Sentences with phrase «of hammer horror»

Daniel Radcliff transforms himself from Harry Potter into the hero of a Hammer horror film.

He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle of Hammer horror movies — while paying abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).

TCM continues their series of Hammer horror films on Friday with four Mummy films, then carries us through Saturday and Sunday with early Dietrich - von Sternberg collaboration The Blue Angel, the 1960 version of The Time Machine, the silent version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and caps it off with Infernal Affairs, the Hong Kong film remade in 2006 as The Departed.

No del Toro production encapsulates his romantic fascination with horror better than Crimson Peak, a picture that harkens back to the days of Hammer Horror and makes a series of nods to the likes of Mario Bava, Charlotte Brontë, and Charles Perrault.

Well, Lifeforce endures, not as a quality picture on the order of Hammer horror, but as a cheeseball classic.

This barebones, arbitrarily assembled package of Hammer Horror films is redeemed by the gorgeous aural / visual restorations.

Undoubtedly influential, it points the way to the more realistic English horror movies such as The Wicker Man in the 1970s, and an escape from the grip of the Hammer Horror stylings of the era.

Enter the world of Hammer Horror with our exlusive interview with Aidan Gillen about his latest feature «Wake Wood» (in cinemas this Friday), the first Hammer horror film to be shot in Ireland.

Not exact matches

Sam Allardyce came up with a mixture of frank «we weren't good enough» admissions and «the ref got it wrong «excuses at the end of a Hammers House of Horrors show against Southampton.

Many attributes of «The Vampire» were preceded by the classic attributes of Hammer films and Italian horror films of the 1960s.

Alex Jones and Clare Balding among the female stars of the BBC who are calling for gender pay equality We all want to go on the record to call upon you to Diane Clare, whose career stretched from Ice - Cold in Alex to the Hammer horror classic The Plague of the Zombies, has died aged 74.

It may be a little overwrought for some tastes, borderline camp at points, but if you're partial to a bit of Victorian romance with Hammer horror gloop and big, frilly night - gowns, GDT delivers an uncommon treat.

Wilson's Heart for Oculus Rift is an absolute amazing VR gaming experience that harkens in tone and style to the old style classic films of Hollywood horror and the old Hammer Horror horror and the old Hammer Horror Horror films.

... This puckish charmer about a posh Kensington mouse flushed down the loo into London sewer country is to action - adventure what Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit was to Hammer Horror.

With the role of Elizabeth in Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Hazel became a fixture of horror films, spending most of her time in the Hammer and Corman talent pools.

When you think of Hammer films you think of sexy and erotic horror.

Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman Edgar Wright's follow - up to «Shaun of the Dead» is a bigger, busier, slightly less focused ramble through small - town cop - movie clichés, but it might just be the better film, benefiting from a script packed with smart one - liners and neat riffs on everything from Hammer horror to cosy ITV dramas.

The movie is made by Hammer, one of the greatest horror film companies of all time.

In the early 1970s, cult filmmaker Jess Franco inspired by the Hammer horror films being made in the UK revisited the iconic monsters of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes of frank eroticism.

With deliberate echoes of classic Hammer horror, this moody and inventive thriller gets under our skin with its deeply personal plot, which pays as much attention to horror as emotion.

And finally a brief word about The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, a workaday Hammer horror sequel to the decent 2012 Daniel Radcliffe vehicle, Woman in Black.

If the point of reference for that earlier curiosity was»70s Italian horror, this new one riffs on the Euro erotica of the same era, including the Sapphic softcore flicks of Hammer.

More recently its horror label, Scream Factory, released remasters of the likes of Carpenter, Craven, Dante, and Cohen, as well as a wide range of Eighties exploitation fare and sundry titles from Hammer (The Vampire Lovers), New World (Barbara Peeters» rapist sea - mutant shocker Humanoids From the Deep), and AIP.

Crimson Peak is the Mexican filmmaker's latest, a 1901 - set gothic horror tale with a wicked sense of humor that pays homage to super-cool stuff like Hammer Films, Edgar Allen Poe, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Think of it as Bava's answer to a Hammer horror, with hysterical superstition and suspicion of outsiders replacing the lurid sexuality of Hammer's Victorian horrors and Bava's rich palette setting an altogether more expressionist atmosphere.

