Hammer fans

[chazb73]

Any Hammer Horror fans amongst you guys?

 

[Michael Sith]

Love the early Hammer stuff, black and white

Remember being scared witless as a kid by Christopher lee as Dracula :lol:
Peter Cushing was awesome, but it's the early stuff I love

Not a horror fan in the slash and gash genre, but the early b& w stuff is still awesome

Woman in black though I found pretty good

 

[chazb73]

Love the early Hammer stuff, black and white

Remember being scared witless as a kid by Christopher lee as Dracula :lol:
Peter Cushing was awesome, but it's the early stuff I love

Not a horror fan in the slash and gash genre, but the early b& w stuff is still awesome

Woman in black though I found pretty good

I agree Mike,

dont like the slasher horror stuff, Quatermass and the Pit one of my faves, Plague of the zombies and the reptile are all 60s classics, Dracula, the 1950's one is brill (its been remastered and released on blu ray, hope to get it soon)

 

[Michael Sith]

Quatermass was brilliant, great stuff watch that again and again

Christopher Lee was a scary git...still scary when I watch now :?

Funny how both Cushing and Lee ended up in SW, Cushing was superb casting I thought

 

[Richard_H]

I was going to post this thread today!

I love the 12 episodes Hammer did for TV in the 80s. They are well worth checking out. Love Quatermass, anything with Peter Lorre, but not so fussed on She and stuff like that.

 

[chazb73]

I agree She was not the best, The devil rides out is a goodie. Love the hammer TV classics also

 

[Richard_H]

I don't think it's Hammer but check out The Beast with Five Fingers with Peter Lorre. A very good film and could have been an early B+W Hammer if it isn't.

 

[rob71]

Love the Hammer films, some real classics (The Mummy, Frankenstein etc). Used to be great seeing Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee together (if only Vincent Price could have joined them as well).

I used to watch the Hammer House of Horror series as well when I was a kid. I remember it well, Saturday nights on Tyne Tees before turning over for Match of the Day. I would be scared before the story even started, with the music and the opening sequence with the scary figure in the window :? Bought the DVD box set a few years ago, and while it's a bit dated it's still good fun.

 

[rob71]

I also love most of the Peter Lorre films including Quatermass.

Two more that scared me as a kid were The Ghoul (the 70s remake with Peter Cushing) and another one I can't remember the name of but maybe you guys know it - I believe the theme was cats and it was split into four or five different stories...

 

[chazb73]

I don't think it's Hammer but check out The Beast with Five Fingers with Peter Lorre. A very good film and could have been an early B+W Hammer if it isn't.

Will do mate :wink:

Here's a couple of non hammer ones

Check out the weird but very good the Abominable Dr. Phibes with vincent price

and an Ealing one from 1945 Dead of Night

 

[chazb73]

I also love most of the Peter Lorre films including Quatermass.

Two more that scared me as a kid were The Ghoul (the 70s remake with Peter Cushing) and another one I can't remember the name of but maybe you guys know it - I believe the theme was cats and it was split into four or five different stories...

Will check those out Rob, some some really good non hammer movies (in the same mould out there) :wink:

 

[rob71]

Classic stuff Andy

And Dr Phibes Rises Again was also great

 

[chazb73]

At some point in history they went from being corrupt to cuddly

Love the fact they were low budget, (they filmed the Reptile and Plague of the Zombies back to back and used the same sets! brill and Eastmen colour (i think thats what it was) looked fab in the 50s

 

[chazb73]

Classic stuff Andy

And Dr Phibes Rises Again was also great

Yes Rob - love them - Price was brill wasnt he

 

[rob71]

Yes Rob - love them - Price was brill wasnt he

One of my favourites. It was very sad watching his final performance in Edward Scissorhands.

 

[Richard_H]

Tales of Terror with Price, Lorre et al. was a series of short tales but its not the cats one. I know the one you mean but not the name. Is it the one with the 5 guys trapped in the hotel basement each telling their own story?

 

[rob71]

Found it...

Featured Peter Cushing and also the ever-creepy Donald Pleasance


I remember Tales of Terror as well - I think Peter Lorre was in The Black Cat?

 

[Richard_H]

He was playing an alcoholic who was in a drinking competition with a very camp Price.

 

[chazb73]

Going to check these out - cheers chaps

 

[tiefighterboy]

Love all the 60 and 70's Hammer films!!