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...horror films had their source in British literature. From the 1950s, horror films were largely associated with Hammer Films. Although they began as a small production company in the 1930s, they broke new ground when they made a series of science fiction films...
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The Resident: Juliet (Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby), a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone. She is being watched. She is being stalked. And no one is safe when she discovers the relentless horror on her doorstep. But how do you stop an evil that you can't see...until it's too late? Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Grey's Anatomy) and screen legend Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings) costar in this pulse-pounding shocker from famed horror studio Hammer Films (Let Me In).
LONDON (Reuters) - Ingrid Pitt, seductive queen of the Hammer horror films who survived a Nazi concentration camp as a girl, has died aged 73, a spokesman for her agent said on Wednesday. The actress started her screen career in the mid-1960s with roles in Spanish films and minor, uncredited parts in "Doctor Zhivago" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." She appeared in the 1968 classic "Where Eagles Dare" alongside Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and five years later in the mystery drama "The Wicker Man." But it was for her roles in erotic horror films "The Vampire Lovers" (1970) and "Countess Dracula" (1971) that she was best known in Britain. "Underrated as both an actress and a writer, Pitt was a warm but stubbornly enigmatic figure," said Marcus Hearn, a historian of Hammer horror movies and a friend of the actress. Pitt was also a writer, producing two novels set during the Peron era in Argentina and several horror-related works of fiction. She was born in Poland in 1937 to a mother of Jewish descent, and was interned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two at the age of five -- an experience she recounted in her autobiography "Life's a Scream." She told an interviewer in 2006 that she did not particularly enjoy watching horror movies. "I was in a concentration camp as a child and I don't want to see horror," Pitt said. "I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it ...
The Resident- HAMMER FILMS SNEEK TRAILER
Shane Briant Interview Part 4 of 9 Sunday October 17th, 2010 Bram Stoker Horror Film Festival Whitby Hammer Convention and Exhibition. Recorded by The Black Box Club. Shane tells of his role in the new film Singularity as well as his audition for The Hobbit.
Here are some of the most SEXY women that ever graced the silver screen! There will never be anything like them ever again! Todays HORROR films are nothing like the films that HAMMER made! Happy HALLOWEEN!
"Dirty Horror Romance For The Soul." Written by Wes Laurie. Directed by Sean Cain. Starring Ezra Buzzington, Jason Mewes, Lauren Walsh, Jack Forcinito, Monique Parent & Felissa Rose.
A VIDEO SLIDESHOW OF PROMO POSTERS FOR HAMMER FILMS.
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Part 1 (No copyright intended) of this fascinating Hammer film and one my all-time favorite Cushing films. Heres more about the film: The Abominable Snowman (aka The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas) is a 1957 British horror film, directed by Val Guest and starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing. The film is based on The Creature, a BBC Television play by writer Nigel Kneale, and follows the exploits of an English anthropologist with an American expedition as they search the Himalayas for the legendary Yeti. Kneale adapted his own television script into the film screenplay. Cushing, along with several other members of the cast, had also starred in the original version (the role of Tom Friend in the television play was taken by Stanley Baker). The film was produced by Hammer Film Productions and released on August 26, 1957 in the UK. It was subsequently released in the United States and throughout the world. Wikipedia
Director - Freddie Francis, Screenplay - John Elder [Anthony Hinds], Producer - Hinds, Photography - John Wilcox, Music - Don Banks, Special Effects - Les Bowie, Makeup - Roy Ashton, Art Direction - Don Mingaye. Production Company - Hammer. 1964. Cast: Peter Cushing (Baron Frankenstein), Peter Woodthorpe (Zoltan), Sandor Eles (Hans), Kiwi Kingston (The Monster), Katy Wild (Rena) Forced to flee when he is discovered performing an unholy experiment on a still warm corpse which was brought to him by a body-snatcher, Baron Frankenstein and his assistant, Hans, are able to escape to the Barons old castle, high in the mountains of Karlstaad. The castle is a shamble, and Frankenstein explains that it was wontanly wrecked by outraged villagers who had stormed the castle and pillaged it when they found out the Baron had created a living being--an uneartly creature--out of pieces of other beings. The creature, however, had managed to escape, only to die in the bitter cold of the mountain snows. To cheer themselves up, Frankenstein and Hans decide to attend a carnival in town. Although they are heavily disguised, the Baron gives himself away, and they are almost arrested, but they manage to escape by dodging into the tent of The Great Zoltan, a mystical hypnotist. Afraid to return to the castle, Frankenstein and Hans make their way deep into the mountains, where they meet a deaf-and-dumb beggar girl who befriends them. A violent storm threatens, and the girl beckons them into the ...
