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Showing posts with label Hammer Studios. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hammer Studios. Show all posts
Saturday, July 08, 2023

The Quatermass Legacy

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I sat in on this vodcast (is that even a word?) celebrating the 70th anniversary of the original broadcast of The Quatermass Experiment . ...
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Saturday, October 05, 2019

Double Your Pleasure

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By 1971, Hammer Films were grasping at straws, trying desperately to stay relevant in a changing marketplace. There was a sea change coming...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Dr. Frankenstein, I Presume

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It seems inconceivable to me that I'd never seen The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958, directed by Terence Fisher) before this week. I spe...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Walk Like An Egyptian

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Mummy movies, if you'll pardon the expression, seem like they're cursed. Is there a horror sub-genre with a worse ratio of good mov...
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Devil, You Say!

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Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out (1968) is a capstone of sorts to his career at Hammer. He would go on to make a couple of other f...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Into the Wood

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Note to self: if I ever find myself in a position to take advantage of some supernatural boon, I plan to follow the conditions of that boon ...
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Sunday, October 09, 2011

Buyer's Remorse

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I think the mistake I'm making with the October Challenge this year is that I'm not peppering my month with legitimately good movies...
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Saturday, October 01, 2011

From Heck

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Pia Zadora once claimed that Peter Sasdy, the director who guided her to a Golden Raspberry award for her infamous performance in The Lonely...
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Thursday, June 09, 2011

Love and Undeath

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"I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine" --J. Sheridan le Fanu, "Carmilla" Although...
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