Blackly comic gender-bending reworking on Robert Louis Stevenson’s oft-filmed classic; this was Hammer’s third variation on the tale after The Ugly Duckling and The Two Faces of Dr…
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Hammer Films’ revision of Bram Stoker’s famous novel is one of the great horror films and one of the most memorable British films. Director Terence…
This ill-conceived attempt at updating Dracula sees the vampire (once again played by Christopher Lee) materialise in Swinging London. He looks sorely out of place…
It is 1895. Four travellers are left abandoned at nightfall at a lonely crossroad in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe by a local coach…
Young American Pat Carroll (Stefanie Powers) arrives in London to marry her fiancé Alan Glentower (Maurice Kaufmann) and decides to pay a visit to the…
Newly-married Peggy Heller (Judy Geeson) has just recovered from a nervous breakdown. Her schoolteacher husband, Bob Heller (Ralph Bates), takes her from London to the…
When scientists and best friends Bill Leggatt (Stephen Murray) and Robin Grant (John Van Eyssen) fall in love with the same girl (Barbara Payton), they…
Director Terence Fisher’s swansong (and Hammer Films’ sixth and final Frankenstein film) finds the Baron (Peter Cushing) as the resident doctor in the famous insane…
The fourth film in Hammer’s Frankenstein series begins with a dead and frozen Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) being re-animated by his colleague Dr Hertz (Thorley…
Baron Frankenstein blackmails a young asylum doctor named Karl (Simon Ward) into releasing the insane Dr Frederick Brandt (George Pravda) so that he can learn…
Up The Creek proved such a success that this sequel was rushed into production by Hammer and debuted in the same year. Val Guest remained…
In the movies, few brand names are as instantly recognised or as redolent of a certain genre of filmmaking as that of Hammer. What Disney…
1 9 8 0 (UK) 13 x 60 minute episodes This 13-part anthology of spine-shiverers was produced for ITV by cult horror flick company, Hammer Films. Those…
1 9 8 4 (UK) 13 x 70 minute episodes This 1984 TV series co-produced with Fox was Hammer’s creative swan song, following on from their…
The first woman to scream for Hammer was probably Shirley Grey in William Hinds’ second film, The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (1936). Among notable actresses…
Escaped criminal Don Starling (American actor John Crawford) returns to his hometown of Manchester to seek out the loot from a previous robbery. Inspector Harry…
This much-maligned addition to the On The Buses trilogy takes the Butler family out of their usual surroundings and exchanges the bus depot and Mum’s front parlour…
Hammer revisited the Frankenstein tale on numerous occasions, with The Horror of Frankenstein generally regarded as one of the worst. Without any of the Hammer…
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson solve the mystery surrounding the death of a baronet on bleak, forbidding Dartmoor and save the victim’s heir from a…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 17 x 60 minute episodes The seventeen episodes that made up Journey to the Unknown were a mixture of psychological suspense,…