#hammer productions

[screamscenepodcast]

Your hosts encounter a film often overlooked... it's THE CITY OF THE DEAD (1960) aka HORROR HOTEL directed by John Llewellyn Moxey!

Designed to compete with Hammer Horror, this proto-Amicus Productions film stars Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Venetia Stevenson and Betta St. John.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 17:02; Discussion 30:42; Ranking 55:04

#podcast #horror #classic horror #uk horror #horror hotel #the city of the dead #john llewellyn moxey #christopher lee #betta st john #patricia jessel #amicus productions #hammer productions #george baxt #milton subotsky #seymour dorner #max rosenberg #donald taylor #desmond dickinson #john pomeroy #douglas gamley #ken jones #satanism #pagan #folk horror #dennis lotis #venetia stevenson #valentine dyall #ann beach #james dyrenforth #SoundCloud

[piedalchemist]

#phantom of the opera #phantom of the opera memes #phantom of the opera meme #phantom of the opera 1962 #poto #poto meme #poto memes #poto 1962 #professor petrie #professor l. petrie #hammer horror #hammer productions #gothic #gothic horror #my post #phantom of the opera 1962 memes #phantom of the opera 1962 meme

[adscinema]

The Devil Rides Out - Terence Fisher (1968)

Poster.

#The Devil Rides Out #terence fisher #1968 #1960s #christopher lee #charles gray #leon greene #nike arrighi #hammer productions #20th century fox #dennis wheatley #horror #seven arts #england

[criston-cole]

Emma D’Arcy & Milly Alcock at the 2023 Golden Globes

#hotdedit #emma d'arcy #milly alcock #myedit #they did not expect to win #they're so cute #milly skjfhskjh shes hammered #zero other cast members or production team members being there hjksdhfks #golden globes 2023 #long post

[gurumog]

One Million Years B.C. (1966) Hammer Film Productions Dir. Don Chaffey

Stop-motion beasts by Ray Harryhausen

#one million years b.c. #hammer film productions #practical special effects #ray harryhausen #1960s fantasy movies

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE ART OF SUPER-SEVENTIES BRITISH HORROR -- THE LADIES OF HAMMER STUDIOS.

PIC(S) INFO: "Little Shoppe of Horrors" presents...Spotlight on back cover art to "Little Shoppe of Horrors" magazine #24, "The Journal of Classic British Horror Films." (published May 2010). Artwork by Bruce Timm.

EXTRA INFO: Back cover art of English actress Valerie Leon as Margaret Fuchs/Queen Tera, from the British horror film "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" (1971), directed by Seth Holt and loosely based on Bram Stoker's 1903 novel "The Jewel of Seven Stars."

Sources: www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com/LSoH24.htm, Pinterest, & the Black Box Club (blog).

#Blood From The Mummy's Tomb #1971 #Blood from the Mummy's Tomb 1971 #Ancient Egyptian #Costume Design #Bruce Timm Art #Super Seventies #British horror #Valerie Leon 1971 #Margaret Fuchs/Queen Tera #Queen Tera #Bruce Timm #Classic British Horror #Vintage Horror #Timmverse #70s horror #Valerie Leon #Horror Movies #Horror #Classic British Horror Movies #1970s #English Actress #Hammer Horror #70s #Hammer Film Productions #British Films

[emgoesmed]

9/17/2023

Soaking up the transition between summer to fall.

Putting the finishing touches on my application for residency programs. Starting my next rotation in pediatric infectious diseases tomorrow.

#emgoesmed #studyblr #studyspo #med student #med school #med studyblr #ms4 #eras #productivity #weekend #books #literature #I learned a lot on my PICU rotation #finally understand the basics of mechanical ventilators #I hope ID is good #gonna hammer all the cephalosporins into my brain once and for all

[luckypluckychair]

Call Me by Your Name | 2017 | Brazil - France - Italy - USA

Director: Luca Guadagnino

Production designer: Samuel Deshors / Set decorator: Muriel Chinal and Sandro Piccarozzi

#call me by your name #timothee chamalet #armie hammer #luca guadagnino #production design #set design #interior design #interior and films #architecture #films #film frames #cinema #cinematography #2010s movies #2010s

[vintage1981]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROLINE MUNRO! 

