Mantrap, 1953. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Kieron Moore, Hugh Sinclair, Lloyd Lamble, Kay Kendall, Bill Travers, and Barbara Shelley. SYNOPSIS: A wrongly convicted murderer and a private detective team up to discover who really committed the crime the convict was imprisoned for. Mervyn Speight (Kieron Moore) has escaped from prison […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb, 1971. Directed by Seth Holt. Starring Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers, Mark Edwards, Aubrey Morris, James Cossins, Hugh Burden, Rosalie Crutchley. SYNOPSIS: After the coffin of an Egyptian queen is brought back to London, a young woman starts to learn the truth about who she is. Loosely based on […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Spaceways (1953)
Spaceways, 1953. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver, Andrew Osborn, Anthony Ireland, Michael Medwin, Cecile Chevreau. SYNOPSIS: Whilst testing a rocket set to orbit the Earth, a cheating couple go missing and the woman’s husband becomes a suspect in their disappearance, but where are the bodies? At a […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Fear in the Night (1972)
Fear in the Night, 1972. Directed by Jimmy Sangster. Starring Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing, Gillian Lind, James Cossins. SYNOPSIS: After moving to a private boy’s school with her teacher husband a young woman is attacked by a one-armed assailant, but nobody believes her. Fans of Hammer have never had it as […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Stolen Face (1952)
Stolen Face, 1952. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell, Mary Mackenzie, and John Wood. SYNOPSIS: A brilliant plastic surgeon recreates the face of his lost love on a disfigured criminal patient, whom he marries, only for his original love to turn back up. Dr. Philip Ritter (Paul Henreid) is a […]
Hammer’s Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb and Demons of the Mind coming to 4K Ultra HD
StudioCanal has announced that it is bringing two more classics from the Hammer Films library to 4K Ultra HD for the very first time in April with new 4K Dolby Vision restorations of 1971’s Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb and 1972’s Demons of the Mind. Check out the official artwork and special feature details for […]
Hammer’s Scars of Dracula and The Horror of Frankenstein coming to 4K Ultra HD
StudioCanal is set to serve up a spine-tingling double-bill of Hammer Horror on 4K Ultra HD this November with the release of newly-restored Collector’s Edition versions of Scars of Dracula and The Horror of Frankenstein. Check out the official promotional images and details below… Christopher Lee returned to his most famous role – inspired by […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Man in Black (1949)
The Man in Black, 1949. Directed by Francis Searle. Starring Betty Ann Davies, Sidney James, Sheila Burrell, Anthony Forwood, Hazel Penwarding, and Valentine Dyall. SYNOPSIS: A woman and her daughter conspire to steal her stepdaughter’s inheritance after the mysterious death of her husband. Henry Clavering (Sidney James) is a rich man with a keen interest […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Quatermass 2 (1957)
Quatermass 2, 1957. Directed by Val Guest. Starring Brian Donlevy, John Longdon, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day, Michael Ripper, John Van Eyssen, Charles Lloyd Pack. SYNOPSIS: Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, discovers that the British government are streets ahead of him and that the alien threat is already […]
Movie Review – Doctor Jekyll (2023)
Doctor Jekyll, 2023. Directed by Joe Stephenson. Starring Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Robyn Cara, and Simon Callow. SYNOPSIS: A modern re-imagining of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale. What better way to re-launch the legendary Hammer Films name than by taking a classic tale of terror and bringing it bang up-to-date? There isn’t, […]
