aware we are a film production company that has just entered into an agreement with Hammer Film Productions to start making Hammer films again.

At present we are fund raising with a view to start production on the first film in April.

We'd love to hear from you to find out what you would want from a modern Hammer film, do you want to see remakes of the old classics or a more up-to-date horror such as The Grudge or Saw?

If any of you are interested in investing in these new films (and we know how flush with cash you all are) then you can get more information from our web site
http://www.harvestpictures3.co.uk

We'll also check back here for your response.

Hope to hear from you soon.

I've had mail in the post from you guys, If I remember correctly. I skimmed through the info about the investments.

[urgeok]

ITS HAMMER TIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by zwoti
remind me nearer april if you want her autograph

Thanks zwoti....that would be great!!!!!! :D

[zwoti]

Originally posted by DraculaInDallas
Thanks zwoti....that would be great!!!!!! :D

well she's always at the show i go to....next one is in april

[urgeok]

who else is there ?
taking orders ? :)

[zwoti]

guest list at the moment memorabilia (http://www.memorabilia.co.uk/guests.asp)

[urgeok]

we should be having one here in Toronto ... they always seem to get the same guys : Tom Savini and Kane Hodder ...

but thats cool ...eventually i'll have Savini's autograph on every damn thing i own..

[ClassicHorror]

Originally posted by hammerfilms
Hi people,

As some of you may be aware we are a film production company that has just entered into an agreement with Hammer Film Productions to start making Hammer films again.

At present we are fund raising with a view to start production on the first film in April.

We'd love to hear from you to find out what you would want from a modern Hammer film, do you want to see remakes of the old classics or a more up-to-date horror such as The Grudge or Saw?

If any of you are interested in investing in these new films (and we know how flush with cash you all are) then you can get more information from our web site
http://www.harvestpictures3.co.uk

We'll also check back here for your response.

Hope to hear from you soon.

No.

[lilknivesguy]

If Harvest Pictures is serious about this venture, then perhaps resurrecting Hammer's "lost projects" would be a good place to start. At the very least, it would be a great anecdotal aside for this thread. I refer mostly to Jack Hunter's list in House of Horror.

Personally, I would love to see a return to period horror -- costume pieces with gothic sensibilities. That, and Ingrid Pitt cloned.

[filmmaker2]

I want to see a hundred computer-generated Ingrid Pitts fighting Agent Smith.

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by filmmaker2
I want to see a hundred computer-generated Ingrid Pitts fighting Agent Smith.

Now there's one sequel to the Matrix that would actually be worth seeing!

Let's see. One hundred computer generated Ingrid Pitts X 2, um...

On a serious note, I actually got to meet Ingrid Pitt at a Horror con last summer and she was delightful. Proof that age cannot destroy true beauty.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by lilknivesguy
If Harvest Pictures is serious about this venture, then perhaps resurrecting Hammer's "lost projects" would be a good place to start. At the very least, it would be a great anecdotal aside for this thread. I refer mostly to Jack Hunter's list in House of Horror.

Personally, I would love to see a return to period horror -- costume pieces with gothic sensibilities. That, and Ingrid Pitt cloned.

Watch it n00b, you're talking about my woman!!!!!! :mad:

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by lilknivesguy
On a serious note, I actually got to meet Ingrid Pitt at a Horror con last summer and she was delightful. Proof that age cannot destroy true beauty.

You got that right!!!!!!!!!!

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by DraculaInDallas
Watch it n00b, you're talking about my woman!!!!!! :mad:

He said he wanted her CLONED. As in brought back. As in a compliment!!
What part of 'cloned' do you not understand?

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
He said he wanted her CLONED. As in brought back. As in a compliment!!
What part of 'cloned' do you not understand?

I understand it just fine......do you understand Alan Shearer?? :D

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by DraculaInDallas
I understand it just fine......do you understand Alan Shearer?? :D

When did this become a footie forum? Now I'm really confused. I mean, a Dolly the Sheep reference, I could understand. Maybe I should have written, "That, and Ingrid Pitt to step out of my screen in way reminiscent of Purple Rose of Cairo."

