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Woman in Black 2, The: Angel of Death (2014): Dir. Tom Harper
Feat. Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox; Sequel to the Daniel Radcliffe chiller is set forty years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, and this time the focus shifts to a group of…
Woman in Black, The (2012): Dir. James Watkins
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaran Hinds, Roger Allam…; A restrained yet genuinely chilling Gothic horror from the director of EDEN LAKE, with Daniel Radcliffe as a widowed young lawyer whose visit to a…
Resident, The (2011): Dir. Antti Jokinen
Feat. Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace…; Entirely watchable chiller has Hilary Swank suspecting she may not be alone in her new apartment. Produced by the revived "Hammer" label, Christopher…
Wake Wood (2011): Dir. David Keating
Feat. Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall…; The grieving parents of a young girl savaged to death by a dog are given the chance to return her to life, but only for three days, in this pagan…
Let Me In (2010): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins…; Justifiable American remake elevates the style and menace of the Swedish vampire hit with special attention paid to the relationship between a…
Flesh and Blood - The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994): Dir. Ted Newsom; A tour through the history of horror film specialists Hammer Studios, whose rise in the 1950s ushered in a new era for the genre. Narrated by Peter…
To the Devil...a Daughter (1976): Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski; A kinky occult thriller, produced in Hammer's twilight years, in which Kinski is prepared as a Satanic vessel.
Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Cushing; Fusion of Hammer horror and martial arts spectacle follows Peter Cushing's Van Helsen to China where he discovers ol' fangface lurking behind an…
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Shane Briant; The sixth and final installment of the Frankenstein series for Hammer Films was also the last for its director and star Peter Cushing as Victor…
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1972): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick; Delightfully camp turn on Stevenson's legendary fable of good and evil inhabiting the same body. Archetypal fun from Hammer studios.
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972): Dir. Alan Gibson
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Christopher Lee's Count incongruously schmoozes with the youth of the 1970s in his never–ending search for the red stuff. Peter Cushing turns…
Fear in the Night (1972): Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Peter Cushing, Joan Collins; Hammer chiller about a teacher and his insecure bride who encounter murder at a desolate school for boys.
Lust for a Vampire (1972): Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Yutte Stensgaard; Sexy sequel to 'The Vampire Lovers' in which Micalla resumes her blood–lusting reign at a Transylvanian girl's school.
Vampire Circus (1972): Dir. Robert Young
Feat. Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Anthony Higgins…; An even now brutal late Hammer set in plague–ridden 19th century Europe, where a small village unknowingly admits vampires disguised as a…
Blood From the Mummy's Tomb (1971): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Andrew Keir, James Villiers, Hugh Burden…; A superior late–Hammer Horror, concerning the reincarnation by a British research–team of an Egyptian priestess and the carnage resulting…
Demons of the Mind (1971): Dir. Peter Sykes
Feat. Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Sir Michael Hordern…; A Victorian baron imprisons his two children, believing them to be possessed. Enticing Hammer offering, laced with blood–and–roses…
Hands of the Ripper (1971): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Eric Porter, Dora Bryan; Atmospheric Hammer puts a Freudian spin on the exploits of Jack the Ripper, whose daughter inherits some of Dad's sharp handiwork. A pleasingly…
Twins of Evil (1971): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Cushing, Dennis Price; Final part of the 'Karnstein trilogy' (after THE VAMPIRE LOVERS and LUST FOR A VAMPIRE), climaxing in perhaps the most sexually–explicit of the…
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing; The fifth Hammer Frankenstein film focuses on Peter Cushing's Baron who tries brain surgery to save an associate who went mad. Followed in the series…
Horror of Frankenstein (1970): Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Ralph Bates; Camped–up, silly Hammer, in which Ralph Bates' Baron becomes murderously obsessive.
Scars of Dracula (1970): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Troughton; In search of his missing brother a man discovers the deadly lair of Count Dracula.
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Christopher Lee; Fourth Hammer installment of the black–caped Christopher Lee, this time meeting with a genuinely imaginative end.
