The Horror of Dracula (1958, Terence Fisher)
“I’m afraid I don’t understand.” – Harker This was excellent. I knew Hammer Horror was a major hole in my viewing history, but I’d had the wrong idea about it. Somehow assumed it was a studio of...
View ArticleLegend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974, Roy Ward Baker)
When I heard that Roy Ward Baker, who’d worked with Marilyn Monroe and Bette Davis, director of the acclaimed 1950′s Titanic movie A Night To Remember, had died, I didn’t think it would affect me....
View ArticleThe Mummy (1959, Terence Fisher)
Don’t think I’ve watched a mummy movie since I was eight, because that’s the last time a living mummy seemed scary or interesting (I’m not counting the 1990′s Mummy series, since those were more about...
View ArticleThe Devil Rides Out (1968, Terence Fisher)
Another film with a dense, confused audience-surrogate character: pilot Rex (Leon Greene, a Holmes in The Seven Percent Solution), who meets his old buddy Christopher Lee (same year as Dracula Has...
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