From the opening shot of These are the Damned (The Damned in the UK), you get a sense of the youth’s disaffection of the early 60s, when the film was… Read More »Love Letter to Hammer Horror: These are the Damned
By: Beverley Price Peter Cushing, concerned about being typecast in horror roles, found a different opportunity with Hammer. The production company had acquired the rights to remake Roy William Neill’s Doctor… Read More »Love Letter to Hammer Horror: Captain Clegg
By: Beverley Price When I started this little (ha!) run of articles, I was expecting to highlight some of the lesser-known films amongst the Hammer great. What I was not expecting… Read More »Love letter to Hammer Horror: The Shadow of the Cat
Hammer is about to enter its golden age of gothic horror when it decides to take on Lon Chaney’s Wolfman. The branding of Hammer as horror masters was becoming cemented… Read More »Love Letter to Hammer Horror: The Curse of the Werewolf
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and is a bit of a challenge to… Read More »Love Letter to Hammer Horror: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll