If there was one thing that Hammer was good at, it was creating a horror movie that would feature bloody murders with beautiful women left and right. One of the most beautiful […]
Oh to be Young Again – Countess Dracula (1971)
Grounded, Yet Still Sailing – Captain Clegg (1962)
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 […]
From Out of India Come… – The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
Captain Harry Lewis is a good man. He is an officer and a gentleman and when he learns of the many men and women that go missing every day in India; he […]
To Live Another Day – Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
After three films behind them, Hammer would release the fourth and final picture dealing with the subject of mummies in 1971 and it would be with a breath of fresh air as […]
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 […]
Beware the… – Demons of the Mind (1972)
Demons of the Mind, as both a horror movie and a Hammer film, is a strange beast. It is unlike almost anything the studio had released up until this point nor would […]
Do You Dare Risk… – The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964)
The plot to the first sequel in Hammer’s Mummy series, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, is nothing we have not seen before. If finds a group of Egyptologists discover a new […]
It Was the One-Armed Man! – Fear in the Night (1972)
Fear in the Night, a 1972 picture released by Hammer Films, was a psychological horror film that while good as a whole, did nothing to improve the genre and was slightly formulaic […]
Love Will Keep Us Together – The Mummy (1959)
As Hammer started to expand its horror output, much of what it did would mirror what Universal had done twenty to thirty years previous. Universal had a Frankenstein and a Dracula, so […]
The Telltale Mind 