Peter Cushing stars as a man who goes from pirate to priest to bootlegger in Captain Clegg, an adventure/horror hybrid of a film much unlike anything that Hammer would normally release and […]
Grounded, Yet Still Sailing – Captain Clegg (1962)
He Suffers… – The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
When one has made a werewolf film, it is hard not to be compared to the benchmark that was established with, at least during this point in time, The Wolf Man. Now […]
To Stop the Mummy, You Must Have… – The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)
Three years after The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, Hammer would release The Mummy’s Shroud, the third entry into their mummy series and it would be a big improvement over the previous […]
He’s Handsome, He’s Hypnotic, He’s… – Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Hammer was by no means shy about adapting work from other forms of media, whether it be famous characters from literature like Frankenstein or Dracula, from myth like The Gorgon or from […]
Swan Song – Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
The final installment of Hammer’s Frankenstein series of films finds VIctor alive and well, having survived the fire of the last picture, and taking up residence in a mental institution which is […]
And Then… – Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
After the strange reboot that was not a reboot called The Evil of Frankenstein, comes this film which was thankfully, much better. It is a standalone movie, being just another chapter in […]
Starting Over – The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
The Evil of Frankenstein is the third film in Hammer’s Frankenstein series and the worst one to date. It can also lay claim to being one of the worst movies that Hammer […]
More Than Woman – The Reptile (1966)
It was not too often that Hammer would dip into its bag of practical effects for a movie, more often than not relying upon the psychological or a set of fangs to […]
Blood, Bats And The… – Scars of Dracula (1970)
Dracula, who died upon the altar of the reconstituted church in the last film, returns to life with the help of a friendly bat who manages to drip blood into the vampire’s […]
Go On… – Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Taste the Blood of Dracula is by far, the silliest entry in Hammer’s series featuring the undead lord of vampires, but even at its silliest, it is still an exceptionally fine horror […]
The Telltale Mind 