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- DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingChristopher LeeMichael GoughWhen Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.Hammer's first in the series of films inspired by Dracula. Known as "Horror of Dracula" in the US, the film stars the classic casting of Chistopher Lee (Count Dracula) and Peter Cushing (Doctor Van Helsing).
PLOT - After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbY0BgIRMk - DirectorSeth HoltStarsSusan StrasbergAnn ToddRonald LewisA wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.This sees Hammer legend Christopher Lee (Dr. Pierre Gerrard) in a supporting role. Lee has been quoted as saying "Taste of Fear was the best film that I was in that Hammer ever made... It had the best director, the best cast and the best story." Susan Strasberg (Penny Appleby) plays the lead. (Scream of Fear - US)
PLOT - Penny Applebee's parents divorced when she was quite young and so, she grew up with her mother. After her mother's death, the wheelchair-bound Penny accepted her father's invitation to live with him. She arrives only to learn that her father is away though, her stepmother - who she is meeting for the first time - proves to be quite welcoming. On her first night however, she sees a light in the summerhouse and upon investigation, sees her father sitting there, apparently dead. Others can find nothing there and tell her she must have imagined it. These episodes recur. She deduces that her stepmother and her father's friend, Doctor Pierre Gerard, are plotting to drive her insane. Chauffeur, Bob, offers a sympathetic ear and feels there has to be some rational explanation for what has been happening.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P94QNCgZoA - DirectorSeth HoltStarsBette DavisWendy CraigJill BennettThere's just something not quite right when Bette Davis stars as an English nanny. And is her 10-year-old charge an emotionally disturbed murderer or just an insolent brat?Probably better described as a suspense film, The Nanny was well received by critics. It is based on a novel of the same name by Evelyn Piper. The lead is played by the incomparable Bette Davis (Nanny).
PLOT - An English nanny is appointed a rude 10 year old Joey, who was just discharged from a disturbed children's home. He'd spent two years undergoing treatment for drowning his little sister in the bath. He returns to an unloving father, fragile mother, and doting nanny - whom he hates. Suspicion arises again when his mother is poisoned, and Joey continues to insist Nanny is responsible. Joey contends the nanny was responsible for his little sister's death, and only the upstairs neighbour girl believes him.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAMjk6jPys - DirectorCyril FrankelStarsGwen WatfordPatrick AllenFelix AylmerIn Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.A thought provoking and deeply disturbing film. The themes are pedophilia, the sexual abuse of children and and the way in which those with sufficient pull can corrupt and manipulate the legal system to evade responsibility for their actions. The film is regarded as bold and uncompromising for its time in the way in which it handles the subject matter. (Never Take Candy from a Stranger - US)
PLOT - Peter Carter meets official resistance when he finds his nine year old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cITchZCLJFM - DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingHazel CourtRobert UrquhartWhile awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.This was Hammer's first colour horror film, and the first of their Frankenstein series loosely based on the Mary Shelley novel. Peter Cushing (Baron Victor Frankenstein) and Christopher Lee (The Creature) star.
PLOT - Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest how he and his mentor, Paul Krempe, had performed many scientific experiments, eventually leading to the resurrection of a dead body. The baron's obsession and the monster's homicidal nature cause the deaths of several of those around them. Finally the Baron is confronted by an enraged monster about to throw Victor's fiancée Elizabeth, from the castle parapet.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxNVNGydx5U - DirectorMatt ReevesStarsKodi Smit-McPheeChloë Grace MoretzRichard JenkinsA bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.This 2010 American-British romantic horror film is a remake of the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In.
PLOT - In Los Alamos, New Mexico, the twelve year-old Owen is a lonely and outcast boy bullied in school by Kenny and two other classmates; at home, Owen dreams of avenging himself against the trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old next door neighbor, Abby, who only appears during the night in the playground of their building. Meanwhile, Abby's father is a wanted serial-killer who drains the blood of his victims to supply Abby, who is actually an ancient vampire. Abby advises Owen to fight Kenny; however, soon he discovers that she is a vampire, and he feels fear and love for the girl. Meanwhile a police officer is investigating the murder cases, believing that it is a satanic cult.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pl481di_4 - DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsJames DonaldAndrew KeirBarbara ShelleyA mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.A British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions - a sequel to the earlier Hammer films The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass 2. Like its predecessors it is based on a BBC Television serial – Quatermass and the Pit. (Five Million Years to Earth - US)
PLOT - Whilst digging a new subway line in London, a construction crew discovers first: a skeleton and then what they think is an old World War II German missile. Upon closer examination the "missile" appears to be not of this earth, asking the age old question, how we came to be on this planet?
