I was actually just wondering to myself why I have such a blindspot for Hammer Films... Just as I had a blindspot for 80's films...
Oddly enough I think it comes down to my parents...
My dad LOVED a lot of the old black and white horror and scifi movies... Through him I saw the majority of the Universal horror films (Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Creature), along with Vincent Price movies (House on Haunted Hill) or other creepies like the original 13 Ghosts and The Innocents... For scifi he introduced me to Thing from Another World, the original Fly, The Incredible Shrinking Man the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the like...
So I was wondering, How is it that I've seen so many of what people consider "classic" horror films but I have a blindspot for Hammer? I think that maybe my parents just didn't like Hammer. It's not that I specifically avoided it or that they told me they weren't good movies - I was just never introduced to them and never sought them out.
Same thing with 80s horror - I distinctly remember my Dad saying of The Fly, The Thing, AND the Invasion of the Body Snatchers remakes, "Yes, they remade those movies, but they weren't very good..." So it took me a while to FINALLY watch the remakes - I LOVE The Thing, and The Fly (still need to see Body Snatchers though)...
And I'm pretty sure that he did NOT like slashers... While he showed me the Alien movies, he avoided Halloween, Black Christmas, and etc.
As for my Mom, well, she could suffer through the classics BUT couldn't watch more modern horror - Hated being scared.
Anyway - It's not that I've specifically avoided Hammer Films; I think that that's why they've never really been on my radar.
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Originally Posted by neverending
Newb was joking and so was I. The film I mentioned is a lost film that no one has ever seen, ever. Lighten up and LAUGH A LITTLE BIT!
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Newb's didn't bother me (made me chuckle)... And oddly enough, yours not
as much because it was an amusing follow-up to his comment PLUS you're
usually an ornery old coot, so it was in-character.
