Hammer's Dracula was released in the USA (where it was known as Horror of Dracula) on 8 May, 1958, and in the UK a few weeks later, on 16 June, 1958, with an 'X' certificate, signifying 'For ...

There will be blood: Christopher Lee in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) - Atlaspix/Alamy If you say the words “Hammer Horror”, film lovers of a certain age will feel an immediate Proustian ...

ForbesDanny Elfman On Whether ‘Nightmare’ Is A Christmas Or Halloween MovieBy Tim Lammers Hammer, of course, created their own iterations of such storied horror characters as Count Dracula ...

Christopher Lee appeared in many iconic horror movies, often for Hammer, but there was one Dracula movie he thought had a ...

Fangs worn by actor Christopher Lee for a 1950s film version of Dracula and the head of a legendary movie alien are among the ...

Hammer’s music supervisor Philip Martell hired the avant-garde composers of the day – the likes of Malcolm Williamson (later ...

Under Hammer Horror, Lee picked up the mantle from the likes of Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney as cinema's best monster, where he played the roles of the Mummy, Frankenstein's Creature and, most ...

In Hammer Films' Classic 1958 Horror of Dracula, or simply Dracula as it was known in the UK, Peter Cushing, as Van Helsing ...

HORROR fans can immerse themselves in the history of Hammer Films this Halloween with the premiere of a highly anticipated documentary. Narrated by celebrated actor Charles Dance OBE, Hammer ...

As with Mark Twain and Count Dracula, rumours of horror specialist Hammer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. The British film company, which first shook up cinema in the late 50s with its ...

There were endless Dracula and Frankenstein sequels (as ... in her 1978 single sang: “Hammer Horror won’t leave me alone”. We will never get another equivalent of the Cushing and Lee ...