Caroline Munro (born 16 January 1949 in Windsor, Berkshire) is a British actress and model best known for her many appearances in science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s. According to Munro, her career took off in 1966 when her mother and photographer friend entered some headshots of her to Britain’s The Evening News “Face of the Year” contest.

“I wanted to do art. Art was my love. I went to Art School in Brighton but I was not very good at it. I just did not know what to do. I had a friend at the college who was studying photography and he needed somebody to photograph and he asked me. Unbeknownst to me, he sent the photographs to a big newspaper in London. The famous fashion photographer, David Bailey, was conducting a photo contest and my picture won.” 

This led to modelling chores, her first job being for Vogue Magazine at the age of 17. She moved to London to pursue top modelling jobs and became a major cover girl for fashion and TV ads while there. Decorative bit parts came her way in such films as Casino Royale and Where’s Jack? (1969). One of her many photo ads got her a screen test and a one-year contract at Paramount where she won the role of Richard Widmark’s daughter in the comedy/western A Talent for Loving (1969). 

1969 proved to be a good year for Munro, because it was then that she began a lucrative 10 year relationship with Lamb’s Navy Rum. Her image was plastered all over the country, and this would eventually lead to her next big break.

Hammer Films CEO Sir James Carreras spotted Munro on a Lamb’s Navy Rum poster/billboard. He asked his right hand man, James Liggett, to find and screen test her. She was immediately signed to a one-year contract. Her first film for Hammer proved to be something of a turning point in her career. It was during the making of Dracula AD 1972 that she decided from this film onward she was a full-fledged actress. Up until then she was always considered a model who did some acting on the side.

A string of fantasy and horror roles followed, including starring turns in Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1973), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), At the Earth’s Core (1976),  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), StarCrash (1978), Maniac (1980), The Last Horror Film (1982), Faceless (1988), and The Black Cat (1989).

By the 1990s Munro had decided to focus more on her family, daughters, Georgina and Iona, and husband George Dugdale. However, since 2003 Caroline has renewed her interest in acting and has appeared in a number of film and audio productions. Since 2021 Caroline has been presenting the hit television series The Cellar Club for Talking Pictures TV.

The title First Lady of Fantasy was given to Caroline by journalist Steve Swires, who wrote many Starlog and Fangoria (@FANGORIA) articles on the actress in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Happy Birthday Caroline!

Official Website:  http://www.CarolineMunro.org

Representation: Thomas Bowington/Bowington Management

Some of her credits include: Dracula AD 1972 (1972), Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1973), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), At the Earth’s Core (1976), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), StarCrash (1978), Maniac (1980), The Last Horror Film (1982), Faceless (1988), The Black Cat (1989), Flesh for the Beast (2003), Turpin (2009), Midsomer Murders (2013), The Landlady (2013), Crying Wolf (2015), Vampyres (2015), Cute Little Buggers (2016), Frankula (2017), End User (2018), House of the Gorgon (2019), The Haunting of Margam Castle (2020), Ulalume - A Ballad (2023), The Pocket Film of Superstitions (2023), and the upcoming The Presence of Snowgood (2024).

#Caroline Munro #Hammer Films #Amicus Productions #James Bond #Bond Girls #The Spy Who Loved Me #StarCrash #Jess Franco #Paul Naschy #Captain Kronos #Dracula AD 1972 #The Last Horror Film #Slaughter High #Vampyres #Maniac #At The Earth's Core #Peter Cushing #British Actress #British Horror #BOTD #Doctor Who #The Golden Voyage of Sinbad #Ray Harryhausen

[screamscenepodcast]

Hammer Horror tries to strike Gothic gold again with THE BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960, Fisher)!