Drácula deixa sua terra natal, na Transilvânia, para ir a Londres em busca de novas vítimas. Seus hábitos noturnos chamam a atenção do Dr. Van Helsing, que se torna seu inimigo. Diretor(es): Terence Fisher Roteirista(s): Bram Stoker, Jimmy Sangster Elenco: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee (1), Michael Gough (1), Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, Olga Dickie, John Van Eyssen, Valerie Gaunt, Janine Faye¹, Barbara Archer, Charles Lloyd Pack, George Merritt (2), George Woodbridge, George Benson (1), Miles Malleson
This was one of the last masterpieces from Hammer Films of England. I love those foggy suspenseful night street scenes from movies like this. There was another good one in Dr.Jekyll and Sister Hyde. Here Anna, the daughter of Jack The Ripper, is being treated by a psychiatrist, but he can't control her. This is ~50 minutes into the film. Consider this a preview to promote purchase or rental. This film is not common, probably too strong for television, but well worth it for mature audiences. Just judging by title or cover people might assume it's a cheap slasher film. Hammer needs to be known.
Ra-Antef, an Egyptian Pharoah, is murdered by his brother during his reign in ancient Egypt. The pharoah is then mummified and buried with a medallion which supposedly contains the secret of immortality. Centuries later the tomb of Ra-Antef is violated despite the warnings of a loyal follower named Hashim Bey. Naturally all those involved with the opening of the mummys tomb must die as Ra-Antef prowls the misty streets of London. Alexander King, an obnoxious, wisecracking American showman, acquires the possesions of the mummy in hopes of showing them for profit in Europe and the United States. King unveils the mummy case and the curse that Ra-Antef will return to life is the tomb is desecrated, only to find it already empty. Later, King meets his death when he encounters the mummy at the top of a flight of stairs in the foggy London night. Presently the mummy kills Sir Giles Dalrymple, one of the members of the expedition which uncovered his tomb. Ra-Antef presses the man against the top of his desk, and then crushes his head with a heavy statuette. Finally realizing that a living mummy is at large, the authorities set a trap for him. Ra-Antef is caught in a net until he tears himself loose with superhuman strength. Hashim Bey places his head before the mummys feet and begs to be punished for his sin of betrayal, and the mummy obliges by placing his foot on his servants head and crushing it. Soon we learn that Adam Beauchamp, who had befriended the members of the ...
Dessa vez, a história traz o malevolente vampiro "Drácula", reencarnado na figura de um empresário milionário chamado DD Denham (Christopher Lee), envolvido numa conspiração satânica para tomar o poder no mundo. Um agente do serviço secreto britânico, Hanson (Maurice O'Connell), está investigando as ações misteriosas de uma seita demoníaca liderada pela sacerdotisa vampira Chin Yang (Barbara Lu Ying), que realiza rituais de satanismo na imensa mansão "Pelham House" nos arredores de Londres, um local de reuniões de um suposto grupo de pesquisas paranormais. Porém, ele é capturado e brutalmente espancado e torturado, por descobrir que os responsáveis pelos ritos de magia negra são poderosos cidadãos da sociedade inglesa. Uma vez conseguindo escapar ele passa as informações da investigação para seus superiores, o Inspetor Murray (Michael Coles) e Peter Torrence (William Franklyn), que solicitam auxílio ao antropólogo Prof. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing), renomado cientista especialista em ocultismo e vampirismo, cuja missão histórica de sua família sempre foi a de caçar vampiros.Eles descobrem uma trama diabólica envolvendo um grupo seleto de importantes homens formado por um militar, General Freeborne (Lockwood West), um empresário latifundiário, Lord Carradine (Patrick Barr), um ministro do serviço de segurança, John Porter (Richard Matthews), e um cientista, Prof. Julian Keeley (Freddie Jones), todos manipulados pelo empresário DD Denham, o próprio Drácula, para espalharem ...
