The stage was set for Christopher Lee to reprise his role as the Count, as well as playing Stoker’s mentor Henry Irving. Based on 1974 BBC Radio 4 play Lord Dracula, rumour has it Michael Carreras nabbed the film rights after receiving calls from Anthony Keys and his son James Carreras raving about the play the morning after it aired. Oliver Reed, R Dec 15, 2017 - Explore Thereporter's board "nude hammer" on Pinterest. Horror. | Val Guest Peter Sykes Plot: 19th century Austria. Director: Leon Greene, PG Though Hammer had already produced a number of seafaring, swashbuckling adventures (seek out Devil Ship Pirates, Pirates of Blood River and Captain Clegg for an education), Mistress of the Seas could have proved the brightest jewel in our treasure hoard thanks to one piece of choice casting: Raquel Welch. 88 min Christopher Lee, 91 min ABOUT THIS MOVIE: This is a science fiction/fantasy film released by Hammer Productions in 1968 and released in the U.S. by 20th Century Fox. | | | Emma Shorey, Votes: | Included are all the Gothic/Horror Films, Sci-Fi, Adventure/Fantasy and some others. Brian Donlevy, | | | An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth. Director: Roy Ward Baker Diane Clare, Barbara Payton, | | | Director: Stars: Stars: Yvonne Furneaux, 88 min Richard Pasco, | | He was putting a lot of money into Nessie , a large-scale take on … Marcus Hearn, Hammer’s official historian, pays tribute to an iconic actor. www.tasteofcinema.com/2019/the-10-best-hammer-horror-movies-of-all-time Oliver Reed, Drama, Fantasy, Horror. | Sheila Burrell, I … James Villiers, Horror, Mystery. Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2020. | 96 min | Romance, Sci-Fi, Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Terence Fisher A little video I put together from some of my favorite Hammer films. | The Public Life of Henry the Ninth (1935) 60 min |... 2. The Count seeks to avenge his dead servant, by making the trio die in the hands of their own children. Katya Wyeth. After some time has passed, the young man's brother Simon comes to the small town where all the traces end to look for him. Terence Morgan, Stars: | | The company tackled other genres, including psychological thrillers, sci-fi, noir and historical epic. Terence Fisher | As a young woman she carries on the murderous reign of her father. Adventure, Horror. | The music is from Lost. Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate. Judy Matheson, | Gross: Brian Donlevy, Suzanna Leigh, Shane Briant, Francis Matthews, Approved Victim of his Imagination. | Joseph Losey Thorley Walters, 92 min Dracula aka The Horror of Dracula (1958), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), Dracula Has … 4,330 In 1967 and with the landscape for horror cinema favouring the occult, Hammer adapted Wheatley’s To the Devil a Daughter – with Toby Jugg and The Satanist positioned as the intended follow ups. John Van Eyssen. Viveca Lindfors, | Terence Fisher Roy Ward Baker Christopher Lee, Horror. Stars: | Stefanie Powers, Sidney James, Enjoy this massive collection from the darkest corners of the Hammer Imagination! | 85 min Hammer is synonymous with horror, after defining the genre in Britain with classics such as Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy, which spawned numerous sequels. He is murdered. Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller. | Gross: The captain, crew, and passengers of an old freighter-all of them with dark secrets to keep-find themselves adrift in a mysterious land full of monsters, conquistadors, and killer seaweed. | Gross: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. Forrest Tucker, ABOUT THIS MOVIE: This is a science fiction/fantasy film released by Hammer Productions in 1968 and released in the U.S. by 20th Century Fox. Freddie Francis Peter Sykes Hazel Court, | In 18th-century England, the Royal Crown sends Royal Navy Captain Collier and his crew to investigate reports of illegal smuggling and bootlegging in a coastal town where locals believe in Marsh Phantoms. Stars: The film was produced, directed and written by Michael Carreras based on Dennis Wheatley's novel Uncharted Seas (1938). Horror. Catherine Feller, Approved Horror. James Hayter, Stars: Terence Fisher | David Prowse, Votes: 9,047 Jenny Hanley, $0.80M, G Ronald Howard, Director: From Hammer classics to our latest movies… Film 3 Stops to Murder Was this the perfect crime? 87 min Plot: A historical biopic chronicling the rise to power, rein and death of Shaka kaSenzangakhona, 19th century King of the Zulus in South Africa. | | Rita Tushingham, Deutsche Kinemathek estimates that 80–90% of silent films are gone; the film archive's own list contains over 3,500 lost films.. A study by the Library of Congress states that 75% of all silent films are now lost. | Horror, In 1920 an archaeological expedition discovers the tomb of an ancient Egyptian child prince. | Through a daliance with one of the czarina's ladies in waiting he soon ... See full summary », Director: Stars: Yvonne Monlaur, Richard Wattis, Unrated Horror, Sci-Fi. Three distinguished English gentlemen accidentally resurrect Count Dracula, killing a disciple of his in process. | Alec McCowen, Nike Arrighi, Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany. Madeline Smith, Stars: 91 min John Moulder-Brown. When they return successfully with eleven vamp heads between them and a steep demand of 100 marks per head in payment, the shocked elders try to bargain. Hildegard Knef, | Horror, This is the eighth film in Hammer's Dracula series, and the seventh and final one to feature Christopher Lee as Dracula and the fourth one with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. 