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 ...

AS ONE of the most important and productive independent film studios in British cinema history, Hammer deserves its time in ...

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

If you say the words “Hammer Horror”, film lovers of a certain ... along with its spiritual successor, 1958’s Dracula. Both films had some difficulty in obtaining permission from Universal ...

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

The looming use of AI in film and television ... MovieBy Tim Lammers Hammer, of course, created their own iterations of such storied horror characters as Count Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein ...

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 ...

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 ...

Heretic is pure British Gothic in all but name—and Grant’s reclusive Reed is every bit as raffish as Gothic forebears Uncle ...

Peter Cushing, who played Van Helsing to Christopher Lee’s Dracula in the Hammer Horror films, was of a similar mind. In a 1973 BBC interview, he said: “Horror to me is a film like the ...