Captain Clegg
Captain Clegg (1962) represents a cross pollination of different genres that Hammer excelled in. It is at once a horror film, an adventure picture and a thriller. In the hands… Read more »
Tag: Hammer Studios
Frankenstein Created Woman
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) has the most harrowing opening of any Hammer film. The picture opens with a man being taken to the guillotine as his young son looks on…. Read more »
The Plague Of The Zombies
The Plague Of The Zombies (1966) offers up a distinctly post-colonial horror. A horror that sees feudalism give way to capitalism. Haitian culture and religion are appropriated by the aristocracy… Read more »
The World Of Hammer
The World Of Hammer (1994) was a thirteen part series of twenty-five minute episodes narrated by Oliver Reed. Each episode in the series looked at a theme in Hammer Films… Read more »
Die! Die! My Darling!
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) was the great Tallulah Bankhead’s final film but it was also one of the late Donald Sutherland’s first films. Sutherland’s early career in British horror… Read more »
To The Devil A Daughter
Before Hammer Films was revived in the 2010s, To The Devil A Daughter (1976) had the distinction of being Hammer’s final film. As such, To The Devil A Daughter was… Read more »
The Brides Of Dracula
The Brides Of Dracula (1960) is an underrated Terence Fisher contribution to the Hammer Horror canon. Envisioned as a direct sequel to the highly successful Horror Of Dracula (1958), The… Read more »
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 »
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 »