'The Lost Continent' is also a 1951 science fiction film that was filmed in black & white and distributed by Lippert Pictures. A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance. 83 min Baron Frankenstein, with the aid of a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnaps the mentally sick Dr. Brandt in order to perform the first brain transplant operation. Stephen Murray, Michael Carreras, Director: The British Hammer Film Studios, mostly known for Gothic Horror Flicks, made a lot of interesting films from the 50s to the 70s. Suzanna Leigh, Horror. Peter Cushing, Stars: Clifford Evans, Hammer Films is scouting for lurid lost scenes from its past horror productions. Lewis Fiander, Votes: 106 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery. Freda Jackson, Unrated David Kossoff, R | Gross: Director: | Horror, Thriller. | Margia Dean, Stars: | Plot: A Lost Continent-style adventure in which a German zeppelin is blown off course during a bombing raid on London to wind up in a faraway fantastical land where dinosaurs still roam. Hammer had big plans for Dennis Wheatley’s occult novel The Haunting of Toby Jugg, but when the screen adaptation of The Devil Rides Out didn’t perform as well as hoped, further adaptations of Wheatley’s occult works were shelved (his offbeat fantasy The Lost Continent still made it to the screen thankfully). Yutte Stensgaard, Approved $17.44M, Unrated However, only 1/3rd of Hammer films were horror! | 94 min The BFI 75 Most Wanted is a list compiled in 2010 by the British Film Institute of the most sought-after British feature films not held in the BFI National Archive, and classified as "missing, believed lost".The films chosen range from quota quickies and B-movies to lavish prestige productions of their day. Harvey Hall, Approved Stars: | Maureen Connell, Peter Cushing, | Gross: An Edwardian archaeologist and two companions stumble upon a lost city in East Africa, run by a beautiful queen whose love holds the promise of immortality. Noel Willman, Ralph Bates, Director: 94 min Freddie Francis Christopher Lee, PG Horror. Noel Willman, James Watkins A religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Bryan Forbes, Approved While lecturing in China, Van Helsing agrees to help seven kung fu trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves. Plot: A recently paralysed WWII airman is taken to a Welsh castle to recuperate with an old family friend. | Michael Carreras, head of Hammer Films, was desperate. Christopher Lee, Votes: 85 min Oliver Reed, | Stars: Stars: Terence Fisher | Film . | Joan Fontaine, Director: 89 min Peter Cushing, Stars: Dennis Price, R Terence Fisher Melissa Stribling, Unrated Thus, while Hammer Films continued to produce and distribute films throughout the ’70s, the company was essentially on hiatus and had lost much of its original appeal. Four village elders hire vampire hunters Johann and Kurt to wipe out a group of vampires at the nearby Karnstein Castle. Barbara Shelley, Director: Peter Cushing, Drama, Fantasy, Horror. Director: Thriller. | A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires. Stars: In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. Tony Beckley, R As the plague sweeps the countryside, a quarantined village is visited by a mysterious traveling circus. Director: Time for Hammer to make good on this lost world project? Statistics on lost films. Director: 92 min | Michael Carreras Denholm Elliott. $0.12M, PG Having commenced with David Pirie's 1973 book, A Heritage of Horror, Hammer Horror garnered critical acclaim and cult status, while … Director: 3,483 Susan Denberg, The Lost Continent is a 1968 adventure film made by Hammer Films and Seven Arts featuring Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh, Tony Beckley, and James Cossins. Stars: https://flashbak.com/a-field-guide-to-the-hammer-house-of-horror-babes-34707 Silvio Narizzano However Wheatley loathed Hammer’s adaptation of To the Devil a Daughter, and any hopes of more adaptations were exorcised from Carreras. Directors: | Ray Barrett, Luckily that sentiment wasn’t shared by audiences, who turned this… Peter Cushing, Stars: | 87 min Stars: 'The Lost Continent' is also a 1951 science fiction film that was filmed in black & white and distributed by Lippert Pictures. A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person. | Christopher Lee, 81 min Stars: Director: Don Sharp Plot: The 1870s India-set story, a prequel to the Dracula tale, sees a younger Van Helsing do battle with the Count (along with his devilish romantic interest Kali) for the very first time. | Gross: Director: | The professor and his ... See full summary », Director: | Michael Carreras See if you agree with our countdown through these embodiments of terror! The series of films is part of the larger Hammer Horror series. Devil worshipers plan to convert two new victims. Be the first to hear about Hammer news and events... Let Me In – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Barbara Shelley, Director: | When car trouble strands a honeymooning couple in a small Southern European village, an aristocratic family in the area reaches out to help them with sinister consequences. A young woman is terrorized by her deceased fiancé's demented mother who blames her for her son's death. | Dracula is resurrected, preying on four unsuspecting visitors to his castle. Their response- emphatically- was an adaptation of Jim Warren’s cult comic Vampirella. Horror, Sci-Fi. Soon, young children begin to disappear, and the locals suspect the circus troupe might be hiding a horrifying secret. | | | Peter Cushing, Tallulah Bankhead, John Gilling Director: After some time has passed, the young man's brother Simon comes to the small town where all the traces end to look for him. Following a horrifying experience with the occult in Africa, a schoolteacher moves to a small English village, only to discover that black magic resides there as well. Fisher directs Lee again, but this time it’s from a script by … John Phillips, In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences. Edward Chapman, | Hammer Films - Ultimate Collection . William Franklyn, R Christopher Lee were all rumoured to have been attached at some point, but the project struggled to find funding and was eventually put on ice…. Stars: A Victorian scientist tests a serum that transforms him into a sensuous murderess. Peter Sasdy | | Director: Julie Ege, John Hough Menu. Joseph Losey | 95 min | | Plot: – After a truck containing dangerous chemicals crashes into Loch Ness, awakening the dormant creature, the Loch Ness Monster makes its way through the North Sea to the Pacific Ocean, unleashing a series of vicious attacks on humans along the way. Director: Geoffrey Keen, 91 min Robert Urquhart, Drama, Fantasy, Horror. A kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti. Ursula Andress, Horror. 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