Knockers everywhere although the first half is a bit technical
I used to love Friday night double horror bill on BBC 2
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Knockers everywhere although the first half is a bit technical
I used to love Friday night double horror bill on BBC 2
I remember The House That Dripped Blood. Scary as fùck. Starred a very young Nicky Wire.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
An Amicus movie, not a Hammer film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Lung
I was watching a 1970s edition of Call My Bluff on BBC4 last week and one of the guests was Madeleine Smith. It brought back very vivid memories of her and Ingrid PittQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Ingrid Pitt now you're talking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
The earlier films with Peter Cushing and often Christopher Lee as Dracula were frightening.
I remember they got a bit silly then, perhaps it was because I was getting older?
Was it Dracula AD 1972? More like a comedy.
Wasn’t Hammer, but Fenella Fielding, in Carry on Screaming, WHAT a pair :hehe:
It's interesting that Ingrid Pitt is often viewed as one of the ultimate Hammer Horror scream queens when in fact she only appeared in two Hammer films - the Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula. She was also in the Amicus movie The House That Dripped Blood and had a small role in British Lion's classic the Wicker Man, but in reality her horror career was pretty brief.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Now you’ve stirred more memories. A US west coast band called Stoneground made an appearance in the film Dracula AD 1972 who I saw at Cardiff Uinversity in the Students Union in Dumfries Place. They were a good turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
I watched Dracula AD1972 (again) recently having thought I'd picked up a bargain at CEx. It is very silly and the soundtrack absolutely laughably inappropriate for a horror film.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Kinda good fun, though. Ridiculously silly, but reasonably entertaining. I picked up a mint condition BluRay copy in a local charity shop for 50p earlier this year. I've got loads of Hammer films and have watched most of those I haven't got, but I'd never seen this nonsense before.Quote:
Originally Posted by JumpersforGoalposts
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Caroline Munro - well worth 50p in my opinion.
:hehe:
On the subject of Hammer films, is anyone else a fan of their Sixties psychological thrillers? I only discovered these a few years ago thanks to one of my favourite BluRay labels Indicator and there are some surprisingly good movies among them. Examples: Never Take Sweets From A Stranger (1960, brilliant film for its time), the Full Treatment (1960), Taste of Fear (1961), Paranoiac (1963, a young Oliver Reed at his manic best), Maniac (1963), Nightmare (1964) and Fanatic (1965, featuring a very young Donald Sutherland).
I haven't come across those. Thanks for that, I'll give them a try. I love psychological thrillers. I'm straying off Hammer Horror here but for me one of the very best psychological thrillers was "The Innocents" from Henry James's "Turn of the Screw". Wonderfully scary and gothic. I'm still not sure if the governess was just going mad or whether she was confronted with pure evil.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Hazel Court similarly was always busting out of her corsets. Ingrid Pitt was my favourite.Quote:
Originally Posted by BLUETIT
The Innocents is a marvellous film. Speaking of which, I recently watched a truly bizarre 1971 prequel to the Innocents called the Nightcomers. It was directed by Michael Winner and stars Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham and Thora Hird. Far from a great film, very odd indeed. Brando's attempt at an Irish accent if laughable, but I only paid £4 for the BluRay and Stephanie Beacham parades around naked in it, so it had its plus points.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorcus
The Hammer films are a mixed bag but all sorts of interesting people turn up in them either at the beginning or the end of their careers and they're generally good fun. Never Take Sweets From A Stranger is a bit different in that deals with subject matter that was very rarely touched upon when it was filmed. I thought it was excellent considering it was shot in 1959.
Ingrid Pitt was stunning , amazing in Where Eagles Dare
Those early seventies horror films were great
Count Yorga was brilliant too
Is that the one that starts with old drac on a spike from a horse carriage ?Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I agree although the soundtrack had stopped being amusing about half way through and was just plain irritating well before the end!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Another old cracker in my opinion was "The Haunting", early 60s. No need for any gory violence in these type of films to give you the shivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
I saw Freddie Jones once at Southsea on a bench by the Square Tower near the Hot Walls.
Always wished I'd complimented him on that scene when after his work on the monster, he deftly sliced the top off two boiled eggs
NOW you're talking!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorcus
Really scary, much better than the colour remake, despite Cath Z-J
Yes played on your own fearsQuote:
Originally Posted by bobh
I thought that was quite gory for it's timeQuote:
Originally Posted by JumpersforGoalposts
The Legend Of Hell House
Amicus production again I think
Very Creepy
Dr Terrors House of Horrors
Theatre Of Blood
That was creepy too
For those (like me) who missed this it is getting another airing on Sky arts tonight (Sunday) at 10:30.
Two glimpses of ingrid pitt in 3 daysQuote:
Originally Posted by JumpersforGoalposts
Lovely