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In Review: The Quiet Ones

by Daniel Goodwin 4 April 2014

After justifying their reanimation with decent adaptations Let Me In (2010) and The Woman in Black (2012), Hammer’s latest film, The Quiet Ones, is a lopsided swerve

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More Hammer Classics To Screen on Horror Channel in March

by Martyn Conterio 14 February 2014

Last month we gave you the skinny on Horror Channel’s rather ace decision to run a month of Hammer horror double bills on consecutive Saturday nights. Well, we’ve got an update for you: there’s going to be more Hammer films screened throughout March!

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Horror Channel To Air Hammer Double Bills

by Martyn Conterio 15 January 2014

Get your Hammer Horror on in February with a series of Hammer Films classics screened in the ‘double bill’ format. Horror Channel will be celebrating the notorious crimes and terror plagues of Count Dracula, Frankstein and his monsters, The Mummy and mad satanists in a weekly, month-long run of the British studio’s celebrated work.

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In Review: The Curse of Frankenstein on Blu-ray

by Joshua Searle 5 November 2012

It’s hard to imagine now, but in 1957 The Human Centipede didn’t exist and there hadn’t been 7 Saws and 3 Hostels. In fact, the most gruesome thing cinema-punters had were Universal’s Dracula and Frankenstein cycles, films that were slowly closing in on their 30th anniversaries.

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In Review: Frankenweenie

by Mark Searby 11 October 2012

Back in 1984 a young director by the name of Tim Burton released a short film called “Frankenweenie”, about a dog corpse being re-animated by its owner. Here we see a teenage Victor Frankenstein, voiced by relative newcomer Charlie Tahan, bring back to life his bull terrier Sparky via the means of a scientific experiment.

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Special Report: Dracula Prince of Darkness (1966)

by Mike Richardson 29 February 2012

After a trip to the blood donors, the kindly nurses and doctors generally suggest taking it easy and drinking plenty of liquids, yet last Friday my post-donation time was spent in a disused crypt in the bowels of London Waterloo instead; in the company of Hammer Horror

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