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Peter Cushing returns as vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing in Hammer Films’ 1960 horror film Brides of Dracula, Terence Fisher’s first sequel to the 1958 Dracula, but David Peel replaces Christopher Lee as chief vampire […]
Director Freddie Francis’s 1975 British horror movie is an unusual, strenuous tale of terror in the attic, with the odd imaginative touch glittering among a generous helping of horror-movie clichés. Anthony Hinds’s plot is certainly […]
Director Vernon Sewell’s 1967 mad scientist horror movie made for Britain’s Tigon studios is all about Victorian insect scientist Dr Carl Mallinger (Robert Flemyng), who creates a creature while working with genetics. The canny creature […]
A strong cast bolsters co-writer/ director Jimmy Sangster’s sporadically frightening and sometimes inventive 1972 Hammer Films shocker. Judy Geeson stars as a nervy young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown who is terrorised by strange […]
‘A Monster With the Power to Turn Living Screaming Flesh Into Stone!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 Hammer horror The Gorgon has an eerie touch in its story about the snake-haired mythical creature The Gorgon taking […]
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is a tolerable experience, but the mix of Michael Carreras’s British Hammer horror and Hong Kong film producer Run Run Shaw’s kung fu is uneasy, to say the […]
Hammer Films’ misguided and lame-brained effort to modernise the Dracula tale to the supposedly still swinging London of the early Seventies fails on nearly every count. The 1972 British horror film Dracula AD 1972 is […]