Let's just say I've got a Carmilla/Mircalla/Marcilla Karnstein fixation.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Oh. So you understand 'cloned' but flamed him anyway? Right.

And i find it ironic that on a thread about 'Hammer' we have a 'Fuck you England' picture. Or do Americans not get irony?

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
Oh. So you understand 'cloned' but flamed him anyway? Right.

And i find it ironic that on a thread about 'Hammer' we have a 'Fuck you England' picture. Or do Americans not get irony?

lmao.....yeah I get it, that's why I posted it. RELAX....once you've been around here awhile you'll see my flames are mostly in jest, just having fun. No need to get your knickers in a twist :cool:

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by lilknivesguy
Let's just say I've got a Carmilla/Mircalla/Marcilla Karnstein fixation.


You have good taste!!!!!! :cool:

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by DraculaInDallas
You have good taste!!!!!! :cool:

Now, if I could only have hair! :(

http://www.littleknives.com/gallery/082804cdwipitt.jpg

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
... i find it ironic that on a thread about 'Hammer' we have a 'Fuck you England' picture. Or do Americans not get irony?

Oh, we get irony. Look who we put in the White House.

(geez, I hope the guy from Texas doesn't jump on me for that one ):D

[ClassicHorror]

Enough, lets not get carried away, and lets stick to the subject at hand.

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by ClassicHorror
Enough, lets not get carried away, and lets stick to the subject at hand.

Agreed, and thank you. No one responded to my note about Hammer's "lost projects" being resurrected. One of the more interesting proposals back in the late sixties (again, according to Hunter) was an adaptation of Matheson's I am Legend.

Don't want to get us started on Price in Last Man on Earth or Heston in Omega Man (unless someone really wants to, but this is the Hammer thread)... still, would have been nice to see Hammer tackle Matheson's work more faithfully.

[42ndStreetFreak]

Originally posted by lilknivesguy
Agreed, and thank you. No one responded to my note about Hammer's "lost projects" being resurrected.

I actually brought this up on page 3 and no one cared then either.......

""Which of the infamous announced projects which never got past the poster stage would you have most liked to see?

I have to say that the most interesting looked like "Zeppelin vs Pteradactyl"!!
Quite how they would have drummed up a budget big enough NOT to make this look awful is beyond me!
But i sure would have loved to see the results!""

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak
Back to the topic of films (why most people come here I assume...take note)...I have to say that the most interesting looked like "Zeppelin vs Pteradactyl"!!

Page 3 it was! Let's hope we can stay on target.

Indeed, "Zeppelin vs Pteradactyl" would have been the most eleborate of the planned productions, if only to envision how Hammer would have gone about the SFX. Probably a Harryhausen-esque stop action, move model sort of sequence. A shame. Would have been pretty cool.

I, personally, would have scripted it with Nazis. Nazis and dinosaurs. Now there's a combination.

[ClassicHorror]

I think hammer should just be left alone, no remakes, no nothing, just let it be preserved in time, making a modern day remake or sequel would take the magic away from these films.

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by ClassicHorror
I think hammer should just be left alone, no remakes, no nothing, just let it be preserved in time, making a modern day remake or sequel would take the magic away from these films.

"You can't go home again. You can't recover the past." Wolfe was right. So are you. But it's a fun diversion. If any studio seriously does plan on resurrecting the Hammer franchise, it will of course tarnish the memory. Especially since part of Hammer's charm was its Technicolor take on iconic monsters using classically trained actors and/or little known Eastern European beauties. Shocking then. Nostalgic now. What's the other oft-abused phrase? Can't catch lightning in a bottle twice? But let us have our fun. A man's escapes should exceed his taste or what's a forum for.

[ClassicHorror]

Its like taking the Mona Lisa, printing it in a computer, adding some new toches to it, and then selling it for 1,000,000 dollars.

Back then movies were about the craftsmanship, and effort put into them, the Hammer films are a landmark in horror films that stand for that.

They stand for something that films today don't, they stand for something that isn't made on a computer, they stand for our beloved genre. Don't let remakes touch this, don't let remakes put scratch marks into this.....

