The Pirates Of Blood River
At a remote Huguenot settlement on an island in the Caribbean, Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) is railroaded and imprisoned for adultery. Standing manages to escape the penal colony only to… Read more »
Tag: Hammer Studios
Creatures The World Forgot
Creatures The World Forgot (1971) was the last “cave girl” film that Hammer Studios produced. Don Chaffey, who directed One Million Years B.C. (1966), returned to the sub-genre to helm… Read more »
Demons Of The Mind
Demons Of The Mind (1972) was the first of two films that Australian director Peter Sykes made for Hammer Productions (the second being To The Devil A Daughter). Demons Of… Read more »
Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb
Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (1971) is better known for its infamously troubled production than for its artistic merits. After one day into shooting Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb Hammer… Read more »
The Vengeance Of She
Hammer Films’ The Vengeance Of She (1968) picks up where their previous adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s novel She left off. The film follows Carol (Olinka Berova aka Olga Schoberová)… Read more »
Taste Of Fear
Hammer Productions’ Taste Of Fear (1961) sees director Seth Holt working at the height of his powers. Taste Of Fear, like Holt’s best films for Hammer, is a thriller rather… Read more »
Rasputin The Mad Monk
Shot on the same sets and at the same time as The Reptile (1966) and Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966), Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966) is a relatively low budget… Read more »
The Vampire Lovers
The Vampire Lovers (1970) adapts Sheridan Le Fanu’s nineteenth century novella Carmilla in true Hammer fashion. The rich colors, bombastic music that punctuates every dramatic beat and the macabre atmosphere… Read more »
Twins Of Evil
John Hough, the director of The Incubus (1982) and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), helmed this latter day Hammer classic Twins Of Evil (1971). Twins Of Evil is one of… Read more »
Cash On Demand
Quentin Lawrence directed Cash On Demand (1961) and a couple of other films for Hammer Studios, making a specialty of thrillers throughout his long career. Cash On Demand benefits tremendously… Read more »
