THE HORRORS OF IT ALL (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
AYEEEE--YAAAAA! It's another incredibly mean spirited tale from the November 1953 issue of Strange Mysteries #14 , and seriously, I challenge anyone to find another post in the THOIA Archive featuring a bitch as cruel as todays "Flame Widow." +++++++++++++++++++++++ HAMMER GLAMOUR by Marcus Hearn Fans of Hammer horror, or just fans of beautiful women in general will want to pick up this stunning...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee's iconic performance in Dracula, Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely-restrained cleavage in glorious colour, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous. Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer's archive...
Ceridwenscauldron (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
I went to the opening night of the Hammer Festival at the Idea Generation Gallery in Shoreditch. It was brilliant as there were lots of photographs and posters from the Hammer Horror films that I grew up watching. And some great new in that the company is now back in production and their first new film The Resident will be out next year starring Christopher Lee who received his long overdue knighthood...
Cup Of Joe Powell (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The British film company Hammer Films, which gave us the timeless performances of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as well as a vast army of horror films is back in business. The company is back with several new projects, and late in September of this year their huge archive of movies got a boost with a gorgeous book of lush photos called " Hammer Glamour ", filled with rare and unpublished...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The fine folks at Titan Books are poised to soon launch Hammer Glamour - a guide to the female stars of the iconic British horror factory - and they've offered up three copies of the new tome to readers of Twitch. Want one? Easy enough. Just email me the name of the vixen staring at you off the cover. Winners will be drawn November 1st. Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein...
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
(TrendHunter.com) Titan books is releasing a lookbook of rare and previously unpublished images of sexy 1960s and 1970s horror genre pinup girls titled ‘Hammer Glamour’. Every section of the eye-catching collection contains…
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
News: Nucleus Films have announced the UK DVD release of Ghost Story on 9th November 2009. This 1974 British chiller from director Stephen Weeks is set in 1930's England where it tells of three former public schoolmates, Larry Dann (The Bill), Murray Melvi...
Monster Rally (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Halloween... Little Girl Dressed as a Witch @ Vintage Postcard Blog Those Darn Halloween Teens @ Neato Ghoulville Today at Disneyland: Halloween Time 2009 @ Laura's Misc. Musings a witch from canada's Flying Witches Props @ Halloween Forum Dracula a Go-Go @ Retrospace Monsterphemera... Barbara Shelley @ E TENEBRIS IN LUCEM 31 Screams: Barbara Shelley @ Arbogast on Film Roller Maidens From Outer Space...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
And now for screaming completely different. The character that Barbara Shelley plays in QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (US: FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH, 1967) has always intrigued me. By this point in her...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
A non-vampire movie with the word 'vampire' in the title! A vicious mad scientist whose thirst for blood knows no bounds! He finishes where Dracula left off!
sOmEThiNg foR thE wEEkenD, SIR? (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
I suppose, if I am to be honest, it was a combination of things that caught my attention with these films. The 'horror' was all very gothic, which I liked, often very tongue in cheek, sometimes bloody silly if not absurd with some afwul effects and often a little camp. However, I would always watch then with eyes glued to the screen. I think another part of me, the young adolescent with lust in his...
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
The Kiss of the Vampire (1963) Director: Don Sharp By Marilyn Ferdinand Among the producers of horror, Britain’s Hammer Film Productions is in a class by itself. With its stable of talent, including actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee,...
No Smoking in the Skull Cave (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
The Sharp Side (Free subscription) | 09/05/2007
I think we can all agree it's a pretty sick society in which the main government-sponsored television channel entertains the masses with a movie in which a transgressive woman is beheaded. And the message of the movie is that this was the only thing to do and that it was the correct but regrettable way of dealing with a particularly difficult woman who goes on making trouble for others . Or to put...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 08/23/2007
Barry Murphy once more trawls the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from Friday...
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