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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In Hammer’s 1962 production of The Phantom of the Opera, it would see Herbert Lom step into the shoes of the tragic figure and it would be both a captivating and haunting […]
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was made during Hammer’s twilight years and also happened to be co-produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The end result of that collaboration is a […]
Hammer has always been known as a house of horror. It is the one thing that immediately comes to mind when you think of the studio. Like any movie studio though, Hammer […]
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 […]
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 […]
Once in awhile, Hammer goes along and releases a small little gem of a film amongst all of their big monster movies, this time being Paranoiac starring Oliver Reed. It is a […]
The Telltale Mind 