Tag: Hammer Horror
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There’s something about the red velvet and candlelight of Hammer’s Dracula that feels almost sinful. Not just because it redefined horror, but because it seduced it. Before 1958, cinematic vampires were ghostly aristocrats, whispering through cobwebbed castles in black-and-white shadows. But Hammer Films — in their usual, gloriously excessive way — didn’t just want to…
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The return of the legendary Hammer studio brought an ear-to-ear grin to my face with the announcement of Doctor Jekyll in 2020. Hammer is responsible for a plethora of monster films, including some based on the Universal creations, usually with an unequivocal look of Technicolor and a propensity for a deeper macabre than the monster…