For a Hammer film, and with a title like this, The Old Dark House is not all that dark. Perhaps it would have seemed more so if the comedy had been toned […]
Spend a Night in…– The Old Dark House (1963)
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Look, For…– These are the Damned (1963)
Hammer had great success with horror over the course of its existence and when it decided to start mixing in elements of science-fiction, The Quatermass Xperiment being the more prominent one in […]
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Like Father, Like Daughter – Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Hands of the Ripper starts out like a really bad made-for-T.V. movie with some questionable editing that immediately makes you wonder what the makers of this film were thinking. Not an auspicious […]
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Relax, It’s Only a…– Nightmare (1964)
The Jimmy Sangster-penned Nightmare from Hammer Studios in 1964 sees a young girl driven to madness and murder with the film then delivering a bit of a twist when her tormentors are […]
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Come One, Come All to the…– Vampire Circus (1972)
By 1972, everything that could really be said or done with a vampire had been and most of it by Hammer Studios. So with a lack of innovation and without rewriting the […]
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Mind Capsules – Doctor Strange #1 and Nailbiter #16
Doctor Strange #1 Writer – Jason Aaron Artist – Chris Bachalo, Kevin Knowlan Inkier – Tim Townsend, Al Vey, Mark Irwin Colours – Chris Bachalo Doctor Strange has not had an ongoing […]
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Love Will Keep Us Together – The Mummy (1959)
As Hammer started to expand its horror output, much of what it did mirrored what Universal had done twenty to thirty years previous. Universal had a Frankenstein and a Dracula, so too […]
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It Was the One-Armed Man! – Fear in the Night (1972)
Fear in the Night, a 1972 picture released by Hammer Films, was a psychological horror film that while good as a whole, did nothing to improve the genre and was slightly formulaic […]
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Mind Capsules – Starve #5 and The October Faction #9
Starve #5 Writer – Brian Wood Artist – Danijel Zezelj Colours – Dave Stewart When last we saw Gavin, he was about to take up the second challenge on the latest episode […]
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Do You Dare Risk…– The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964)
The plot to the first sequel in Hammer’s Mummy series, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, is nothing we have not seen before. If finds a group of Egyptologists discover a new […]
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Beware the…– Demons of the Mind (1972)
Demons of the Mind, as both a horror film and a Hammer film, is a strange beast. It is unlike almost anything the studio had released up until this point nor would […]
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To Stop the Mummy, You Must Have…– The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)
Three years after The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, Hammer would release The Mummy’s Shroud, the third entry into their mummy series and it would be a big improvement over the previous […]
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Mind Capsules – Uncanny Avengers #1 and The Shadow #3
Uncanny Avengers #1 Writer – Gerry Duggan Artist – Ryan Stegman Colours – Richard Isanove The third volume of Uncanny Avengers begins with this issue, with new writer Gerry Duggan coming on […]
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He Suffers…– The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
When one has made a werewolf film, it is hard not to be compared to the benchmark that was established with, at least during this point in time, The Wolf Man. Now […]
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Mind Capsules – Captain America: Sam Wilson #1 and Harrow County #6
Captain America: Sam Wilson #1 Writer – Nick Spencer Artist – Daniel Acuna People love Captain America. They always have and they always will, or at least you would assume so. It […]
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To Live Another Day – Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
After three films behind them, Hammer would release the fourth and final picture dealing with the subject of mummies in 1971 and it would be with a breath of fresh air as […]
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Pulptastic! – Horror 3
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From Out of India Come…– The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
Captain Harry Lewis is a good man. He is an officer and a gentleman and when he learns of the many men and women that go missing every day in India; he […]
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Grounded, Yet Still Sailing – Captain Clegg (1962)
Peter Cushing stars as a man who goes from pirate to priest to bootlegger in Captain Clegg, an adventure/horror hybrid of a film much unlike anything that Hammer would normally release and […]
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Oh to be Young Again – Countess Dracula (1971)
If there was one thing that Hammer was good at, it was creating a horror movie that would feature bloody murders with beautiful women left and right. One of the most beautiful […]
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