#hammer film

[gurumog]

The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) Hammer Film Productions Dir. Freddie Francis

Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein

[screamscenepodcast]

At last, your deadicated hosts make it to the first werewolf picture in colour: it's THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961) from Terence Fisher! Starring Oliver Reed and adapting Guy Endore's THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS (1933), how does the film's lycanthropy stack up against the tried-and-true formula in past iterations?

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 44:28; Discussion 58:14; Ranking 1:25:52

[keepitcult]

Dracula A.D. 1972

[schlock-luster-video]

On January 8, 1965, The Evil of Frankenstein debuted in West Germany.

[scrivnomancer]

Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

[theanoninyourinbox]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN Y'ALL

HAVE ME AND THE @mommyclan GANG, INCLUDING THE CHURCH FAMILY, IN THEIR COSTUMES!

We got me in my costume as a cryptid hunter - I am wearing those socks as I type; Draculapaw as Christopher Lee Hammer Films Dracula - it's also his first birthday in Mommyclan canon! Happy birthday me boy; Jawbreaker as Walker Texas Ranger - if he lets go of the belt it will fall Right Off; Yma Sidhe as classic crazy Doomguy - she does not know how to casual hold a shotgun lol; Grandpops Lugosi as Hudson from Gargoyles - Lu sounds like Ed Asner but not Scottish, that's Sid's area of expertise; Dr Miyo as Sally the witch, the first officially recognized Magical Girl - she has many magical girl costumes she pulls out for her Cat Instagram; and Doomguy in a Kigurumi - he woke up in the costume and is very confused.

Go Forth And Have Fun!

[esonetwork]

These Are The Damned | Episode 370

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These Are The Damned | Episode 370

Jim discusses a little known Hammer Film from 1961 – “These Are The Damned” a.k.a. “The Damned,” directed by Joseph Losey and starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Ann Field, Oliver Reed, Viveca Lindfors and Alexander Knox. An American tourist crosses paths with a young woman while on vacation which irks her brother who is the leader of a motorcycle gang. All this leads to a secret military project that holds a terrible secret. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

[scary-movies-on-netflix]

THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970)

This one has a prologue.  A certain Count Hartog lays an ambush for a vampire lady who killed his sister.  He lures the vampire to his trap by taking her scarf, but she almost bites him to death.  However, her bosom presses against his crucifix necklace, and she is repulsed!  He hacks off her head.

We then jump to the 1790s in Styria, which was a part of Austria.  We’re at a party held by a “General” of some sort, and he is played by Peter Cushing!  His daughter is Laura.  A countess drops by, but then an ominous man appears and talks to her.  The countess must leave, but can she leave her daughter, Marcilla, behind?  The general agrees.  Laura befriends Marcilla, but Laura then starts to have nightmares and suffer from anemia, and she dies!  A doctor sees two puncture bites upon her bosom.  Because she was killed by a vampire, and the vampire is Marcilla!

We next jump over to Emma, a friend of the late Laura.  The countess reappears, and she finagles to have Marcilla stay with her, except now her name is Carmilla!  We then have a repeat of what happened at Laura’s house, except we spend more time with Emma.  She has a governess, a Mademoiselle Perrodot, who is trying to teach Emma German, but Emma is stupid.  She spends more and more time with Carmilla, and they have to take off their clothes for various reasons.  Emma’s father heads off to Vienna for business, and Perrodot is left in charge.  Emma begins to fall sick, like Laura, and Carmilla seduces Perrodot, who does nothing to help the poor Emma!  Eventually, the household staff grow concerned, and the lead butler fetches the doctor (the same one who attended to Laura).  They put a crucifix around Emma’s neck and decorate her room with garlic.  Carmilla tries to enter, and she does a funny double take at all the garlic before backing out.

Emma’s father has returned by this point and is waiting for the doctor to come back.  Unfortunately, Carmilla has killed him!  (She’s also killed some local women, as well.)  The father goes to look for the man, but he comes across the general from earlier, who is accompanied by Baron Hartog!  A young man is sent to check in on Emma, and the other men head toward the abandoned Karnstein estate to find the vampire, for reasons.  (Hartog explains that the entire family was vampires, and he spent a night digging them up and driving stakes into their hearts, but there was one he could not find.) 

At the house, Carmilla seduces the butler and gets him to remove all the anti-vampire stuff, and then she kills him.  She’s about to run off with Emma, killing Perrodot along the way, but the young man appears.  She’s going to kil him, but he holds aloft a dagger like a crucifix and drives her off.  She then casts “misty step” and disappears.  At the Karnstein estate, the other men find the tomb for Mircalla Karnstein, but it’s empty.  Inside the house, they see a painting of this Mircalla, and they realize that she is Marcilla and Carmilla!  They find her coffin buried under the floor and take it to the chapel.  They open it.  Mircalla is inside because I guess she materialized there?  Anyway, Peter Cushing drives a stake through her heart and then chops off her head.  The portrait of Mircalla transforms into a fanged skull, much like the painting from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945).  Laura is avenged, Emma is safe, but the main vampire dude remains free to carry out his nefarious plans.

This was…really not good.  There is, naturlich, a strong element of homoeroticism in Mircalla’s interactions with the various women of the cast.  Mircalla tells Emma, “I want you to love me, for all your life,” but Emma is confused.  In any case, it’s impossible to tell if Mircalla is sincere, because she then seduces Perrodot.  So, instead of vampiric lesbianism being a commentary on, well, anything, it’s just there for titillation.  Cinema-wise, there are a few really strong images, such as where the shadow of Mircalla's hand reaches out toward a victim. The shot of Peter Cushing lowering Mircalla's head back into the coffin is actually beautiful, like a painting. The actors do what they can, and they certainly have screen presence, but the script is silly.  There were two sequels to this, but I don’t want to watch them.

[kino51]

 Crescendo 1970

[filmreveries]

“If you only knew how little I know about the things that matter.”

Call Me By Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[mxtheo3]

Of course i watch movies for the plot

THE PLOT :

[gurumog]

The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) Hammer Film Productions Dir. Freddie Francis

Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein Sandor Elès as Hans

[weirdlookindog]

The Shadow of the Cat (1961)

[loveisdumb]

THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970) dir. roy ward baker

[schlock-luster-video]

On June 5, 1970, The Horror of Dracula debuted in Sweden.

[toboldlymuppet]

hammer dracula films, my beloved have some vintage old man yaoi