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[TRAILER] Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is a brilliant scientist willing to stop at nothing in his quest to reanimate a deceased body. After alienating his longtime friend and partner, Paul Krempe (Robert Urquhart), with his extreme methods, Frankenstein assembles a hideous creature (Christopher Lee) out of dead body parts and succeeds in bringing it to life. But the monster is not as obedient or docile as Frankenstein expected, and it runs amok, resulting in murder and mayhem. This was the first film in Hammer's run of Frankenstein films. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 22, 2025 - 3 comments

[TRAILER] Debonair supernatural expert Captain Kronos (Horst Janson) and his hunchbacked assistant, Grost (John Cater), meet their match when they encounter a village where vampires have been stealing the vitality of young women, leaving them elderly and decrepit. Armed with his sword and formidable deductive reasoning, Kronos begins to solve the macabre mystery, with evidence pointing to the aristocratic Lady Durward (Wanda Ventham) and her family as prime suspects. This was intended as the first in a series for Hammer Films. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 3, 2025 - 4 comments

[TRAILER] After a spate of murders, the villagers of Stetl kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appears in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to fulfil the Count's last words, a curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Stetl are the targets for a brutal revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 5, 2024 - 2 comments

[TRAILER] A child conceived by a nonverbal servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 4, 2024 - 2 comments

[TRAILER] 19th century witch hunter Gustav (Peter Cushing) leads a band of puritans through the region, burning young women suspected of witchcraft. When his identical twin nieces (Playboy Playmates Mary and Madeleine Collinson) come to visit from Venice, one of the twins takes an interest in Count Karnstein (Daniel Thomas), a local lord dabbling in Satanism... and worse. Hammer's third (and final) film in the Karnstein Trilogy, a series of lightly sexy vampire stories with lesbian themes. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 27, 2024 - 3 comments

[TRAILER] A temptress (Yutte Stensgaard) does Count Karnstein's (Mike Raven) biting at a finishing school in 19th-century Styria. The second in Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy, which uses the novel Carmilla as a launching point for three films about sexy lesbian vampires. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 27, 2024 - 2 comments

[TRAILER] The general (Peter Cushing) and a baron hunt a vampire named Carmilla (Ingrid Pitt) who seduces and bites their daughters. The first in Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy, based on/inspired by Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 27, 2024 - 2 comments