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7 unusual facts about Hammer Film Productions


An Electric Storm

A brief extract from the track "The Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell" can be heard in the Hammer Film Productions film Dracula AD 1972.

Claud Eustace Teal

In 1953 British Hammer Film Productions made The Saint's Return, which wasn't based on any of Charteris' stories.

Cruelty and the Beast

The album features guest narration on certain passages by Ingrid Pitt in-character as Báthory, a role she first played in the Hammer film Countess Dracula in 1971.

Isobel Black

She is perhaps best known for her parts in films such as The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), Twins of Evil (1971), both horror films made by Hammer, and 10 Rillington Place (also 1971).

Ivor Slaney

He also wrote the music for several Hammer Films, including Thirty Six Hours of Terror (1953), The Gambler and the Lady (1953), Spaceways (1953), and The House Across the Lake (1954).

Svengoolie

By December 2006, the show featured four of the Abbott and Costello "Meet" series, with the Universal Studio Monsters, and several Hammer Film Productions, which were distributed by Universal-International.

The Scarlet Blade

The Scarlet Blade (US: The Crimson Blade) is a 1963 British adventure film directed by John Gilling for Hammer Film Productions.


Alister Williamson

In films he often appeared in the horror genre, either as policemen or landlords for companies such as Hammer Studios, Amicus and AIP throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.

David Pirie

In it he analyzes the films of Hammer and Amicus, as well as other British horror phenomena, including the works of Michael Reeves as well as what Pirie referred to as Anglo-Amalgamated's "Sadean Trilogy", beginning with Horrors of the Black Museum in 1959.

Doctor Madblood

The Doctor also returned to Tidewater television screens with a prime-time Halloween special on WAVY-TV in 1984, Doctor Madblood's Halloween Howl, which wrapped around the 1960 Hammer Studios film The Brides of Dracula.

Eliot Hyman

In 1957, he helped found Seven Arts Productions and played an important role in the financing of the first horror film from Hammer Film Productions, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).

Go motion

This process was also employed by Jim Danforth to blur the pterodactyl's wings in Hammer Films' "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth", and by Randal William Cook on the terror dogs sequence in "Ghostbusters".

Horrors of the Black Museum

It was the first film in what film critic David Pirie dubbed Anglo-Amalgamated's "Sadian trilogy" (the other two being Circus of Horrors and Peeping Tom), with an emphasis on sadism, cruelty and violence (with sexual undertones), in contrast to the supernatural horror of the Hammer films of the same era.

Hunton Park

In the 1970s, the cinema industry became interested in the house as a location, and a number of the Hammer House of Horror Productions were filmed there as well as The Executioner directed by Sam Wanamaker, and The Raging Moon (1971) by director Bryan Forbes.

In a Glass Darkly

It also served as the basis for several films including Hammer's The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1932).

Ralph Bates

Ralph Bates (12 February 1940 – 27 March 1991) was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John and for being one of Hammer Horror's best-known actors from the latter period of the company.

The Horror of Frankenstein

The Horror of Frankenstein is a 1970 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions that is both a semi-parody and remake of the 1957 film The Curse of Frankenstein.

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

It was based on the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon which had been previously filmed in 1945, with the screenplay written by Jimmy Sangster, and was produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions.


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