50 Years Of Hammer Horror

Author : John L. Flynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976940081
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Years of Hammer Horror written by John L. Flynn and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Years of Hammer Horror by John L. Flynn, Ph.D. is the follow-up book to his popular 75 Years of Universal Monsters. Hammer Film Productions was the most successful independent film company in the world. Between 1935 and 1983, the company produced more than 250 motion pictures and television shows, and their signature productions headlined theater marquees all around the globe. Those productions included thrillers, comedies, historical dramas, and science fiction. The company was best known for its series of gothic horror films, now termed Hammer Horror, that were produced from the late Fifties to the middle Seventies. During those nineteen years, from 1957 to 1976, Hammer Films reigned supreme as the world's premier producer of horror movies, enjoying worldwide financial success and creative freedom. Chief among its box office successes were new incarnations of Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, the Werewolf, the Phantom of the Opera, and many others. In fact, Hammer emerged as the successor to Universal Pictures' horror film legacy. Virtually, every creature-feature Universal had filmed in black-and-white monochrome, Hammer remade in glorious Eastman Technicolor. This book is a celebration of the small independent studio that changed the look of horror films forever.

Author : Howard Maxford
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hammer, House of Horror written by Howard Maxford and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its heyday during the Fifties, Sixties and early Seventies, Hammer Films produced a legacy of horror films such as Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Quatermass Experiment, featuring stars who included Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Bette Davis, Ursula Andress, Raquel Welch, Stephanie Beacham and Julie Ege. This book provides a chronological, film-by-film history of the studio, from its obscure beginnings in the 1930s to its decline and virtual disappearance five decades later. It includes coverage of the pre-horror, science-fiction films of the 1950s, and post-horror comedy of the 1980s, with complete credits for all Hammer films.

Author : Sinclair McKay
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thing of Unspeakable Horror written by Sinclair McKay and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to tie in with the celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first Hammer Horror feature, this is a history of the studio that transformed the British horror movie into an international brand.

Author : Marcus Hearn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1848562292
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hammer Glamour: Classic Images From the Archive of Hammer Films written by Marcus Hearn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee 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 and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full colour celebration of Hammer’s female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in One Million Years B. C.?)

Author : Wayne Kinsey
Publisher : Tomahawk Press (GA)
ISBN 13 : 9780953192625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hammer Films written by Wayne Kinsey and published by Tomahawk Press (GA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Peter Hutchings, Northumbria University. Wayne Kinsey reveals the story of Hammer Films from 1967 to the present day, following the highs and lows of the company as it bedded into its new home at Elstree Studios. Based on extensive oral history recording with Hammer personnel, the book describes in fascinating detail how the studio would plummet from one of the most successful British film companies and proud recipients of the Queen's Award for Industry, to the depths of bankruptcy within a single decade. As the British Censor relaxed, Hammer took full advantage, steeping their films in the seventies with sex and nudity as well as ever increasing gore. Even better than Kinseys previous volume, the acclaimed "Hammer Films: The Bray Studios Years", this book is heavily illustrated throughout by rare, never before published photographs and documents, many taken behind the scenes of the famous "House that Dripped Blood".

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604215
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hammer Films' Psychological Thrillers, 1950-1972 written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Film's is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company's very best films. This book takes a chronological, film-by-film approach to all of Hammer's thrillers. Well-known classics such as Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) and Taste of Fear (1961) are discussed, together with less well known but equally brilliant films such as The Full Treatment (dir. Val Guest, 1960) and Michael Carreras' Maniac (1963). The films' literary ancestry, reflection of British society and relation to psychological theories of Freud and Jung, architectural metaphor, sexuality, religion, and even Nazi atrocities are all fully explored.

Author : Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602018
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women of Hammer Horror written by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hammer studio is best known for its horror film output from the mid-1950s through the 1970s. This book provides facts about the hundreds of actresses who appeared in those films, including ones released in the twenty-first century by a resurgent Hammer. Each woman's entry includes her Hammer filmography, a brief biography if available, and other film credits in the horror genre. The book is illustrated with more than 60 film stills and posters.