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by ClassicHorror
...Don't let remakes touch this, don't let remakes put scratch marks into this.....

No argument, but I think we lost track of the thread somewhere, or at least the tangent concerning Hammer's unfilmed "lost" projects. So we're not talking remakes as much as never-mades.
Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls was mentioned, as was (by me) I am Legend (aka Night Creatrues, as it might have been called, according to Hunter).

Speaking of Matheson, who wrote the script for Hammer's adaption of the Dennis Wheatley's Devil Rides Out, I recently came across a late 1990s script to a proposed sequel to a ner-made remake of Devil called Gateway to Hell. Robin Price who used to work for Hammer apparently made the script available to Wheatley fans through a tribute site.

Read all about it at
http://www.denniswheatley.info/films02.htm

I was never much a fan of Wheatley's stuff, but it's interesting to see that so many years after Devil Rides Out, there are scripts being floated about.

[ClassicHorror]

I also think the unfinished projects should be left alone, because they're like museum pieces..ehh but still I'd rather see an unfinished project then a remake.

[Gojira]

I disagree HorrorClassic I think unmade movie ideas if they have any merrit should be made.

[ClassicHorror]

Its ClassicHorror.

[Gojira]

LOL oops sorry

[ClassicHorror]

Whats everyone's fav hammer film?

Horror of Dracula for me.

[taylorsmommy]

Taste the Blood of Dracula

[42ndStreetFreak]

"Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell"

Followed by "Twins of Evil".

[zwoti]

always been partial to some quatermass or X the unknown

[Gojira]

Yeah Horror of Dracula and Taste the Blood of Dracula are pretty good. Taste the Blood of Dracula made me wonder if pillers of the comunity really ever engage in bad things.

[taylorsmommy]

Originally posted by Gojira
Yeah Horror of Dracula and Taste the Blood of Dracula are pretty good. Taste the Blood of Dracula made me wonder if pillers of the comunity really ever engage in bad things.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if they did!

[ClassicHorror]

Originally posted by Gojira
Yeah Horror of Dracula and Taste the Blood of Dracula are pretty good. Taste the Blood of Dracula made me wonder if pillers of the comunity really ever engage in bad things.

very good.

[Orange Man]

Here's a killer review of Dracula Has Risen that talks about the other films in the series.

http://www.quartertofour.com/bloodynews/reviews/dhrftgDVD.html

[kpropain]

Originally posted by Orange Man
Here's a killer review of Dracula Has Risen that talks about the other films in the series.

http://www.quartertofour.com/bloodynews/reviews/dhrftgDVD.html

Sigh once again...

[Orange Man]

Wow, the same pic in two different threads. You sure got me. :rolleyes:

[ADOM]

Originally posted by lilknivesguy

Indeed, "Zeppelin vs Pteradactyl" would have been the most eleborate of the planned productions, if only to envision how Hammer would have gone about the SFX. Probably a Harryhausen-esque stop action, move model sort of sequence. A shame. Would have been pretty cool.

I

I don't know, I envision more an "At the Earth's Core" approach. Stiff, paper-mache like dinosaurs, men in clumsy costumes and minuatures so big, the defy the term minuature. I love those movies. If someone did decide to finish a Hammer "lost project" I would love to see them strive to do it with practical and optical F/X. Forced perspective, puppets and that sort of thing.

As for my favorite Hammer Film I'll have to get back to you on that. It's too hard to choose.

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by ADOM
As for my favorite Hammer Film I'll have to get back to you on that. It's too hard to choose. [/B]

Not for me: hands down, I agree with ClassicHorror that Horror of Dracula was Hammer at its finest. A close second, however, would be The Vampire Lovers.

[filmmaker2]

I just saw this at the store yesterday and was tempted to buy it...

Dracula has Risen from the Grave....

Rated G! For Kid-Friendly Action.

My fave is Horror of Dracula. It gets better every time I pull it off the shelf. Well, no, that's an exaggeration. But it never gets any worse, and it gets better at least half of the time. Great movie and a dear favorite ever since that Halloween way back when I saw it for the first time. That was, like, thirty years ago, folks. Oh, my! Oh, my!!!