With three different writers, the film's seams show despite the heavy lifting from stars Peter Cushing, Yvonne Monlaur and David Peel.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 23:59; Discussion 33:47; Ranking 57:12

#podcast #the brides of dracula #dracula #horror #horror of dracula #hammer horror #hammer productions #terence fisher #jimmy sangster #peter bryan #edward percy #anthony hinds #peter cushing #martita hunt #freda jackson #david peel #yvonne monlaur #jack asher #alfred cox #malcolm williamson #andree melly #fred johnson #vampire #classic horror #SoundCloud

[doubtfultaste]

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

#The Plague of the Zombies #Plague of the Zombies #Hammer Horror #Hammer Film Productions #1966 #John Gilling #horror #exploitation #zombies #60's #gif #uk

[jam-jackson]

can someone from the Hammer Horror tag get in touch with me? let's get something going, I need to talk Lore, and characters, and start a heated debate on who wears that slutty white shirt the best.

#hammer horror #the curse of frankenstein #peter cushing #christopher lee #oliver reed #hammer horror productions #terence fisher you did the lords work placing it it prime Romantic Era costuming #make all the guys part of those fluffy romance covers

[gurumog]

One Million Years B.C. (1966) Hammer Film Productions Dir. Don Chaffey

Stop-motion beasts by Ray Harryhausen

#ray harryhausen #hammer film productions #one million years b.c. #1960s fantasy movies #practical special effects

[retropopcult]

Harm & Hammer baking soda Wacky Packages, 3rd Series 1973

#Wacky Packages #product parody #Arm & Hammer #1970s #wacky packs #Topps #sticker #wacky package #Norm Saunders #art #Jay Lynch #gag writer #wacky pack #70s

[mariocki]

A young Christopher Lee guest stars as dastardly Larry Spence - a rising star in the world of journalism, turned blackmailer and then murderer - in The Vise: The Final Column (1.16, ABC, 1955); the episode wasn't seen in the UK until 1963, as part of ITV drama anthology Tension

#fave spotting #christopher lee #the vise #tension #1955 #the final column #for more information on the complicated origins of The Vise (a US production entirely made in the UK) see my prev fave spotting post for #Jacqueline Hill's appearance on the series #Lee was hardly a newcomer when he made this ep; he'd been acting professionally since being demobbed a couple of years after ww2 and #was something of a stock player in british cinemas‚ usually in minor bit parts as caddish gentlemen or authority figures and military men #one of his first really significant roles would be later in '55 as a submarine commander in The Cockleshell Heroes #he was also making semi regular appearances on tv in small guest spots‚ albeit sometimes uncredited (as in ITV's The Adventures of the #Scarlet Pimpernel also around this time). a jobbing actor‚ basically‚ and not yet the cinematic icon he would begin (that journey starting #at the end of the decade and the beginning of his association with Hammer studios and horror immortality). he's very good here tho #host and narrator Ron Randell even describes him near the start of the ep as (something like) 'young‚ handsome‚ but sinister' which #may as well have been printed on business cards for the kind of work Lee would find himself doing for the next decade or so #yes he's a real rotter‚ a strangler of ladies and a blackmailer of tycoons‚ and in true Vise fashion he gets his just desserts and the mora #status quo is maintained (this is a very moral series and takes pains to inform us via Randell exactly what kind of punishment the villains #received after the events depicted) #Lee made two more Vise episodes but as Network (rip beloved) seemingly took a random approach to which episodes to include in their #first volume of the series (and obviously as it turned out only volume) i have no idea if either of those are on the set #one can hope! and i do bc it's lovely seeing him so young but with such a meaty role

[wispvial]

the Franklin idea was that I can see him post surviving the film going on a date with someone and he has his sleeves rolled up a bit that day and they see his arm scar and look concerned

but he doesn’t want them to be afraid for his wellbeing or worse, pity him, so he tells them it’s old and healed up and says something like “and anyway, you shoulda seen the other guy”

THIS HAS BEEN IN MY INBOX FOR AGES it's sooo cute i love it thank you<3

i could see franklin genuinely starting to believe in astrology after that day and having it basically control his daily life in fear of something Bad happening again. and maybe his date could tell him that pam or whoever was blaming the stars for the very human reasons that people are able to hurt him because it's easy if everything is out of their hands. and he'd be like. Huh. I mean yeah I been thinkin' that too. *picks nails*

#ask #franklin hardesty #and then they go to franklin's stereotypical yellow-tinged 70s bedroom with a lava lamp with red liquid swirling around in it #and hammer productions horror movie posters on the wall. and then they freak it