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 […]
Beware the… – Demons of the Mind (1972)
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 […]
From Within the Earth Comes… – X the Unknown (1956)
On a training exercise, a group of soldiers who are checking for radiation come across a large source of it down in a giant sandpit. After something within the earth causes an […]
Come One, Come All to the… – Vampire Circus (1972)
By 1972, everything that could really be said or done with a vampire had been and most of it by Hammer Studios. So with a lack of innovation and without rewriting the […]
Relax, It’s Only a… – Nightmare (1964)
The Jimmy Sangster-penned Nightmare from Hammer Studios in 1964 sees a young girl driven to madness and murder with the film then delivering a bit of a twist when her tormentors are […]
Like Father, Like Daughter – Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Hands of the Ripper starts out like a really bad made-for-T.V. movie with some questionable editing that immediately makes you wonder what the makers of this film were thinking. Not an auspicious […]
Look, For… – These are the Damned (1963)
Hammer had great success with horror over the course of its existence and when it decided to start mixing in elements of science-fiction, The Quatermass Xperiment being the more prominent one in […]
Only He Was… – The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
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 […]