A Condessa Drácula" (Countess Dracula, 71), com direção de Peter Sasdy e tendo a belíssima Ingrid Pitt na liderança do elenco, ao lado de Nigel Green e Sandor Elès. O filme inicia com o funeral do Conde Ferencz Nadasdy, um glorioso soldado que é casado com a Condessa Elisabeth Nodosheen (a estonteante Ingrid Pitt) e que tinha uma filha, Ilona (Lesley Anne-Down), enviada à Viena aos seis anos de idade para fugir da ameaça de invasão dos turcos na Hungria no final do século XVI. Enquanto a cerimônia é realizada, um rapaz chega atrasado em seu cavalo. É o jovem soldado Tenente Imre Toth (Sandor Elès), filho do General Toth, um grande amigo do Conde Nadasdy durante a guerra. Após o enterro, seus parentes, amigos e principais serviçais se reuniram no castelo para a leitura do testamento. Para o Capitão Dobi (Nigel Green), administrador do castelo durante muitos anos, foram destinadas as armas e uniformes de guerra pertencentes ao falecido. Para o erudito e historiador Mestre Fabio (Maurice Denham), a herança foi a enorme biblioteca do castelo, repleta de livros valiosos. O jovem Imre Toth ganhou de presente os estábulos e todos os cavalos. Já a condessa herdou o castelo e toda a fortuna da família, mas deveria dividir com sua filha Ilona. Visivelmente decepcionada e descontente com a notícia, a condessa começou a demonstrar os traços de sua personalidade perversa, intensificados ainda mais quando ela maltratava uma das camareiras, a jovem Teri (Susan Brodrick), que costumava ...
There's nothing that Victor Frankenstein loves more than electrical gizmos, surgical equipment, and brains brains brains! When on the Internet, visit Classic-Horror.com (classic-horror.com ). Clips used come from Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1969), and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1973). Rights to these films are owned by (in no particular order) Hammer, Warner Bros., Universal, Sony and Paramount. Music is by Queen. I just like juxtaposing these things together.
In this outrageous comedy of errors Sailer Albert Rufnell is torn between marrying pretty Shirley Hornett and having Ma Hornett for his mother-in-law!
Short Hammer film starring Michael Medwin, Michael Ripper and Donald Wolfitt 1955
1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Benhali tribesmen offensive against the colonial enemy. Starring Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed and Yvonne Romain Directed by John Gilling
OPERAZIONE PAURA in Italia, this film is known as KILL, BABY KILL! in the US Unfortunately, this public domain print, formatted for television distribution in the 1960s doesn't do justice to the use of vivid primary colors by director and cinematographer Mario Bava, but it doesn't fail to deliver the tension and moody surrealism of the original edit. Fabienne Dali, Giana Vivaldi, Piero Lulli, Luciano Catenacci, Micaela Esdra, Valerio Valeri Directed by Mario Bava Written by Mario Bava, Romano Migliorini and Roberto Natale Cinematography by Antonio Rinaldi Edited by Romana Fortini Music by Carlo Rustichelli Produced by Luciano Catenacci and Nando Pisani For more great Mario Bava films, please check out CALTIKI THE IMMORTAL MONSTER, BLACK SABBATH, BLACK SUNDAY, BARON BLOOD, PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, LISA AND THE DEVIL, THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD, and THE WHIP AND THE BODY (WHAT)! edgar allan poe, revenge, haunting, ghosts, "italian cinema" "cult film" b-movie "classic horror" castles "hammer film" "peter cushing" "euro horror" rome "pit and the pendulum" "the night evelyn came out of the grave" "the last man on earth" "patrimony" "patriarchy" "Gothic romance" "vampire's night orgy" "nightmare castle" "danse macabre" "devil's nightmare" "erika blanc" "terror creatures" "bloody pit of horror" "supernatural thriller" "suspense" "universal international" "the black castle" "horror of dracula" "premature burial" "the raven" "tales of terror" " tomb ...
