Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters, 2024Directed by Benjamin Field. Featuring Valerie Leon, Tim Burton, John Landis, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Madeline Smith, John Gore, Jonathan Rigby, Wayne Kinsey, and Axelle Carolyn.SYNOPSIS:Showcases Hammer Films through the eyes of its actors, filmmakers and fans, tracing the history of the production house.Whether it is […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Mantrap (1953)
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 after being convicted of […]
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 Bram Stoker’s novel The […]
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 top-secret government facility in […]
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 good as they do […]
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 brilliant plastic surgeon and […]
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 Bram […]
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 amongst us.You have […]
NECA launches new Hammer Horror action figure series with Christopher Lee’s Dracula
NECA is launching a new Hammer Horror series of 7-inch action figures this year, kicking things off with a Count Dracula inspired by the likeness of Christopher Lee as the iconic blood sucker in the 1958 classic Dracula (a.k.a. Horror of Dracula). The figure is available to pre-order now, priced at $34.99; take a look […]