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zoz9MN0-Y4 - DirectorTerence FisherStarsChristopher LeeCharles GrayNike ArrighiDevil worshipers plan to convert two new victims.A film based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Dennis Wheatley and made on the insistence of Christopher Lee (Duc de Richleau). (The Devil's Bride - US)
PLOT - In the countryside of England, the Duc de Richleau aka Nicholas welcomes his old friend Rex Van Ryn that has flown to meet him and Simon Aron, who is the son of an old friend of them that had passed away but charged them the task of watching the youngster. Nicholas and Rex unexpectedly visit Simon that is receiving twelve mysterious friends. Sooner Nicholas, who is proficient in black magic, learns that the guests are member of a satanic cult and Simon and his friend Tanith Carlisle will be baptized by the powerful leader Mocata to serve the devil. The two friends abduct Simon and Tanith expecting to save their souls but Mocata summons the Angel of Death and the Goat of Mendes to help him in a battle between the good and the forces of evil.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZnuo1vuWU - DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingAndré MorellChristopher LeeWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.Based on the classic novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, It stars Peter Cushing (Sherlock Holmes), Christopher Lee (Sir Henry Baskerville) and André Morell (Doctor Watson). It is the first film adaptation of the novel to be filmed in colour and one of the most critically acclaimed films in Hammer Film Productions’ history.
PLOT - Returning to his family's manor house on the lonely moors after his father dies under mysterious circumstances, Sir Henry Baskerville is confronted with the mystery of the supernatural hound that supposedly takes revenge upon the Baskerville family. The famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson are brought in to investigate.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQRQ8MXqS10 - DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJohn LongdenSidney JamesProfessor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.Like its predecessor, it is based on the BBC Television serial Quatermass II written by Nigel Kneale. This was one of the first films (if not the very first) ever to use the number 2 as an indicator that it was the sequel to another film. (Enemy from Space - US)
PLOT - Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for Moon colonisation his project to colonize the Moon, is intrigued by the mysterious traces that have been showing up on his radar - meteorites crashing down?. Following them to the place where they should be landing he finds a destroyed village, a mysterious factory too close to his designs for the Moon colony for comfort, and some strange, aerodynamic objects containing a mysterious, ammonia-based gas that infects one of his assistants. Officially, the factory is producing synthetic food; but despite the veil of secrecy surrounding it Quatermass succeeds in finding out it harbours aliens with deadly designs on the Earth.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCwRzJQ0T7Y - DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJanette ScottOliver ReedSheila BurrellA man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.Based loosely on the 1949 crime novel, Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey. The great Oliver Reed (Simon Ashby) leads with Janette Scott (Eleanor Ashby) from The Day of the Triffids.
PLOT - Eleven years earlier, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide. All that remains of the family is cruel Simon, an alcoholic in desperate need of funds, his mentally fragile sister Eleanor and his protective aunt Harriet. Simon is just weeks away from receiving his inheritance, but there is a hitch in his plans when the long believed dead Tony Ashby suddenly returns.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc0CNisraao - DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingFrancis MatthewsEunice GaysonHaving escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.The sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein, the studio's 1957 adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. In 1958, the Daily Telegraph was so horrified by what they saw onscreen that they suggested the BBFC create a special new category for the film - "For Sadists Only".
PLOT - Having escaped death by the guillotine, Dr. Frankenstein relocates to Carlsbruck. There, as Dr. Victor Stein, he successfully establishes himself as a physician with a large practice and a hospital for the poor. After three years however, he is recognized by Dr. Hans Kleve but rather than expose him, the young doctor wants to join him in his research. Frankenstein has resumed his experiments and is on the verge of re-animating a body he has constructed using the brain of Fritz, the deformed assistant who helped him escape from his death sentence.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxrXFxOt5JA - DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingVeronica CarlsonFreddie JonesBaron 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.The film is the fifth in a series of Hammer films centering on Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing). Cushing deplored the inclusion of a controversial rape scene was added at the last minute, after shooting was nearly complete, because Hammer studio head Sir James Carreras thought the film "lacked sex".
