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Join Date: Jul 2011
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Any Hammer Horror Fans Here?
So are there any fans of Hammer Horror films here?
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Yes, I am.
Damn shame Hammer never made Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls.
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Horror Man
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: uk
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Hell, yes. Any you'd like to discuss?
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Well, none in particular. I just saw some I'd never seen before in the last few days.
One thing's for sure though, in Hammer films skeptics never really stay skeptic for long. Unlike Scully and Indiana Jones. No matter what they see, those two never change their minds. it's a shame they went out of business though. |
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Going home!
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Prague now, Glasgow in November
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Love the Hammer films. My box set of DVDs has pride of place! (But then I'm a sucker for most 1960s-70s UK TV and films, have to say).
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So Goth That I Was Born Black
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: In The Darkside's Light
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I LOVE them. My addiction is terrible. I could watch them all day.
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Seen 'em come, seen 'em go
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Love 'em. Christopher Lee was a far better Dracula than Lugosi, IMHO, and you have to love Peter Cushing's roles in so many of them.
On a side note, many years ago I was privileged to interview Vincent Price, and he confirmed what I suspected: both The Abominable Doctor Phibes and Doctor Phibes Rises Again were affectionate nods to the Hammer folks.
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The Girl in the Steampunk Hat
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Hammer Horror is the best. Unmatched. They had the magic touch.
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Just another face in a red jumpsuit
Join Date: Oct 2010
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I grew up on 'em! Some people get nostalgic about sitcoms that were on when they were kids--I get warm and fuzzy over horror movies I saw as a kid and the actors in them.
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Ruining your porn since 1984
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Hammer Horror fan here, definitely!
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Joker Groupie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: probably watching DARK KNIGHT
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I am a horror actress.
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Malkavian Primogen
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Los Angeles
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Good news! Hammer is on the rise again--vampire flick Let Me In last year and later this year will be the haunted house tale Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliff!
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Horror Man
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: uk
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I saw the 1958 Dracula when I was about ten. It's still one of my favourite films.
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permaflounced
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde changed my life. God bless Hammer!
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Drifting through the clouds
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing paired as Dracula and Van Helsing.... (^_^)
Saw "Let Me In" and own the DVD, hehehe. |
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The cake is a lie. But still cake.
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Belfast
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Ummmm - they aren't out of business. My hubby does freelance stuff for them - he took all the photos and backstage reports of 'Wakewood' that were in film ireland.
http://www.filmireland.net/2011/03/2...-of-wake-wood/ They've even had a couple of movies out this year - they made 'Let me in' which was the english language version of the Let the Right One in. They also put out the Resident, Wakewood and The woman in black is coming out this year. 'Wake' is due to film next year. In addition they have a lot of new books and DVD releases of the back catalogues scheduled. They're still very much in business, although the company has changed hands several times over the last 20 years or so. Incidently, my hubby's publishing company is republishing Ingrid Pitt's novels, including previously unpublished sequel to Cuckoo run. She was a good friend of his and my hubby edited her latest memoir - the Hammer Xperience. Hubby is also publishing books by hammer actor turned bestselling author, Shane Briant. So yeah, hammer and the hammer fandom pay a lot of our rent.
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Start with a bang.
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: NYC
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Can we talk about how awesome this is? This is awesome-awesome. AWESOME.
![]() I too love Hammer horror. It freaks my best friends out a little bit. (They like their rom-coms.)
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Now, just for fun, watch all the Hammer Dracula movies, and try to work out a coherent chronological and geographical framework for them. Peter Cushing makes both a great hero -- Van Helsing -- and a great villain -- Baron Frankenstein. I know, in the novel and most adaptations, Frankenstein is a morally conflicted, tormented, ambivalent protagonist. But in Hammer movies, he's a full-on mad scientist, interested only in a) advancing the science of doing really freaky things with dead bodies, and b) taking cold, hard revenge on anybody who effs with him. Possibly my favorite Hammer film is Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter.
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Horror Man
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I've thought about trying that but then I get distracted by all the serving wenches leaning forward for no reason.
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Malkavian Primogen
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Wrote an article about Lee as Dracula for an online magazine.
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Hammer films are one of the reasons I write horror.
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Well, it's nice to meet you Rachel. Quote:
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Hammer was great at making movies look like they cost more than they did.
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's an
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