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post #1 of 21
8/22/02 at 9:41pm
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but it's only because I have never been able to find them anywhere untill know. Hammer Films...I have yet to see any of them. I know, I'm ashamed too...but now I have found a video store with good stocks of em and I am wondering, where should I start? I am thinking of maybe The Mummy with one of the coolest old guys ever Christopher Lee, but I am not sure. Give me some suggestions!
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post #2 of 21
8/22/02 at 9:56pm
Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires.
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post #3 of 21
8/22/02 at 10:17pm
Why not get them all, just wait till the CSR's are busy up front, make sure there's no cameras around and peel off the secruity stickers inside the box, or better yet open the box and slip the tape in your clothes...or well you could just pay 3 dollars for everyone one, your choice...then again you never heard this form me...
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post #4 of 21
8/22/02 at 11:08pm
Horror of Dracula. Definitely the best place to start. While watching most of the Hammer films be on the look out for a young Michael Gough. Later on he played Alfred in the Batman movies.
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post #5 of 21
8/22/02 at 11:24pm
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post #6 of 21
8/23/02 at 12:03am
Damn, I still haven't seen Plague of the Zombies! Although I've rented quite a few, most of the Hammer I've seen has been on AMC. They usually show a lot around Halloween.

Start with Curse of Frankenstein, The Horror of Dracula, and The Mummy. They're three of the first and three of the best. Each star Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

More recommendations here:
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post #7 of 21
8/23/02 at 4:52am
Anything with Cushing rocks.

But I love the "other" films of Hammer more.

Prehistoric Women.

She.

Not to mention the obvious...
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post #8 of 21
8/23/02 at 5:23am
Curse Of Frankenstein is where it all started, and it remains the strongest of their Universal remakes. Horror of Dracula features iconic performances from Cushing and Lee (as always) but the actual movie itself is a bit plodding and flat, in my opinion. Only a bit, mind you.

Seven Golden Vampires is bizarre and hilarious, but would probably give you the wrong impression if it was the first Hammer movie you saw.

Additionally Plague Of Zombies is superb, as are The Gorgon and The Mummy. And if you don't get Quatermass & The Pit then you're a damn fool.
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post #9 of 21
8/23/02 at 6:35am
I actually enjoy the Brian Donlevy Quatermass films more...
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post #10 of 21
8/23/02 at 9:58am
Quote:
Ugly Goblin Boy Is Disco Magic:
Stealing is bad and hurts everyone in the long run...
Only if you get caught...oh come on, cant take a joke, it's just all good fun, I would never steal anything.
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post #11 of 21
8/23/02 at 11:07am
Okay, I'm going to go out on a limb here and possibly make some folks question my sanity, but I am not a fan of the Hammer Horrors as a species. I love the Universal Horrors, but for some reason I could never get into Hammer, though god knows I tried for a while. I don't like Lee's Dracula, I can appreciate Cushing's Van Helsing/Frankenstein turns but they don't really do anything for me, the Hammer Mummies just turn me off completely, and the others I've seen (Vampire Lovers, whatever the "creeping flesh ice-man on the train" movie was, et al.) failed to stick with me at all.

Granted this was years ago when I was trying to get into them, so maybe if I tried again with my current level of maturity I might glean different results. And I haven't seen them all, by any means, so maybe my selections have just been unlucky.

Anyway, my 2 cents and pocket change. You may now flog me until the bright-red tempra-paint blood flows into the 17th Century Backlot Set dust.
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post #12 of 21
8/23/02 at 12:50pm
Most of what's been mentioned, plus the unfairly ignored Hands of the Ripper. My favourite Hammer film.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell is pretty good to IMO.
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post #13 of 21
8/23/02 at 12:52pm
oh and The Reptile. Makes a good double bill with Plague of the Zombies.
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post #14 of 21
8/23/02 at 1:10pm
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
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post #15 of 21
8/23/02 at 1:38pm
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Stop Scaring Scott Standridge:
Okay, I'm going to go out on a limb here and possibly make some folks question my sanity, but I am not a fan of the Hammer Horrors as a species. I love the Universal Horrors, but for some reason I could never get into Hammer, though god knows I tried for a while. I don't like Lee's Dracula, I can appreciate Cushing's Van Helsing/Frankenstein turns but they don't really do anything for me, the Hammer Mummies just turn me off completely, and the others I've seen (Vampire Lovers, whatever the "creeping flesh ice-man on the train" movie was, et al.) failed to stick with me at all.

Granted this was years ago when I was trying to get into them, so maybe if I tried again with my current level of maturity I might glean different results. And I haven't seen them all, by any means, so maybe my selections have just been unlucky.

Anyway, my 2 cents and pocket change. You may now flog me until the bright-red tempra-paint blood flows into the 17th Century Backlot Set dust.
oh man...can we get an intervention going here?

dan, you are a mn of impeccable tastes, maybe you should try giving some of these hammer flicks a second go round.

I was surprised when you mentioned Cushing's Van helsing never did it for you. For me, cushing's vamp-hunter is that rarest of rarity's in the horror genre, a capable hero worth rooting for. hes almost as much a force of nature as Drac himself, an aspect that gives HORROR OF DRACULA a mythic flair that was not quite there in the previous dracula films.

I've never been a huge Hammer frankenstein fan, But I need to go back and check out curse, etc. Another thing is, many of hammers excellent original work is overshadowed by the "classic" Universal monster adaptions.

Check out Quatermass and the Pit (5 million years to earth), The Abominable Snowman, The Devil Rides Out...even Brides of Dracula(which, ironically, does not feature drcaula himslef, but does have Cushing as van helsing) There is also a bang-up adaption of Hound of The baskervilles with lee and cushing that is worth a look.
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post #16 of 21
8/23/02 at 2:02pm
who's dan?

Maybe I'll try again. A-hastings I will go, a-hastings I will go...

BTW--Edward Van Sloan IS Van Helsing.
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post #17 of 21
8/23/02 at 2:19pm
Peter Cushing was one of those rare actors who made even the worst crap watchable with his presence. Use him in a decent film, like the Hammer Draculas, and he's untouchable.

And his Van Helsing characterisation (the charisma, the drive, the obsession, the fearlessness) is pretty darned important to the genre. It influenced everything from Loomis in Halloween to Peter Vincent in Fright Night, and every modern day monster hunter in between.
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post #18 of 21
8/23/02 at 2:20pm
sorry, i was thinking of that other horror fan with impeccable taste on this board...dan whitehead. Pretty soon i'm going to start getting Butane mixed up with RRotten and so on and so on
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post #19 of 21
8/23/02 at 3:40pm
The Scars of Dracula- and the DVD has tons of great extras.
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post #20 of 21
8/23/02 at 3:57pm
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The Scars of Dracula- and the DVD has tons of great extras.
scars is one of those that people go either way on...I have bever seenit. is it worth a blind buy?

how does it compare to Horror, brides and Prince of Darkness?
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post #21 of 21
8/23/02 at 9:29pm
Hound the Baskervilles. Great film.
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