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Post by stonmg on May 25, 2015 14:41:25 GMT
Whats the film when a character recieves a piece of paper and something kills them, but they hear something coming towards them along a railway track or something like that, before they die? That's the one I'm on about; Night Of The Demon, sometimes known as Curse Of The Demon. Love it! The papers contain Ancient Runes that are used to conjur a demon to kill them. You have to pass the paper with the runes on, on to your enemy, without them knowing. So many great atmospheric scenes in that movie, the footprints in the woods, the storm at the children's party, I even like the demon fx at the end of the movie.
It's based on an old MR James story, Casting The Runes. ITV did a version of it back in the 70s with Ian Cuthbertson. It's ok if a little hampered by a modest budget. Not anywhere near as good as Night Of The Demon mind.
Cheers Mate, Downloaded it now.
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Post by thevoid on May 25, 2015 15:16:38 GMT
Not strictly Hammer films, but Christopher Lee and/or Peter Cushing feature in these classics from the same era:
The Creeping Flesh
Plus:
The Fiend was a good British exploitation flick from the 70s, no Hammer actors in it though.
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Post by trentvale68 on May 25, 2015 16:30:08 GMT
Can't argue with them; Island Of Terror & Horror Express are both really good, must look out for The Fiend, not seen that one. The Creeping Flesh is good too, that used to be on Youtube as well.
Most of the Hammerish films that weren't actually Hammer were made by 2 rival studios; Amicus & Tigon.
Some others I'd recommend from this stable are The Skull (Peter Cushing), The Ghoul(Peter Cushing), Lost Continent (Eric Porter), Doomwatch (Eric Bannen), Tower Of Evil (very gory for the time). Also people forget One Million Years BC with all the great Ray Harryhausen dinosaurs is a Hammer film. Hammer also did things like On The Buses (the movies) and even tried Scifi like Moon Zero Two.
Amicus went on to make those lost world movies with Doug Mclure like Warlords Of Atlantis.
I was always a big fan of the anthology movies they did back in the 70s. Amicus in particular specialised in them. There'd be 4 or 5 different horror stories that would all be linked in some way to usually a twist ending (more often than not the principal characters from each story would turn out to be dead and bound for hell) Some stories would be tongue in cheek and occasionally one would be really disturbing too!
The ones I remember well are Asylum, From Beyond The Grave, Vault Of Horror, Torture Garden, Tales That Witness Madness, Dr Terrors House Of Horrors, The House That Dripped Blood, Tales From The Crypt, The Uncanny. All of these are great for a rainy afternoon and probably most are on Youtube.
Great thread, it's brought a lot of memories back for me and I'm revisiting these again myself. I'm just saddened that Peter Cushing perhaps didn't get the credit he deserved in the mainstream as he was one of Britain's greatest actors.
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Post by trentvale68 on May 25, 2015 16:32:44 GMT
That's the one I'm on about; Night Of The Demon, sometimes known as Curse Of The Demon. Love it! The papers contain Ancient Runes that are used to conjur a demon to kill them. You have to pass the paper with the runes on, on to your enemy, without them knowing. So many great atmospheric scenes in that movie, the footprints in the woods, the storm at the children's party, I even like the demon fx at the end of the movie.
It's based on an old MR James story, Casting The Runes. ITV did a version of it back in the 70s with Ian Cuthbertson. It's ok if a little hampered by a modest budget. Not anywhere near as good as Night Of The Demon mind.
Cheers Mate, Downloaded it now. Let me know what you make of it. If you do like it, there's a slightly similiar movie called Night Of The Eagle that you may enjoy!
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Post by trentvale68 on May 25, 2015 16:39:03 GMT
Another one i'd recommend, particularly if you liked Witchfinder General and/or The Wicker Man is the underrated Blood On Satans Claw.
Its not a horror movie but Richard Harris' Cromwell movie sits nicely alongside Witchfinder General too, set in same times.
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Post by Squeekster on May 25, 2015 19:14:25 GMT
Always remember one called the hand, this copper hand cuffed this bloke to the bumper of his police car and in true corny film senario forgets and when he realises, all thats left is the hand cuffs on the bumper then this hand reeks revenge.
Think it was a hammer house film.
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Post by harryburrows on May 25, 2015 19:43:48 GMT
Interestingly the hotel next to bray studios featured in quite a few films as it is very gothic looking and very handy , called Oakley court , can't do the linky thing though
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Post by trentvale68 on May 25, 2015 20:04:07 GMT
Always remember one called the hand, this copper hand cuffed this bloke to the bumper of his police car and in true corny film senario forgets and when he realises, all thats left is the hand cuffs on the bumper then this hand reeks revenge. Think it was a hammer house film. can't place that one?? There was an old Oliver Stone film called The Hand with Michael Caine where he lost his hand in an accident (pretty good fx) and the hand then took on its own life. Its not Hammer though. There was an old Amicus movie, And Now the Screaming Starts with a crawling severed hand, mind.
Tried googling it, any ideas anyone?
