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[Mumpo]

Cameras roll on new Hammer horror

Nothing on 'The Wake Wood' at IMDB yet, so production can't be that far advanced. Good title, though.

Hammer top 5's, anyone? Can't say I've ever sat through a whole one.

[Purves Grundy]

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good thread title

[Mumpo]

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Ta. Actually, checking IMDB, I see that I have watched two Hammer films in their entirety - Quatermass And The Pit, and Moon Zero Two. So, my Hammer top 5:

1. Quatermass And The Pit
2. Moon Zero Two

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You never saw the Pitt/O'Mara-tastic The Vampire Lovers? You haven't lived.

A swift glance at the total output of Hammer Studios has left me with a yearning to see George Cole in Don't Panic Chaps.

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Island of Terror. Always been my favourite.

[ian.64]

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The first ever Dracula. Like a template for the rest of them: gothic as you like, eerie music, serious-as-hell acting and plain good fun. Plus, the kind of 'night' scenes you could clearly read a book in.

All of it chuntered along quite nicely until the '70's where it got all tits-and-bums. Nothing specifically wrong with that, but the chills (and underlying sensuality) of the early films were vitiated by the sight of wobbling boobs in later ones, where the sense of gothicism was spoiled by a knowledge of what crowd Hammer were playing to.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Dracula
The Devil Rides Out
The Horror of Frankenstein
Quatermass and the Pit
The Vampire Lovers (ahem)

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"The Masque of The Red Death"

Not sure if it was a genuine Hammer movie, as it looked better made than the usual wobbly walls etc (they actually used alot of the old set from "Becket"); but old Pricey in the "Masque..." was at his imperious best as Prince Prospero.

And of course there was "The Fall of The House of Usher"

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They were both Roger Corman films for AIP.

[ian.64]

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Stumpy's correct.

Masque also had the distinction of having some bloke called Nicolas Roeg do the camarawork.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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All good Hammer films should have:

* One or both of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
* A mutton-chopped Ralph 'Dear John' Bates
* Buxom virgins in nighties
* Michael 'Butterflies' Ripper, probably as an innkeeper, warning our hero against going to the castle on top of the hill