Horror Express and Hammer horror
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lomticks_of_toast — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 09:04 AM)
I have never made an effort to watch these old Hammer horrors with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, etc. But I caught the first 30 mins of Horror Express last night on TCM and was intrigued. Enough so to actually incorporate an image from the film as my avatar.
So the question: which Hammer horrors are considered to be the best of the bunch?
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jimb14 — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 09:14 AM)
Just a FYI, Horror Express is not Hammer.
Anywho some of my favorite Hammer horror films are.
Plague of the Zombies
Vampire Circus
Devil Ride Out
Curse of Frankenstein
The Nanny
Curse of the Werewolf
Vampire Lovers
Captain Kronos
To name a few.
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lomticks_of_toast — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 09:28 AM)
Thanks for the recs - I'll start checking these out. Plague of the Zombies looks right up my alley.
The guy on TCM introduced Horror Express as Hammerbut maybe I misheard him and he just said something like it's in the vein of Hammer and used a couple of their standard actors or something.
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jessicafischerqueen — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 09:35 AM)
It's a
Hamster Horror
film brah. The guy who was introducing it probably had an outrageous English accent, hence the mixup.
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jimb14 — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 09:36 AM)
I think they were showing Lee films that were not Hammer last night. I am watching Horror Hotel which I DVRd and was on after Horror Express I think and he mentioned that at the beginning.
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WeAintFoundShin — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 11:03 AM)
The Curse of the Werewolf is the one that I was most impressed by.
The Abdominal Snowman of the Himalayas
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (Rated G!)
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rixrex — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 11:52 AM)
There's a good body of films that were inspired by Hammer, or somehow associated, and stylistically are so similar that people get confused.
Another one is Blood of the Vampire, UK produced at about the same time as Horror of Dracula.
The Eyes of the City are Mine!
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asiamatron — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 09:39 AM)
Horror Express is one of my favorite horror films, good stuff. Father Pujardov is funny.
Here are some of my favorite Hammer films:
Horror of Dracula
The Devil Rides Out
Plague of the Zombies
Vampire Circus
Quatermass and the Pit
The Gorgon
The Abominable Snowman
The Quatermass Xperiment -
biker-1 — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 12:57 PM)
the mound of the hound of the baskervilles
I like the model train in
horror express (1972)
. It was left over from period epic
nicholas and alexander (1971)
, a competent historical biopic from the director of
planet of the apes (1968)
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SuperDevilDoctor — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 03:43 AM)
I've been a fan of Hammer horror films for over 45 years now.
Here's my IMDb List of
The Best of Hammer Horror
(22 titles), listed chronologically - oldest to newest:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000072824/
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lomticks_of_toast — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 08:56 AM)
Very nice - thanks for the share.
Not sure why I've never looked into these films, although I'm not a huge vampire/Franky/werewolf fan, so
But there are plenty of alternatives available.
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DeadandBuried81 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 10:01 AM)
The Late 50's and Early 60's hammer are great. The got bloodier and tittier in the Early 70's.
My Faves are
Horror of Drac
Scars of Drac
Curse of Frank
Revenge of Frank
Paranoiac
Vampire Lovers
Countess Dracula
Twins of Evil
www.thecultofhorror.blogspot.com