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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.

‘Brides of Dracula’ – the Hammer Films sequel on Peacock

!Featured, Blu-ray, British Cinema, Classic Movie, DVD, Halloween, horror, Peacock, SVOD 10/11/2022 Sean Axmaker

Peter Cushing returns as Van Helsing to track a disciple of Dracula in the 1960 sequel to the hit Gothic horror from director Terence Fisher.

Peter Cushing is Sherlock Holmes in the Hammer version of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic

‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ – Hammer’s Gothic Holmes on Amazon Prime

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Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective in this 1959 mix mystery and supernatural horror from Hammer Studios and its top director, Terence Fisher.

‘Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell’ – Hammer horror on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Hulu, Science Fiction, SVOD 06/24/2021 Sean Axmaker

Though it wasn’t Hammer Studio’s final film, Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1974) can be considered its swan song, an intelligent, inventive, stylized reworking of the themes that had sustained the series for almost two decades. Dr. Frankenstein has buried his old identity and reigns over an insane asylum as Dr. Victor (Peter Cushing […]

‘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 […]