Vampire Lovers (1970): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing; Hammer's famous lesbian–vampire pick made a cult star of the Polish–born volupte, Ingrid Pitt, as Carmilla. Esteemed…
Scream and Scream Again (1969): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
Devil Rides Out, The (1968): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee; Devilishly straight–faced Hammer with Christopher Lee orchestrating a scheme to save the life (and soul) of his long–time confidant from…
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee returns in fangs for a third Hammer bite at the vampire story.
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters; The fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series starring Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein and Susan Denberg as his new creation. Diverts away from…
Island of Terror (1966): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing; Peter Cushing stars in this Hammer sci–fi tale about cancer research gone awry.
Plague of the Zombies, The (1966): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell; Reasonably classy Hammer offering about a Cornish mine–operator who uses zombies as a workforce in his tin mine. Good misty atmospherics, with…
Reptile, The (1966): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Noel Willman, Ray Barrett; When villagers start dying from snake venom in Cornwall, things point suspiciously to the tinkerings of a strange doctor. Moody Hammer schlock.
Witches, The (1966): Dir. Cyril Frankel
Feat. Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen…; Hammer horror adapted by Nigel Kneale under the pseudonym Peter Curtis, and featuring the final big–screen film role for Joan Fontaine.
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee; Christopher Lee returns from the grave to intimidate a group of tourists in this belated sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA. Misses Peter Cushing, and the…
Nanny, The (1965): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett; Bette Davis' stoney ambivalence is well employed in this Hammer production as the malevolent/misunderstood minder of a disturbed child who has been…
She (1965): Dir. Robert Day
Feat. Ursula Andress; A scantily–clad Ursula Andress commands attention in this Hammer exotica as the love–starved eternal queen seeking reincarnation of her…
Evil of Frankenstein, The (1964): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, Duncan Lamont, David Hutcheson; Number three in the renowned Hammer horror Frankenstein series set in an isolated castle. The Baron (Cushing) and his assistant, in need of help to…
Gorgon, The (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco…; A small village falls prey to an unseen monster. Citizens are found turned to stone after every full moon. The town Doctor (Peter Cushing) concludes…
Nightmare (1964): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. David Knight, Moira Redmond, Brenda Bruce…; Psychological horror about a young girl (Jennie Linden, WOMEN IN LOVE) living at a private school who is plagued by nightmares involving her mother,…
Phantom of the Opera (1964): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Herbert Lom, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough…; British Hammer Horror production adapting the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. The studio was hoping to ride on the previous huge success of the 1943…
Kiss of the Vampire (1963): Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza…; An ominous and highly–regarded Hammer horror in which a honeymooning couple are stranded in Bavaria where they become embroiled in the…
Paranoiac (1963): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell; A Hitchcockian thriller from Hammer studio about a man long believed dead (Oliver Reed) who returns to the family estate, a palatial mansion near…
Night Creatures (Captain Clegg) (1962): Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen…; Hammer horror set in 18th–century England, where a captain of the Royal Navy is sent to investigate reports of illegal activity in a coastal…
Curse of the Werewolf, The (1961): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans; Hammer horror based on the novel "The Werewolf of Paris" by Guy Endore and starring Oliver Reed as the werewolf in his first credited film…
Scream of Fear (Taste of Fear) (1961): Dir. Seth Holt
Feat. Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis…; Christopher Lee's favourite Hammer film in exercise in sustained tension with Susan Strasberg as a paralysed young woman haunted by visions of her…
Brides of Dracula (1960): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt; Recognised as one of Hammer Studios' best horrors, this acclaimed sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA reconvenes director/actor team Fisher and Cushing. This…
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959): Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Michael Gough, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen…; Well–acted Hammer horror about a writer who uses his hypnotised helper to commit a series of inventively gruesome killings.
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell…; Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
Mummy, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
Horror of Dracula (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing; Quintessential Hammer horror is the first of six films with the peerless pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as the razor–fanged Count…
Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn…; One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; The first true Hammer gothic horror and number one in the Frankenstein series bringing together the fantastic talents of Cushing (as the Baron) and…
Horror of Hammer, The: Brilliant collection of movie trailers from Hammer Studios horror heyday in the 1950s and 60s. Includes all the classics, plus two featurettes…

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