Hammer Film Productions

...anxieties," says Kevin Howley, a media studies professor at DePauw University in Indiana. After Hammer Films in Britain gave makeovers to the classic monsters in the late '50s and early '60s, with actors like Christopher Lee and Peter...

In this article: Wheeler Winston Dixon, Night of the Living Dead, The Blair Witch Project, World War II, Horror movies, Frankenstein, and Dracula

...movies and television programmes. James Carreras, the boss of Hammer Films, saw one of her photographs in a newspaper and offered her a role opposite Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. She was best-known in the late 1960s...

In this article: Veronica Carlson, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Hammer Films, Christopher Lee, The Horror of Frankenstein, Yorkshire, England, and South Carolina

Hammer glamour: A history of horror's leading ladies Hammer Film Productions is most commonly associated with launching the horror careers of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing In the 60's the company gained as much notoriety for its...

In this article: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt, U.S., London, E mail, Frankenstein, Rosemary's Baby, and Night of the Living Dead

...lust of the walking undead everywhere. This updated vampiric tale produced by Hammer Films stars Sir Christopher Lee as Count Dracula and Peter Cushing as the inimitable Professor Van Helsing. The score nods modernity by pitting...

In this article: Christopher Lee, Count Dracula, Count Dracula, Laurie Johnson, Dracula, Caroline Munro, Hammer Films, Van Helsing, and Orchestration

...it. Tanith is found to be alive - Mocata's soul has been exchanged for hers. In 1968 the novel was made into a film by the British film company Hammer Film Productions. It starred Christopher Lee as de Richleau and Charles Gray as Mocata.

In this article: The Devil Rides Out, Dennis Wheatley, Charles Gray, Christopher Lee, Europe, and London

..."Rosemary's Baby" the scariest film he's ever seen. That may explain his attraction to upcoming psychological chiller "The Resident," his first Hammer film in more than 30 years. Starring Hilary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the movie...

In this article: Christopher Lee, Dracula, Hammer film, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, E mail, Count Dracula, The Wicker Man, Roman Polanski, and U.S.

Rasputin, the Mad Monk Rasputin, the Mad Monk is a 1966 Hammer film directed by Don Sharp. It stars Christopher Lee as Grigori Rasputin, the Russian peasant-mystic notable for gaining great influence with the Tsars prior to the Russian...

In this article: Grigori Rasputin, Richard Pasco, Rasputin, the Mad Monk, Felix Yusupov, Derek Francis, Dinsdale Landen, Francis Matthews, Renee Asherson, Christopher Lee, and Barbara Shelley

...for Count Yorga, Vampire is either it's sequel (The Return of Count Yorga) which I haven't seen and can't comment on or a Hammer film with a similar "Vampire in Modern Times" plot which I covered in my original AMAD run. So, below...

In this article: Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Count Yorga, Vampire, Van Helsing, Caroline Munro, Christopher Lee, Dracula, and Roger Perry

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave Dracula Has Risen from the Grave is a 1968 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis for Hammer Films . It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, with support from Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson,...

In this article: Count Dracula, Dracula, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Dracula, and Veronica Carlson