Author : Jack Hunter
Publisher : Cult Movie Files
ISBN 13 : 9781902588247
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Eyes of Blood written by Jack Hunter and published by Cult Movie Files. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meteoric rise of Hammer Films as a force in world horror cinema resulted from the release of 1958's seminal film, Dracula, starring Christopher Lee. Lee became the most famous incarnation of the vampire Count ever, in a series of stylish films spanning 16 years. Eyes of Blood is a complete visual tribute to Lee's magnetic and enduring portrayal of Dracula, featuring over 50 rare production photographs covering all seven of the classic horror movies, plus a section of stunning poster art with 20 full-colour images. Each film is reviewed in full, with details of cast and crew

Author : Ian Carroll
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727738797
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hammer Horror - The Movie Fans Have Their Say #1 written by Ian Carroll and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For me, the Hammer films were some of the first ever horror films that I ever got to watch - coupled with the Universal 'monster movies' on BBC2, usually on Saturday late-night double bills. They were much more than just films, they were the beginning of a life long adoration of all things Hammer - the movies, the music, the clothing, the collectables - all were things of great joy for me, from being a child right up until now. We found a newsagent who was willing to sell the 'goriest' magazine on his shelves to myself and my friend - two children at the local Primary School. My parents were surprisingly ok about it, especially my mother who was a massive horror movie fan and so she saw it as the norm, which was lucky for me. So the magazines were folded out - after I read them from cover to cover - and the posters were displayed on my bedroom walls; I can recall having Christopher Lee as 'Dracula' and 'Vampire Circus' up on my walls at the time, in the mid '70s. So, with the start of the Horror Double Bills on BBC2, I got to lap up two films every week on a Saturday night, from the Universal Classic Monster Movies to timeless horror gems to my favourites of all, the Hammer Horror Films. I watched each double bill - with my parents - every time they were on, usually with a cup of hot chocolate made by my father; the season would go on for a few months and then sadly come to an end, returning again later in the year. Due to no video recorders way back then, we watched the films and that was it, until I had the idea of recording the full films soundtrack on my cassette player - which usually fitted perfectly on a C90 cassette - and then listening to them again and again, trying to remember the visuals that went with them. The one that I recollect listening to the most was the tape that I did of 'Vampire Circus', which is probably why it has remained my favourite Hammer film to this day - having recently purchased it on Blu-Ray from France. Years later, with the introduction of VHS Video Recorders, our family joined the 'space age' and I was able to record and watch the Hammer films whenever I wanted to, usually later in the evening when most of the programmes that my family wanted to watch had finished. Then with the beginning of the DVD age, I started to replace all of the films that I had purchased or recorded on VHS cassettes, with shiny new DVD's - I was over the moon. I then purchased a DVD recorder and recorded the films direct from the TV - the ones that I couldn't find to purchase on original DVD's. Finally we came to where we are now with the start of the Blu-Ray generation and I began to replace the DVD Hammer Films with the newer and much shinier Blu-Ray format. The Blu-Ray's all tended to come with many extras - documentaries, trailers, interviews, commentaries and stills galleries - it was now unbelievable, but greatly received!!! My fascination with Hammer continues, buying films, t-shirts, bags, books and autographs. I have also met several of the stars at film and collectors fairs including - Caroline Munro, Dave Prowse and the late Francis Matthews. So, we finally come to this book, which you are reading right now. It's been a true labour of love and I have really enjoyed getting acquainted with other like minded fans, who have all been very positive about the book and are looking forward to it's release - there have though been only a couple that have been negative about it and if you're reading this you know who you are, but if you are actually reading this, thanks to you too! This is only Book #1 in a new series of 'Movie Review Books', with other favourites of mine to follow over the coming years, hope you like them as much as I do and find them very educational if you are new to the joys of all things Hammer!!! Thanks and keep watching Hammer films!!!

Author : John McCarty
Publisher : Carol Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Horror Film written by John McCarty and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McCarty has selected fifty outstanding examples of the modern horror film. Film buffs will relive the terrors they enjoyed on the screen! Each of the fifty films is documented with casts, credits, production notes and reviews.