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Cover of Mon Film No. 69 (France), dated 23 April 1958, showing a composite image of Christopher Lee and Hazel Court in Frankenstein s'est échappé (literally Frankenstein Has Escaped - The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957).
@Kensington_Gore I liked the abridgements of classic literature for older kids, too. When I was little they cost about 80p or 90p, and I'd spend my pocket money on them. They were my initiation into horror, too.
When someone tells me this new film or that has 'a bit of a Hammer vibe,' it's always 50/50 to me whether they're alluding to Man About the House (1974). https://t.co/dY5a6S84t3
7pm tonight (Sunday 30 January) on @TalkingPicsTV, perhaps the finest horror anthology film ever made: DEAD OF NIGHT (1945), starring Michael Redgrave, Googie Withers and Mervyn Johns.
Sublime cover illustration by Nathanael Marsh for Kim Newman's BFI Film Classics monograph on the 1967 Hammer sci-fi Quatermass and the Pit. More of Marsh at https://t.co/Iexj2LJVfC.
Stunning Hammer horror poster art by illustrator Daryl Joyce. Prints on sale at https://t.co/aBsufoOXgR.
On this day in 1956, Hammer Films bought the rights to Nigel Kneale's 1955 BBC teleplay The Creature, which they filmed the following year as The Abominable Snowman. Val Guest directed, and both Peter Cushing and Arnold Marlé reprised their TV roles.
Four posters for the 1966 Hammer horror film THE REPTILE (1966), starring Blake's 7's Servalan, Jacqueline Pearce. Now streaming on @BritBox_UK.