PLOT - Baron Frankenstein is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Together with a young doctor, Karl and his fiancée Anna, they kidnap the mentally sick Dr. Brandt, to perform the first brain transplantation ever.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ylPaweSVfw - DirectorGuy GreenStarsPeter van EyckBetta St. JohnMandy MillerAlthough the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.This is the last film ever made by child actress Mandy Miller (Candy Brown) - famous for singing Nellie the Elephant.
PLOT - Paul Decker murders his wife in her Italian villa by drugging her milk and asphyxiating her by gas. He cleverly locks the bedroom from the inside and hides inside a trapdoor in the floor until after the body is discovered by servants. He uses a scuba snorkel connected to tubes on the outside to breathe during the ordeal. Decker's stepdaughter Candy suspects him immediately, especially since no suicide note was found. She also is convinced that he murdered her father years before, but her accusations fall on deaf ears. The ruthless Decker even poisons the family spaniel when the pet takes too great an interest in the mask and realizes he will ultimately have to get rid of Candy too.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWPsic-g2Jg - DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsMacdonald CareyShirley Anne FieldViveca LindforsAn American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.A Hammer Film production based on H.L. Lawrence's novel The Children of Light. English punk/Gothic band, The Damned took their name from this film.
PLOT - The middle-aged American Simon Wells sails in his boat to Weymouth and stumbles with the twenty year-old Joan on the street. He believes that she is a prostitute but she is actually part of a scheme of a motorcycle gang to rob tourists. Simon is brutally beaten up by her brother King and his gang. The policemen find the wounded Simon and take him to a bar to recover, where he meets the military Bernard and his mistress Freya Neilson. On the next morning, Joan challenges King and meets Simon in his boat, and King and his gang hunts Simon down. Joan and Simon spend the night together in an isolated house and on the morning, they are located by the gang. They try to flee and stumble in a top-secret military facility managed by Bernard. They are helped by children and brought to their hideout in a cave. King falls in the sea while chasing the couple and is also helped by a boy and brought to the same place. Soon Joan finds that the children are cold as if they were dead. What is the secret of the children and the military staff?
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YQer0sIHJ4 - DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingChristopher LeeYvonne FurneauxIn 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.Hammer Films had already done remakes of The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958). This was the first film made after Hammer reached an official agreement with Universal (then Universal International) allowing them to do remakes of their classic horror films
PLOT - In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka but accidentally bring the mummified body of her High Priest back to life. Three years later back in England a follower of the same Egyptian religion unleashes the mummy to exact grisly revenge on the despoilers of the sacred past.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTnkLTRR6v8 - DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingMartita HuntYvonne MonlaurVampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.The film is a sequel to Hammer's original Dracula (1958), though the vampires possess abilities denied to vampires in the previous film, much like those in the original novel. Besides Peter Cushing (Doctor Van Helsing), Miles Malleson (Doctor Tobler) is the only actor to appear in both this film and Dracula.
PLOT - A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr Van Helsing is already on his way.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GwHMCJERL4 - DirectorTerence FisherStarsClifford EvansOliver ReedYvonne RomainIn eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.Based on the novel The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore, the leading role of the werewolf was Oliver Reed's first credited film appearance. It is also the only Werewolf film ever made by Hammer.
PLOT - In Spain, Leon is born on Christmas day to a mute servant girl who was raped by a beggar. His mother dies giving birth and he is looked after by Don Alfredo. As a child Leon becomes a werewolf after having been taken hunting. As a young man, he works in a wine cellar and falls in love with the owner's daughter Cristina. One full moon, he again turns into a werewolf and terrifies the town.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRjMACFhs8 - DirectorTerence FisherStarsChristopher LeeBarbara ShelleyAndrew KeirTen years after his demise, Count Dracula is resurrected by his servant and preys on four unsuspecting English tourists who have taken shelter in his castle.This was the third entry in Hammer's Dracula series, and the second to feature Christopher Lee as the titular vampire. Lee said he found the lines given to this character so awful, that he chose to play the role silent.
PLOT - Two couples traveling in eastern Europe decide to visit Karlsbad despite dire local warnings. Left outside the village by a coachman terrified at the approach of night, they find themselves in the local castle and are surprised at the hospitality extended by the sinister Klove. It turns out the owner, Count Dracula, dead for ten years, has been hoping for such a visit.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg9w_5hdL3g - DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsDavid KnightMoira RedmondJennie LindenThe nights of young private-school student Janet are troubled by horrible dreams in which her mother, who is actually locked up in a mental institution, haunts her. When her persistent nightmares get her expelled and sent home, those visions insist on continuing to plague her at home.AllMovie called this film an "effective little chiller that packs a surprising punch for a film of its age."
