Settling into his nearly two-decade run at Hammer Studios, Peter Cushing would star in the Terence Fisher directed adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. He would step […]
The Nanny from Hammer films is not a horror movie. It sounds like one, a very ominous one if you were to truly use your imagination, but there is no blood, guts, […]
Out of Hammer’s entire horror library, there is no film that is as much fun as The Shadow of the Cat, though it was probably not meant to be so. The reason […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Everybody wants to be immortal. Anyone that says any different is lying. To go through the years, to see all, to do all and to be free of death and disease, who […]
For a Hammer film, and with a title like this, The Old Dark House is not all that dark. Perhaps it would have seemed more so if the comedy had been toned […]
The Telltale Mind 