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‘The Horror of Dracula’ – Christopher Lee is the Count on Max

!Featured, British Cinema, Classic Movie, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, literary adaptation, Max, remake, SVOD 10/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

The Gothic horror from Hammer Films presents Christopher Lee as an elegant, confident, altogether seductive Dracula and Peter Cushing an intense, driven Van Helsing in the 1958 remake of the vampire classic.

‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ – Hammer horror on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, literary adaptation, Max, remake, SVOD 10/06/2020 Sean Axmaker

Britain’s Hammer Studios had been making films for decades before they suddenly redefined themselves with this lurid remake of the Universal Studios horror classic. Prohibited by Universal from copying their blocky make-up (and their script for that matter), Hammer returned to Mary Shelley’s novel for inspiration for The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)… and then went […]

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in the 1959 Hammer horror classic directed by Terence Fisher

Christopher Lee is ‘The Mummy’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, remake, SVOD 10/30/2018 Sean Axmaker

Hammer Films’ greatest nemeses, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, once again square off in The Mummy (1959), the studio’s reworking of Universal’s The Mummy (with elements of The Mummy’s Tomb and The Mummy’s Ghost thrown in for good measure). Cushing stars as archaeologist John Banning, whose dig for a lost tomb results in untold treasures […]