Hammer has made a lot of vampire films over the years, whether because they noticed that was where their bread as buttered, or simply because the films cost less to make. More […]
Nothing Quite Like The… – Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
Transformations – Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
In 1960, Hammer would try their hand at adapting the tale called Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and the result would be The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll with Paul Massie starring […]
Try Not To Interrupt… – The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula is interesting for one notable thing, which is not the actors, though Cushing and Lee are excellent, nor the direction by Alan Gibson which was pretty good, […]
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 […]
A Whole New Era – Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
Come 1972, Hammer decided it was time to inject some new blood as it was, into their Dracula franchise. So instead of having the property set in the past like all of […]
In Plain Sight – The Witches (1966)
When you think of witches, your mind will conjure up any number of images as they have been represented in numerous ways throughout the years in various forms of media. In this […]
The Witches (1966) – The Visuals
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 […]
Grey Matter – The Weekly Roundup! For Oct. 5-Oct. 11
A lot of stuff this week… Movies All For Love – The Gorgon (1964) He is Risen – Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966) You Thought Your Family Was Bad – Scream of […]
On The Hunt For… – The Abominable Snowman (1957)
The Abominable Snowman is a horror film from Hammer Studios of a different sort, one that still features a monster, in more than one form, and one that tries to look at […]
The Telltale Mind 