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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] A Scotland Yard inspector learns how four tenants of a country house met macabre fates in this horror anthology. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 10, 2024 - 3 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] 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

[Trailer] When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain. -- IMDb. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on May 26, 2024 - 6 comments

Injured in an Eagle crash, Koenig lies in medlab, unresponsive to Dr Russell's efforts to revive him. At the same time he finds himself on an alien world, subjected to illusions created by alien scientist Raan (Peter Cushing) as part of an anthropological experiment upon him - an experiment that treats him as a 'missing link' to the early history of Raan's race. [more inside]
posted by Major Clanger on Oct 23, 2016 - 5 comments

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 14, 2015 - 6 comments