CURSE OF WEREWOLF - 1961 HAMMER FILMS
THE MUMMY (TERENCE FISHER 1959)PETER CUSHING CHRISTOPHER LEE TRAILER
THE CREEPING UNKNOWN - THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (HAMMER FILMS TRAILERS)
Look at the WONDER WOMAN ROCKS Videos in my Channel if you Like this music ;-) HAMMER FILMS 1971 (Fan Tribute) SONG: The Motels (1986) Nightmares
This is the 4th Trailer for THE FANEX FILES-HAMMER FILMS, the 3rd in a series of 5 full length documentary films produced by Longthrow Multimedia International & Midnight Marquee Productions. This episode chronicles the History of Hammer Films, The Studio That Dripped Blood, through the eyes of the actors, writers, directors, producers & artists that appeared at The Fanex Film Conventions over the last decade.
From our friends at Fanex Films and Midnight Marquee: www.longthrow.com http www.midmar.com http This is the 3rd trailer for THE FANEX FILES-HAMMER FILMS, the 3rd in a series of 5 full length documentary films produced by Longthrow Multimedia International & Midnight Marquee Productions. This episode chronicles the History of Hammer Films, The Studio That Dripped Blood, through the eyes of the actors, writers, directors, producers & artists that appeared at The Fanex Film Conventions over the last decade. We would like to say you should check this out for Streebo's cameo - but in reality his knowledge of Hammer Films is minuscule compared to the actual experts assembled for this documentary. Watch it to learn from the rest of these folks that actually know what they're talking about!
From our friends at Fanex Films and Midnight Marquee: www.longthrow.com http www.midmar.com http This is the 1st trailer for THE FANEX FILES-HAMMER FILMS, the 3rd in a series of 5 full length documentary films produced by Longthrow Multimedia International & Midnight Marquee Productions. This episode chronicles the History of Hammer Films, The Studio That Dripped Blood, through the eyes of the actors, writers, directors, producers & artists that appeared at The Fanex Film Conventions over the last decade. We would like to say you should check this out for Streebo's cameo - but in reality his knowledge of Hammer Films is minuscule compared to the actual experts assembled for this documentary. Watch it to learn from the rest of these folks that actually know what they're talking about!
This is the 2nd trailer for THE FANEX FILES-HAMMER FILMS, the 3rd in a series of 5 full length documentary films produced by Longthrow Multimedia International & Midnight Marquee Productions. This episode chronicles the History of Hammer Films, The Studio That Dripped Blood, through the eyes of the actors, writers, directors, producers & artists that appeared at The Fanex Film Conventions over the last decade.
This is the 1st trailer for THE FANEX FILES-HAMMER FILMS, the 3rd in a series of 5 full length documentary films produced by Longthrow Multimedia International & Midnight Marquee Productions. This episode chronicles the History of Hammer Films, The Studio That Dripped Blood, through the eyes of the actors, writers, directors, producers & artists that appeared at The Fanex Film Conventions over the last decade.