PLOT - Janet is a young student at a private school; her nights are troubled by horrible dreams in which she sees her mother, who is in fact locked in an insane asylum, haunting her. Expelled because of her persistent nightmares, Janet is sent home where the nightmares continue.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YZ5H1ijssY - DirectorJohn GillingStarsAndré MorellDiane ClareBrook WilliamsDuring a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.This film's imagery was said to influence many later films in the zombie genre. The film was adapted into a 13-page comic strip for the October 1977 issue of the magazine House of Hammer.
PLOT - Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Thomson. Terrible things happen soon, beyond imagination or reality. Dead people are seen near an old, unused mine. Late people seem to live suddenly. Professor Forbes presumes that black magic is involved and someone has extraordinary power. He doesn't know how close he is: the dead become alive because of a magic voodoo-ritual, and so they must serve their master as mindless zombies.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oynquOmh3SM - DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsRalph BatesMartine BeswickGerald SimA Victorian scientist tests a serum that transforms him into a sensuous murderess.This is the third of three Hammer adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". The other two are The Ugly Duckling (1959) and The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960).
PLOT - In Victorian London, Dr. Henry Jekyll attempts to create an elixir of life using female hormones stolen from fresh corpses. He reasons that these hormones will wipe out all common diseases and extend his life since women live much longer than men. However, once Dr. Jekyll drinks the serum himself, he transforms into a gorgeous but evil woman. He soon needs female hormones for his serum to maintain, so a number of London women meet bloody deaths.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6D7bzltR2U - DirectorTerence FisherStarsPeter CushingSusan DenbergThorley WaltersAfter being reanimated, Baron Frankenstein transfers the soul of an executed young man into the body of his lover, prompting her to kill the men who wronged them.German-born model turned actress Susan Denberg, who plays the woman brought back to life, was the August 1966 Playboy centerfold - issued seven months before the release of this movie. It is the fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series.
PLOT - A dead and frozen Baron Frankenstein is re-animated by his colleague Dr. Hertz proving to him that the soul does not leave the body on the instant of death. His lab assistant, young Hans, is found guilty of murdering the local pub owner with whom he had an argument where he foolishly swore to kill the man and Frankenstein acquires his body immediately after the execution. Hans had been quite friendly with the dead man's daughter Christina who returns just in time to see him guillotined. Distraught, she commits suicide and is brought back to life by the good Doctor but with Hans' brain replacing her own. As memories return to her - Hans' memories in fact - she sets out to pursue and kill those responsible for having sent him to his death.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SKbAG0k7b0 - DirectorJohn HoughStarsPeter CushingDennis PriceMary CollinsonA religious sect led by Gustav Weil hunts all women suspected of witchcraft, killing a number of innocent victims. Young Frieda, Gustav's niece, will involve herself in a devilish cult, and become an instrument of Justice in the region.This is the third film of the Karnstein Trilogy, based on the vampire tale Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. Cast were the real-life twins and former Playboy Playmates Mary and Madeleine Collinson (Gellhorn Twins).
PLOT - In nineteenth century middle-Europe, orphaned teenage twins Maria and Frieda go to live with their uncle Gustav Weil, who heads the Brotherhood, a vigilante group trying to stamp out vampirism. But their methods are random and misplaced and the only result is a terrorised populace. The real threat lies with Count Karnstein, and although the twins seem outwardly to be identical, Frieda finds herself much more drawn than her sister to the Count's castle dominating the skyline.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW1GP5Y1kL8 - DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsChristopher LeeRupert DaviesVeronica CarlsonAfter a Monsignor accidentally brings Count Dracula back from the dead while exorcising his castle, the vampire preys on the holy man's beautiful niece and her friends.This was the fourth entry in Hammer's Dracula series, and the third to feature Christopher Lee as the titular vampire. It was Hammer's most profitable original film.
PLOT - A year after the events in Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Monsignor Ernest Mueller visits the village to ensure that all is well. He learns that the locals no longer attend mass, even though Dracula is dead, because the shadow of his castle touches the church and they feel that the castle still contains evil. To allay their fears, the Monsignor performs a ritual at the castle to rid it of all evil. The local village priest however accidentally reawakens the frozen Dracula who seeks his revenge on Monsignor Mueller, specifically targeting his niece Maria.
TRAILER - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k7sl9ni-Lk