British horror movie network launches Hammer Films double-feature series.
Horror Channel, the British-based genre-centric specialty network, has just announced its intent to screen a series of classic horror films from Englands fabled Hammer Studios, packaged as kick-ass Saturday night double features.
The movies will be screened on Saturday nights from November 7th to November 28th starting at 9pm. With CRIMSON PEAK suddenly reviving audience interest in atmospheric Gothic horror films, it makes sense to revisit the House of Hammer to see how the likes of Terrence Fisher and Freddie Francis did it (and boy did they do it right )
Heres the full lineup:
Sat 7 Nov @ 9pm THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961)
The late, great Oliver Reed stars in this, his first film role, as Leon, a poor lad who because of his volatile inception, is cursed with lycanthropy. Terrence Fisher directs with wit and style and the film contains some rather alarming moments of bloodshed.
Sat 7 Nov @ 10.50pm THE GORGON (1964)
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing appear together again in this stunning, often overlooked classic about the spirit of Medusas even more evil sister skulking about a turn of the century German village and turning people into stone.
Sat 14 Nov @ 9pm THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1958)
The second and best Hammer FRANKENSTEIN film stars Peter Cushing, hiding out as a doctor named Stein in a small village. Soon, hes up to his old tricks, hacking limbs and making a man with blonde hair and a tan
Sat 14 Nov @ 10.50pm THE TWO FACES OF DOCTOR JEKYLL (1960)
Paul Massie and Christopher Lee star in this riff on Stevensons THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, original released as HOUSE OF FRIGHT and once more featuring taut direction by the Terence Fisher.
Sat 21 Nov @ 9pm THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN (1964)
Often considered the worst of the FRANKENSTEIN films, EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN is actually a lively, colorful dose of high-class exploitation. Frankenstein revives his dead(again) monster and calls on the sinister hypnotist Zoltan to aid in restoring the creatures equilibrium. But Zoltan has other plans
Sat 21 Nov @ 10.45pm THE BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)
Lee stepped away for this Terence Fisher sequel to 1958s HORROR OF DRACULA, leaving David Peel to fill in as the rather nasty and petulant Baron Meinster who has a grand time decimating and draining a local girls school, that is until a certain Van Helsing (Peter Cushing of course) steps in to stop him. A strange, gently taboo-bending film that is in fact superior to the revered first film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bNmNniIDsk
Sat 28 Nov @ 9pm NIGHT CREATURES (1962)
Like an episode of Scooby Doo, Hammer style, NIGHT CREATURES is a mystery centering around a sinister vicar (Peter Cushing) and his attempts to scare away interlopers with the legend of Captain Clegg and the swamp phantoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkssnHy5MII
Sat 28 Nov @ 10.55pm BLOOD FROM THE MUMMYS TOMB (1971)
Director Seth Holts final film sees Hammer vet Andrew Keir as a professor who steals a precious stone from a evil mummys severed hand. When he gives the ring to his daughter, she promptly gets possessed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GinUdr1lPKI
For more information go to Horror Channel’s official site.