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Post by trentvale68 on May 25, 2015 20:07:00 GMT
Interestingly the hotel next to bray studios featured in quite a few films as it is very gothic looking and very handy , called Oakley court , can't do the linky thing though Do you remember the titles for the Hammer House Of Horror TV series?? The house, the music, the figures in the windowsill; all VERY creepy!
They did a follow up, Hammer House Of Mystery & Suspense, didn't quite match up somehow.
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 26, 2015 11:27:58 GMT
I used to enjoy the later portmanteau films with 3 or 4 stories usually linked together by the mysterious old guy the characters met on a train or whatever. There was one with Patrick Magee as the brutal governor of a home for the blind who comes to a very sticky end being chased by vicious dogs down a narrow maze lined with razor blades. He does ok at first, with just the odd nick - then the lights go out....
Saw... pffft..
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Post by trentvale68 on May 26, 2015 14:47:26 GMT
I used to enjoy the later portmanteau films with 3 or 4 stories usually linked together by the mysterious old guy the characters met on a train or whatever. There was one with Patrick Magee as the brutal governor of a home for the blind who comes to a very sticky end being chased by vicious dogs down a narrow maze lined with razor blades. He does ok at first, with just the odd nick - then the lights go out.... Saw... pffft.. Tales From The Crypt, my friend! I didn't remember, I confess, I looked it up on Wikipedia and found this below:
Blind Alleys (Tales from the Crypt No. 46, February–March 1955)
Major William Rogers (Nigel Patrick), the new director of a home for the blind (making up mostly of elderly and middle-aged men), makes drastic financial cuts, reducing heat and rationing food for the residents, while he lives in luxury with his dog Shane, a German Shepherd. When he ignores complaints and a man dies due to the cold, the blind residents, led by the stone-faced George Carter (Patrick Magee) exact an equally cruel revenge.
After Carter and his group subdue the staff, they lure and trap Major Rogers as well as his dog in two separate rooms in the basement. The blind men then begin constructing in the basement a maze of narrow corridors, some of them lined with razor blades. They starve the Major's dog, then place the Major in the maze's center, and turn off the lights. As the major attempts to escape, cutting himself and bleeding, the inmates release the starving dog...
After completing the final tale, the Crypt Keeper reveals that he was not warning them of what would happen, but telling them what had happened; they have all "died without repentance". Clues to this twist can be spotted throughout the film, including Joan Collins' character wearing the brooch her husband had given her for Christmas just before she killed him. The door to Hell opens, and the visitors all enter. "And now… who is next?" asks the Crypt Keeper, turning to face the camera. "Perhaps you?" (The earlier Amicus anthology Torture Garden featured a similar ending, breaking the fourth wall.
This is a useful link, it's a decent Youtube to MP4 converter, if you want to save anything off Youtube to your laptop or USB. Very often, the films infringe copyright and get taken down so it's worth nabbing anything half decent. Can also do MP3. It's pretty easy to use and I've not had any virus issues in the 2 or 3 years Ive used it so far.
www.clipconverter.cc/
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 26, 2015 15:05:43 GMT
I used to enjoy the later portmanteau films with 3 or 4 stories usually linked together by the mysterious old guy the characters met on a train or whatever. There was one with Patrick Magee as the brutal governor of a home for the blind who comes to a very sticky end being chased by vicious dogs down a narrow maze lined with razor blades. He does ok at first, with just the odd nick - then the lights go out.... Saw... pffft.. Tales From The Crypt, my friend! I didn't remember, I confess, I looked it up on Wikipedia and found this below:
Blind Alleys (Tales from the Crypt No. 46, February–March 1955)
Major William Rogers (Nigel Patrick), the new director of a home for the blind (making up mostly of elderly and middle-aged men), makes drastic financial cuts, reducing heat and rationing food for the residents, while he lives in luxury with his dog Shane, a German Shepherd. When he ignores complaints and a man dies due to the cold, the blind residents, led by the stone-faced George Carter (Patrick Magee) exact an equally cruel revenge.
After Carter and his group subdue the staff, they lure and trap Major Rogers as well as his dog in two separate rooms in the basement. The blind men then begin constructing in the basement a maze of narrow corridors, some of them lined with razor blades. They starve the Major's dog, then place the Major in the maze's center, and turn off the lights. As the major attempts to escape, cutting himself and bleeding, the inmates release the starving dog...
After completing the final tale, the Crypt Keeper reveals that he was not warning them of what would happen, but telling them what had happened; they have all "died without repentance". Clues to this twist can be spotted throughout the film, including Joan Collins' character wearing the brooch her husband had given her for Christmas just before she killed him. The door to Hell opens, and the visitors all enter. "And now… who is next?" asks the Crypt Keeper, turning to face the camera. "Perhaps you?" (The earlier Amicus anthology Torture Garden featured a similar ending, breaking the fourth wall.
