Anyone like the Hammer Frankenstein movies
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Charles
Hammer Horror is my favorite. I grew up watching these classics!
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I bought "Curse of Frankenstein" recently, without having seen any Hammer movies at all. However, I simply love it! A very close second to Universal's "Frankenstein".
shareGrew up with Hammer films playing Saturday afternoons on Creature Double Feature. They hold up well, the eariler ones better than the latter ones. I'm still trying to track down a few I haven't seen. The Frank & Drac films are great, loved The Mummy, the Curse of the Werewolf, the Lost Continent, etc.
shareThough the later ones (anything after about 1968) tend not to be very good, check out "The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires" (1975). It's a classic, right up there with the stuff from Hammer's heyday.
shareI like the later ones. I like all the Hammer films come to think of it.
"The face of evil is ugly to look upon. And as the pleasures increase, the face becomes uglier."
I love the Hammer horrors & none are better than "Dracula" and "Frankenstein". Classics right up there with the Universal monsters. But I'm a sucker for any movie with Dracula/Frankenstein in the title. "Billy the Kid Vs Dracula". "Frankenstein Conquers the World", etc...I'll buy it.
"There's my buttercup!"
I've always enjoyed Hammer's horror offerings! I enjoy the period pieces as well as the more contemporary psychological thrillers ("Paranoiac," "Scream Of Fear," etc.) I wish "Shadow Of The Cat" would be released on DVD. I'm very curious about that one.
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shareYes. I watched Universal's horror films as a child on TV. They were great for their time. I saw Hammer's films in the theater as a child and as a teen. When they appeared times had changed - plus British tastes were, in my opinion, more advanced and liberal than were American's. I always felt Hammer pushed the envelope more than did Universal in the 30's and 40's.
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Some of the best British color horrors of the Hammer period that might as well have been by Hammer, since other studios could and did hire much the same talent:
The Creeping Flesh (Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, same director as Hammer's Dracula Has Risen from the Grave)
The Blood On Satan's Claw (Linda Hayden, similar in theme to Hammer's To The Devil A Daughter, but much better)
Cry Of The Banshee (similar in theme to Hammer's Twins Of Evil, but better)
And Now The Screaming Starts (Stephanie Beecham, Peter Cushing, same director as Hammer's The Vampire Lovers)
The Tomb Of Ligeia (the most Hammer-like of the Roger Corman/Vincent Price films imo, set in 1830s England, shot on location in England with mostly English cast)
Blood Of The Vampire (with Barbara Shelley from Hammer's Dracula Prince Of Darkness and the same screenwriter as Hammer's Curse Of Frankenstein, and it's not a masterpiece like Curse, but it's good)