The writer / director talks with Spinoff about the true events that inspired the feature, and the daunting task of making a Hammer horror film.

Ahead of its release on New Year's Day, a new clip from Hammer's horror sequel The Woman in Black: Angel of Death has arrived online, and we have it for you below.

A new clip from Hammer's upcoming horror sequel The Woman in Black: Angel of Death has arrived online, and we have it for you right here...

It may have been filmed on the set of Jesús Franco's 1970 Hammer horror film El Conde Dracula — with the obviously enthusiastic participation of a cast led by...

This film is a great mix of creepy slow - burn almost Hammer like atmosphere with a solid horror angle mixed it.

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Crimson Peak is an homage to the classic Hammer horrors of the»50s and»60s — heck, Edith's last name is Cushing, a not - so - subtle nod to Hammer Film legend (and, later, Star Wars villain) Peter Cushing — and as such it's meant to be rather broad and arch.

The production design and costumes look absolutely gorgeous, and has a real vibe of the old Hammer Films horror movies.

While all films in the set ring with Hammer's trademark attention to colour process, offering bloody reds and fleshy fleshtones, Horror of Dracula's 1.77:1 anamorphic widescreen image (recropped from its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio) is sadly jumping with grain so dense it's at times almost misty.

Produced by Hammer Films, that glorious British concern specializing in horror films that emphasize terror over gore, it is an elegant little flick, both creepy and atmospheric, that tells its tale of hubris and good intentions gone wrong with... Read More»

The Conjuring 2 (James Wan, 2016) The enjoyable narrative evokes the Hammer House of Horror's The House that Bled to Death (Tom Clegg, 1980).

High Def Horror: Hammer Horror Meets Harryhausen Warner Archive and Trailers From Hell combine forces to sneak a peek at some exciting upcoming releases that will please fans of Hammer films and the legendary Ray Harryhausen.

During the»90s horror boom, we also began to look outside the U.S. even beyond the Giallo films of Italy and Hammer films of the U.K. J - Horror and K - Horror became internationally recognized sub-genres, producing such terrifying classics as Audition, Ringu, Cure and Whispering Corrhorror boom, we also began to look outside the U.S. even beyond the Giallo films of Italy and Hammer films of the U.K. J - Horror and K - Horror became internationally recognized sub-genres, producing such terrifying classics as Audition, Ringu, Cure and Whispering CorrHorror and K - Horror became internationally recognized sub-genres, producing such terrifying classics as Audition, Ringu, Cure and Whispering CorrHorror became internationally recognized sub-genres, producing such terrifying classics as Audition, Ringu, Cure and Whispering Corridors.

The feature directorial debut of Brett Anstey, Australian import Damned by Dawn represents a stab at homage to the classic Hammer Horror films of yore.

A loose remake of the 1941 Universal monster film The Wolf Man, this new incarnation of the classic werewolf story initially looks like an enticing blend of the original film, Hammer Horror films and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow.

Gothic horror was out of fashion, and Hammer couldn't find backers for production.

As well as horror Hammer continued to produce a wide variety of other genres, including comedy and drama.

Hammer is synonymous with horror, after defining the genre in Britain with classics such as Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy, which spawned numerous sequels.

In Terence Fishers excellent version of the Dracula tale, Lee is joined by another Hammer and horror icon, Peter Cushing.

by Jefferson Robbins I'm risking all kinds of things here, not least the prospect of becoming That Guy At FFC Who Finds Too Much Depth In Hammer Horror Movies, but this is my take: Vampire Circus is about the plight of the Jews in Christian Europe.

Sherlock co-creator, Mark Gatiss, has directed an unmade Hammer Horror script set in 1930s India — The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula.

One of the first films to fly the newly reformed Hammer banner, Wake Wood is an Irish horror film quite unlike any you've seen before.

His roles in more than 200 films include star turns as Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein's monster in Hammer horror classics, Count Dooku in Star Wars, and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit films.

In 2008, he played the lead role of Ed in the Hammer Horror production Beyond the Rave.

We're talking about Hammer Films, the organization that brought us such cheesy, guilty pleasure,»50s era creepshow treats as Horror of Dracula and Revenge of Frankenstein, only to find itself increasingly less relevant as a horror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and tortureHorror of Dracula and Revenge of Frankenstein, only to find itself increasingly less relevant as a horror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and torturehorror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and torture porn.