This is a useful link, it's a decent Youtube to MP4 converter, if you want to save anything off Youtube to your laptop or USB. Very often, the films infringe copyright and get taken down so it's worth nabbing anything half decent. Can also do MP3. It's pretty easy to use and I've not had any virus issues in the 2 or 3 years Ive used it so far.
www.clipconverter.cc/ [/ p] Thanks for that. Excellent! I'll check that convertor out. I'd remembered the protagonists in the film backwards. Magee led the blind residents. A very underrated actor. The final scene is chilling, as the lights go off and the screaming starts. Fade to black... I used to loook forward to seeing these Hammer/Amicus/Tigon etc. productions on TV late on a Fri/Sat night. (exciting times, the '70s!) Used to scare the crap out of me as a 12/13 year old. Always plenty of underdressed ladies on view as well! Great stuff.
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 26, 2015 15:31:37 GMT
Fantastic films......One under-rated film was 'The plague of the Zombies'..brilliant but you don't hear much about it. Another film, though it wasn't a hammer production was 'The Witchfinder General.. That film freaks me out even now. Dark and disturbing "The Plague of the Zombies" aired recently on the Horror Channel (FV70). Unfortunately for me it was far better in memory than it turned out on the screen. I found it a disappointing experience all round and some of the acting might as well have been sponsored by the Forestry commission. It was though, a nice clean and sharp cut of the film; as have been all the old Hammers etc. I've seen on there. I don't know whether they clean them up digitally or not but they are usually impressive in that regard.
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Post by Skankmonkey on May 27, 2015 22:41:50 GMT
Tales From The Crypt, my friend! I didn't remember, I confess, I looked it up on Wikipedia and found this below:
Blind Alleys (Tales from the Crypt No. 46, February–March 1955)
Major William Rogers (Nigel Patrick), the new director of a home for the blind (making up mostly of elderly and middle-aged men), makes drastic financial cuts, reducing heat and rationing food for the residents, while he lives in luxury with his dog Shane, a German Shepherd. When he ignores complaints and a man dies due to the cold, the blind residents, led by the stone-faced George Carter (Patrick Magee) exact an equally cruel revenge.
After Carter and his group subdue the staff, they lure and trap Major Rogers as well as his dog in two separate rooms in the basement. The blind men then begin constructing in the basement a maze of narrow corridors, some of them lined with razor blades. They starve the Major's dog, then place the Major in the maze's center, and turn off the lights. As the major attempts to escape, cutting himself and bleeding, the inmates release the starving dog...
After completing the final tale, the Crypt Keeper reveals that he was not warning them of what would happen, but telling them what had happened; they have all "died without repentance". Clues to this twist can be spotted throughout the film, including Joan Collins' character wearing the brooch her husband had given her for Christmas just before she killed him. The door to Hell opens, and the visitors all enter. "And now… who is next?" asks the Crypt Keeper, turning to face the camera. "Perhaps you?" (The earlier Amicus anthology Torture Garden featured a similar ending, breaking the fourth wall.
This is a useful link, it's a decent Youtube to MP4 converter, if you want to save anything off Youtube to your laptop or USB. Very often, the films infringe copyright and get taken down so it's worth nabbing anything half decent. Can also do MP3. It's pretty easy to use and I've not had any virus issues in the 2 or 3 years Ive used it so far.
www.clipconverter.cc/
Strangely enough, "Tales from the Crypt" is on the Horror Channel(FV70) Thursday night at 21.00. Serendipity eh..
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Post by marwood on May 28, 2015 21:22:12 GMT
The lovely Madeleine Penny mallet Adrianne posta Ingrid pit Valerie Leon Stephanie Beecham Yes Valerie Leon, 60s/70s background totty par excellence Val was superb in every thing she appeared in, first saw her in carry on films and the Italian job as a kid, even then you could tell she was a different class
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Post by dutchpeter72 on May 28, 2015 21:26:06 GMT
Yes Valerie Leon, 60s/70s background totty par excellence Val was superb in every thing she appeared in, first saw her in carry on films and the Italian job as a kid, even then you could tell she was a different class Blimey, thanks for the pics. I feel like Professor Peach now
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Post by dutchpeter72 on May 29, 2015 7:23:48 GMT
Does anyone here think Sir Stans statue in Hanley looks like Peter Cushing? Probably just me...
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Post by trentvale68 on Jun 11, 2015 15:45:55 GMT
Definiteley going to watch a Christopher Lee movie this weekend as tribute to the great man.. Probably his first as Dracula, the 1958 movie.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 15:58:36 GMT
I thought he was pretty impressive for a very senior actor in Lord of the Rings to be fair. Still managed to pull off a convincing fight scene as well. Out of character he seemed like a real good laugh to be around.
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Post by redstriper on Jun 11, 2015 19:56:20 GMT
Jenny Hanley, in that see through nightgown in scars of dracula, .... possibly my earlist stirring in the groin area... and then she went into kids TV (magpie) genius!...I doubt that would happen today...
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Post by trentvale68 on Jun 14, 2015 17:15:03 GMT
Pretty good 1994 documentary I found on Youtube called Flesh & Blood The Hammer Heritage Of Horror
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Post by trentvale68 on Jul 19, 2016 17:37:34 GMT
Caught this at weekend, not sure if its specifically Hammer but it has that feel to it
Pretty hokey stuf, dated but fun
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