This 1970 British horror movie is one that promises rather more than it delivers. It was the first film which included all three of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in its cast. Its really Price’s movie though. He plays a mad scientist, who creates ‘composites’ from body parts (and is revealed to be…
The Satanic Rites Of Dracula
1973’s The Satanic Rites Of Dracula is the last of the Hammer Dracula series. It gets something of a bad rep, but I rather enjoyed it. Having brought Dracula into the twentieth century with the previous Dracula AD72, which had a striking title but little else to recommend it, the producers gave Dracula rather more…
Castle Of Frankenstein
Here some copies of a vintage American horror magazine that I picked up recently very cheaply in France, of all places. Castle Of Frankenstein ran for 25 issues between 1962 and 1975. It was at the time the only nationally distributed magazine which covered B-movies seriously, in addition to both classic and current horror movies….
Dracula Prince Of Darkness
This is another French ‘grande’ poster, this time for the direct sequel to Hammer’s original Dracula. I remember liking this film a lot when I first saw it on one of the late night horror double bills that the BBC used to run (typically a genteel black and white Universal monster movie followed…
The Face Of Fu Manchu
Here’s a poster and a movie from a very different era…. I remember catching the series of Christopher Lee’s Fu Manchu movies on afternoon television in the 70s. They were obviously considered harmless escapist fare, suitable for kids. Back in the day, it was fine for a Caucasian actor to put on “Asian” eye…
The Mummy / The Mummy’s Shroud
Here’s two Belgian posters for films in Hammer’s Mummy series. The original Mummy is supposed to be as something of a classic but my memory of it is that it was painfully slow and rather dull, notwithstanding it being one of the relatively few Hammer films to star both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing….
Hammer presents Dracula / The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Once upon a time I used to listen to this pair of records quite a lot. The Dracula album has one side with an original vampire story narrated by Christopher Lee, whilst the other has ominous theme music from various Hammer films. The story had an intro that began with something like “you think you…
Dracula AD72
No, that’s not a typo above. This is a memorable (albeit late) poster for a not so memorable addition to the Hammer Dracula saga. Dracula AD72 retains a certain kitsch charm, has a very good opening sequence, set in 1872, and brings back Peter Cushing to the Dracula franchise alongside Christopher Lee, but after…