See the next webisode first on Tuesdays and Fridays at 3.33pm at www.bbc.co.uk We went to talk to film producer Ben Grass about the Internet Zombie Movie. Ben has produced several horror projects, including Beyond The Rave, an online movie that was the first film in years from the revitalised legends of horror, Hammer Films. Ben gives his thoughts on Bryony's project, and offers some invaluable advice. We also catch up with IZM cameraman, James Smart. To see more of James Smart's work, check out: www.youtube.com
The philharmonia orchestra (Neil Richardson) - Music from the Hammer films www.terrorfantastico.com
Hammer Horror Original Australian Movie Posters featuring some of the great British Hammer films of the 60s with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee with the Dracula and Frankenstein films and some obscure Hammer titles dating back to the 30s. See more at www.moviemem.com
The original Trailer for the first Hammer Frankenstein Film
The People's Museum
The People's Museum
One of Hammer films scarier moments.
www.egs.edu Barbara Hammer lesbian artist, experimental filmmaker, director and feminist talking about the big picture film, creativity and process in documentary film. Barbara Hammer presenting Resisting Paradise and lecturing about meaning, information, originality, objectivity and personality of images; nature, human, body, reality; sensual, explicit images and films. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004. Barbara Hammer. Barbara Hammer was born in Hollywood, California. She graduated from University of California at Los Angeles with a Bachelor's degree in psychology, holds two Master's degrees from San Francisco State University, one in English literature and one in film, and took postgraduate classes in the field of digital media. In her early thirties, Hammer was married and teaching at a community college in Santa Rosa, California. Around this time she came out as a lesbian, after talking with another student in a Feminist group. Hammer is known for creating groundbreaking experimental films dealing with women's issues such as gender roles, lesbian relationships and coping with aging and family. Hammer is responsible for some of the first lesbian-made films in history, including Dyketactics 1974, in her own words a lesbian commercial focusing on lesbian lovemaking and the representation of touching. The filmography of ...
uranium-cafe.com Dracula Has Risen From The Grave Author JoeKarlosi from USA One of the best of the Hammer Dracula series, with Christopher Lee in commanding form as the nefarious bloodsucker. Coming in directly on the heels of "Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)," the King of Vampires is accidentally resurrected by a young priest and then conveniently makes a servant out of him. Lee angrily seeks revenge on the monsignor of the church (a good job by Rupert Davies) and pursues the Man of God's attractive niece (Veronica Carlson in her first of a few Hammer parts) as a means of evening the score. Dracula's scripted motivation for his revenge in this chapter seems a bit forced, but what really sets this entry apart from some of the others for me is the visage of religion hovering over the battle between good and evil. Here, the story centers on a young man named Paul, who is romancing the monsignor's niece but who is himself an atheist, and as such has more of a struggle not only in appeasing his girl's fundamentalist uncle, but also falters when it comes to satisfactorily dealing with the threat of Dracula himself; in the film's best scene (and one of Hammer's all-time finest), Paul tries to put an end to the Count but is unable to finish the job due to his religious convictions. I must put in a good word for director Freddie Francis here, who usually gets overlooked in the shadow of the more acclaimed Terence Fisher. Francis does an exceptional job rendering his story ...
A tribute to Hammer horror films and the women who helped make them great. Featuring Veronica Carlson, Caroline Munro, Valerie Leon, Madeline Smith, Yvonne Romain, Linda Hayden, Valerie Gaunt, and many more beautiful women of Hammer horror films. Clips from 'Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter', 'Blood From the Mummy's Tomb', 'Taste the Blood Of Dracula', 'Brides Of Dracula', 'Horror Of Dracula', 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave', 'Curse of the Werewolf', 'Vampire Lovers', 'Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell', 'Curse Of Frankenstein', and 'Dracula: 1971 AD'. Song is 'Hammer Horror" by Kate Bush... not because I particularly like the song or the artist, but because I couldn't think of another song that would go with this clip quite as well.
The Hammer Film Classic! With Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
The Hammer Film Classic starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
The Hammer Film Classic starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
The Hammer Film Classic starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
The Hammer Film classic Part 1 Starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
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a very rare trailer from the 1959 Hammer Horror The Mummy w/Christopher Lee.
A homage to the great British Hammer horror movies of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Music by Nightshift.
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