This Hammer production was released in the US as The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas and featured ‘token’ American actor Forrest Tucker, whose value to the…
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For a full ten minutes every member of the Taggart family talks about Mother – how formidable she is, how eccentric, how diabolic. On this,…
US State Department agent Kent Foster (Richard Travis) is on the trail of murderous traitor Nick Randall (Jim Davis) – who has been living in…
This cult Hammer horror based on Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars starred statuesque Valerie Leon as Margaret Fuchs – daughter of archaeologist Professor…
English adventurer Captain Skip Morgan (imported American star Forrest Tucker) is contacted by a “Major Hobart” who has an adventurous job for Morgan: go to…
While Christopher Lee worried about typecasting, Hammer went ahead anyway with this sequel in name only to its huge 1958 hit Dracula. Anaemic David Peel…
This Hammer production presented a story of Japanese cruelty to Allied prisoners of war during World War II. While it was based on a true…
In 18th-century England, the Royal Crown sends Royal Navy Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) and his crew to investigate reports of illegal smuggling and bootlegging in…
Handsome, debonair, dope-smoking vampire hunter and expert swordsman Captain Kronos (Horst Janson) and his eccentric hunchback assistant Professor Grost (John Cater) – an authority on…
Hammer made a range of films outside the horror genre and some of them are excellent, particularly this unusual thriller reteaming Peter Cushing and André…
Young Norman nobleman Robin de Courtenay (Barrie Ingham) is falsely accused by his cousin of murdering another cousin. His accuser is actually in league with…
The first Hammer film to be made at Bray Studios, Cloudburst follows Canadian John Graham (Robert Preston), who is living in London in 1946 and supervising the…
This fine moment from Hammer has a solid cast list, some nice period costumes, several heaving bosoms and an angry pitchfork-wielding mob – who strangely…
This was the classic that single-handedly revived traditional British Gothic and firmly placed the Hammer House of Horror on the global gore map. Peter Cushing…
Hammer’s stab at the werewolf legend may look tame compared to later computerised transformations, but this was shocking stuff in its day, and much horrid…
While on holiday in Weymouth, Dorset, American boat owner Simon Wells (Macdonald Carey) is violently mugged by teddy boy thug, King (Oliver Reed), and his…
In 19th century Bavaria, a small village full of pitchfork-wielding yokels and busty young ladies is dominated by a local manor on a hill. In…
The Duc de Richleau (Christopher Lee) discovers that his friend Simon (Patrick Mower) has come under the influence of a group of Satanists. When Simon…
It is July 1588 and, in the English Channel, the British Fleet has been battling for two days against the mighty Spanish Armada. Badly damaged,…
Two small military units – one British and one German – have apparently been forgotten by their respective High Commands on a remote uninhabited island…