Kiss Of The Vampire is one of my favourite Hammer horror movies, even though it does not feature either Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing. I watched it again recently on YouTube and it really holds up well. It takes the basic set-up template of a great many vampire movies (ie a young couple break down…
The House Of Hammer
This was one of my favourite magazines back in the 1970s. The House of Hammer was a UK magazine, which originally ran from 1976 to 1978. It went through a few name changes along the way, becoming Hammer’s House of Horror, then Hammer’s Halls of Horror. Its unique selling point was that it featured black…
Horror movie books
Denis Gifford’s A Pictorial History Of Horror Movies was the first movie-related book I ever bought. This would have been back in the 70s. It was quite instrumental, in retrospect, in me developing a love of movies in general, and horror movies in particular. I still have my copy! Author Gifford shows great affection for…
One Million Years BC
One Million Years BC is one of the better-loved non-horror movies that Hammer Films produced in the 60s, and with good reason. It has two main selling points: Ray Harryhausen’s fabulous stop-motion dinosaurs (state-of-the-art in the days before CGI), and Raquel Welch in a fur bikini! In the light of those, who cares that the…
The Curse of the Werewolf
This is one of my favourites of the posters I still own. I remember first seeing this image in an 80s magazine called ‘The House of Hammer’, which featured rather cool black and white comic strip versions of the classic Hammer films. These were really well illustrated and I have still got what I…