It's still way better than most of the steaming garbage piles they extrude out nowadays.

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by filmmaker2
I just saw this at the store yesterday and was tempted to buy it...

Dracula has Risen from the Grave....

Rated G! For Kid-Friendly Action.

My fave is Horror of Dracula. It gets better every time I pull it off the shelf. Well, no, that's an exaggeration. But it never gets any worse, and it gets better at least half of the time. Great movie and a dear favorite ever since that Halloween way back when I saw it for the first time. That was, like, thirty years ago, folks. Oh, my! Oh, my!!!

It's still way better than most of the steaming garbage piles they extrude out nowadays.

I agree 100%. I have all the Hammer Dracula films and I'm kind of partial to Horror Of Dracula myself, probably since it was the first one I saw too about 40 years ago!!!!!

* that hurt to type that!!!! :( *

[jenna26]

Brides of Dracula is my favorite, I think because of just one scene that just completely took me by surprise.
But Horror of Dracula is a close second, I never get tired of watching either one of those.

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by jenna26
Brides of Dracula is my favorite, I think because of just one scene that just completely took me by surprise.
But Horror of Dracula is a close second, I never get tired of watching either one of those.

I'll bite. What scene in Brides took you by surprise?

[jenna26]

Originally posted by lilknivesguy
I'll bite. What scene in Brides took you by surprise?

Anyone that hasn't seen the movie might not want to continue reading.....


The scene where Van Hesling is bitten and uses a branding iron (that is what was used right? I haven't seen it in awhile) on himself.....made me jump right out of my seat. And I had seen a lot of horror movies by the time I saw that one. ;)

[zwoti]

Originally posted by jenna26
Anyone that hasn't seen the movie might not want to continue reading.....


The scene where Van Hesling is bitten and uses a branding iron (that is what was used right? I haven't seen it in awhile) on himself.....made me jump right out of my seat. And I had seen a lot of horror movies by the time I saw that one. ;)

that would be correct.....

http://www.cinefantastico.com/terroruniversal/imagen/cushing01.jpg


...also good use of a windmill

[DraculaInDallas]

Originally posted by jenna26
Brides of Dracula is my favorite, I think because of just one scene that just completely took me by surprise.
But Horror of Dracula is a close second, I never get tired of watching either one of those.

Actually I enjoyed Brides Of Dracula myself even though Chris Lee wasn't in it. Nice sets on that one....

[Elvis_Christ]

I really like Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, opening is great. After reading this thread there's a lot I have to check out tho.

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by jenna26
The scene where Van Hesling is bitten and uses a branding iron...

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.

[taylorsmommy]

Originally posted by lilknivesguy
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.


One of my favorite Hammer films! I agree about the beggar rapist - it scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it.

[taylorsmommy]

All this talk of Hammer - I just went into my queue in Netflix and loaded up with every Hammer movie they have! Shame I only get 3 movies at a time!:D

[jenna26]

Originally posted by lilknivesguy
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...


Well, I admit that I always found Peter Cushing as Van Helsing more fascinating than Christopher Lee as Dracula. Lee made a great Dracula, don't get me wrong, but there was something about Cushing I found very appealing.

Oh and Curse of the Werewolf is also one of my favorites. But I have never seen Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.

[lilknivesguy]

Originally posted by jenna26
...
Oh and Curse of the Werewolf is also one of my favorites. But I have never seen Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.

My memory is hazy; last I saw Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed I think it was 2000 or 2001 on either SciFi or AMC. Now I'll have to go get the DVD! But I do recall it is a slower pace and much more serious than Hammer's other Frankenstein films.

SPOILER: no monster. Or should I say no creature. For it is Cushing's Baron Victor Frankenstein that is the monster here, moreso than ever. A total sadist, conducting an experiment with brains among unwilling participants.

Some critics apparently thought it was on the dull side, but I remember it being quite good. Of course, memory is kind. And I have a soft spot for Cushing, who gets a lot of screen time in this one. Others out there who have seen it? Your thoughts?

[ClassicHorror]

Yup, have fun watching em'.