Hammer fans

[rob71]

Here's a link to an interesting blog Rob, its about the Hammer movies being remastered and put on Blu-ray

http://blog.hammerfilms.com/

Cheers Andy... now I know what else I want for Christmas... other than vintage SW

 

[chazb73]

Here's a link to an interesting blog Rob, its about the Hammer movies being remastered and put on Blu-ray

http://blog.hammerfilms.com/

Cheers Andy... now I know what else I want for Christmas... other than vintage SW

Yep Rob I'm after a few for Christmas also!

 

[x-pack]

The question is are they still good to watch now. Seems to be a lot of fond memories for these films but have they got shitter with time?

 

[chazb73]

The question is are they still good to watch now. Seems to be a lot of fond memories for these films but have they got shitter with time?

I still enjoy them Barry. It depends on your tastes really, if you want a modern style horror you might be disapointed (I think most modern are all the same)

A good narrative never turns to **** - some films can be dated, but as these are period set that doesn't really apply.

Laurel and hardy for example will always be funny.

But it all comes down to taste I suppose

 

[rob71]

The question is are they still good to watch now. Seems to be a lot of fond memories for these films but have they got shitter with time?

I still enjoy them Barry. It depends on your tastes really, if you want a modern style horror you might be disapointed (I think most modern are all the same)

A good narrative never turns to **** - some films can be dated, but as these are period set that doesn't really apply.

Laurel and hardy for example will always be funny.

But it all comes down to taste I suppose

Oh yes, Stan and Ollie... now you're talking. I wore my L&H cufflinks for work today

 

[chazb73]

The question is are they still good to watch now. Seems to be a lot of fond memories for these films but have they got shitter with time?

I still enjoy them Barry. It depends on your tastes really, if you want a modern style horror you might be disapointed (I think most modern are all the same)

A good narrative never turns to **** - some films can be dated, but as these are period set that doesn't really apply.

Laurel and hardy for example will always be funny.

But it all comes down to taste I suppose

Oh yes, Stan and Ollie... now you're talking. I wore my L&H cufflinks for work today

Excellent Rob! I love them also ,I think your my new best friend :lol: (SW, Hammer and L&H)

 

[rob71]

 

[Michael Sith]

:lol:

Stan was born just over an hour from me in Ulverston in Lancashire :wink:

Loved Beau Chumps the Foreign legion one, loved the one where they get locked up for selling booze to a policeman, and I recall one on a roof putting an arial up I think
l&H were awesome, liked Harold Lloyd as well and of course Chaplin

Don't make em like that anymore

 

[chazb73]

They certainly don'y Mike.

Son's of the desert and way out west are brill

Stan also went to Rutherglen Secondary school near Glasgow (a few miles from us) for a spell

They set the standards in film comedy

 

[chazb73]

:wink:

 

[rob71]

I went to the museum in Ulverston once while on holiday as a kid... there was a theatre room (well more like a sitting room with a TV and a VHS recorder :lol: ) where you could ask for any of the "shorts" you wanted to watch. Sat there for a good couple of hours with my folks, L&H fans all of us

Nowadays I have my DVD box set (almost the complete works) and I'm trying to get my boys into them (who could fail to laugh at a fat man slipping on a bar of soap that just happened to be in the middle of a sitting room, falling flat on his back and making every item of furniture in the room, including the curtains, come crashing to the ground? :lol: )

 

[chazb73]

:lol: What can start as a trip in the house can accumlate to the house lying demolished around them in the world of L&H

Used to love watching them with my Gran and Granda

 

[Michael Sith]

Can't beat them, watching them transports you back, like you say Andy, good memories

Need to get the DVD set now :roll:

Sit back and enjoy the clips :lol:

The music box....... :wink: :lol:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kV7bVdR9eAc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DkV7bVdR9eAc

 

[Michael Sith]

Don't get me started on Curly, Larry and Mo...honk. Honk :lol: :lol:

 

[lee gray]

I love hammer horror films and also the Amicus ones

theres an event in november
http://horrorunlimited.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/hammer-film-day-at-central-hall.html

 

[chazb73]

I love hammer horror films and also the Amicus ones

theres an event in november
http://horrorunlimited.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/hammer-film-day-at-central-hall.html

Great link Lee - would love to go to that. Yes the Amicus ones are great also - do you have any faves mate?

 

[lee gray]

I love hammer horror films and also the Amicus ones

theres an event in november
http://horrorunlimited.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/hammer-film-day-at-central-hall.html

Great link Lee - would love to go to that. Yes the Amicus ones are great also - do you have any faves mate?

Satanic rites of dracula, She, and blood from the mummies tomb. Was going to say creeping flesh but see its not by hammer

Love the carry on films and laurel and hardy too...they are the tops

 

[rob71]

Great link Lee... wish I could go to that

 

[chazb73]

I love hammer horror films and also the Amicus ones

theres an event in november
http://horrorunlimited.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/hammer-film-day-at-central-hall.html

Great link Lee - would love to go to that. Yes the Amicus ones are great also - do you have any faves mate?

Satanic rites of dracula, She, and blood from the mummies tomb. Was going to say creeping flesh but see its not by hammer

Love the carry on films and laurel and hardy too...they are the tops

Good choices Lee. yep Carry on movies always make me laugh. I will watch anything with Sid James in it

 

[Michael Sith]

Watched the last half of this the other day and remembered, it was a film I had seen as a kid that really scared me, I remember I was staying at a relatives at the time and there was a thunderstorm outside, they lived on a farm so there was thunder and lightening in the background ...that's probably why it scared me so much 8) :lol:

Jack the Ripper 1959

Just done a little reading up on it and the script was by Jimmy Sangster of Hammer Scripwriting fame

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cs8pLN32xbM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dcs8pLN32xbM


Hands of the ripper 1971 was the nearest Hammer got to the Ripper I think

The Lodger 1927 silent movie ( Hitchcocks 3 rd film) is a cracker for anyone who likes that sort of early cinema coolness


My favourite has to be though...Study In Terror 1965. Pitching Sherlock against the Ripper, awesome Conan D s fictional but awesome Sherlock pitched against a real life serial killer introduces the notion that the ripper was aristocratic,

Brilliant and def worth a watch

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=glhCMLRvgEI&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DglhCMLRvgEI