# Any old Hammer horror films you can recommend? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138 "2015-01-06T17:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/21 "2015-01-08T04:23:30Z")
I also agree with Baron Greenback about Hammer House of Horror. The episode with Diana Dors was especially creepy, and I also liked the one with Peter Cushing and Brian Cox. UT~ ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/22 "2015-01-08T04:49:12Z")
It’s not Hammer, but you need to watch\* Night of the Demon\* (1957). Very scary film. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/23 "2015-01-08T14:59:17Z")
> [@alted315](#): > > wait wait wait what was the other one with no monsters? was that night of the demon? Not Hammer. But directed by the great Jacques Tourneur (_ **Cat People,** _ _**Out of the Past)**_. And I think you’re confused about the no-monsters thing: Tourneur fought to keep the demon a shadowy suggestion, which worked to such phenomenal effect in _ **Cat People** _, but was overruled and the film is nearly ruined by a giant rubber demon, added in post-production without Tourneur’s consent, that makes the Japanese monsters of the 60s look real by comparison. One of the most viscerally frightening movies I’ve ever seen. Recut and retitled \*\*\*Curse of the Demon \*\*\*for the U.S. market. Source of the quote “It’s coming! It’s in the trees!” at the beginning of Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love” from _ **Hounds of Love** _. ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/24 "2015-01-08T15:15:16Z")
I know it’s OT but speaking of old black and white horror movies has anyone ever seen THE BAD SEED ? I first saw this about 10 years ago and it made me want to go take a shower afterwards:eek: ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/25 "2015-01-08T22:24:53Z")
Has anyone ever seen “Cash on Demand” (1962) with Peter Cushing. It is a great suspenseful bank robbery story with a Dickens Christmas slant. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8g9zDQsnFNs/hqdefault.jpg "Cash On Demand 1962 (trailer).mp4") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g9zDQsnFNs) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/26 "2015-01-08T22:38:56Z")
You know, it’s arguably a bit hokey - but I’m also a fan of **Horror Express** , tenuously linked to Hammer by the presence of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. It has Telly Savalas as a scenery-chewing Cossack officer! It’s yet another story based ( very, very loosely ) on John Campbell’s _Who Goes There?_! It’s set on the Trans-Siberian Express! What’s not to love? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/27 "2015-01-08T22:47:08Z")
Most of the _Dracula_ films suffer from the defect that Christopher Lee was underused (often criminally so) and didn’t get to do or say very much other than stride about wrapped in a cloak - perhaps because he had a good agent and was getting paid by the day. I thought the last Lee/Cushing one was perhaps the best script. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/28 "2015-01-09T12:12:51Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > You know, it’s arguably a bit hokey - but I’m also a fan of **Horror Express** , tenuously linked to Hammer by the presence of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. It has Telly Savalas as a scenery-chewing Cossack officer! It’s yet another story based ( very, very loosely ) on John Campbell’s _Who Goes There?_! It’s set on the Trans-Siberian Express! > > What’s not to love? 😉 Indeed. Who wouldn’t love a story about a thawed-out caveman possessed by an ancient alien entity that can suck people’s life experience right out of their brains (and later jump from body to body as the need arises) running around a train speeding its way across frozen Siberia? ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/29 "2015-01-09T17:11:59Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > Indeed. Who wouldn’t love a story about a thawed-out caveman possessed by an ancient alien entity that can suck people’s life experience right out of their brains (and later jump from body to body as the need arises) running around a train speeding its way across frozen Siberia? If you say it that way, it sounds a bit silly ;):D:D …but it is a fun movie. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/30 "2015-01-09T18:39:50Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > If you say it that way, it sounds a bit silly ;):D:D And I didn’t even mention the zombies. It is also one of my favorite horror movies, even in the Lee & Cushing category; I love it more than is reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/31 "2015-01-09T19:05:09Z")
Awww…Madeleine Collinson, the “evil” twin [passed](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/madeleine-collinson-playboy-centrefold-model-who-also-appeared-with-her-sister-mary-in-the-horror-film-twins-of-evil-9856981.html) [away](http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-madeleine-collinson-actress-1-3606879) at 62 this last August. Emphysema and a failed ventilator during a power outage. Too young :(. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/32 "2015-01-10T15:16:34Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > Most of the _Dracula_ films suffer from the defect that Christopher Lee was underused (often criminally so) and didn’t get to do or say very much other than stride about wrapped in a cloak - perhaps because he had a good agent and was getting paid by the day. I thought the last Lee/Cushing one was perhaps the best script. Oh, Lee still speaks of being underused & either given no dialogue or no dialogue he was willing to say, and asserts that the only reason he kept doing Dracula movies is that the Hammer execs guilted him about how many peoples’ jobs depended on him. I believe it was in the last one (Satanic Rites of D…) that he incorporated some lines from Stoker into the script. ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/33 "2015-01-13T21:18:40Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > My Hammer favorites- > Curse of Frankenstein starring Cushing & Lee > Horror of Dracula starring Lee & Cushing > Brides of Dracula starring Cushing & David Peel as Baron Meinster, a vampire disciple of Count D > Frankenstein Created Woman - Cushing > Dracula Has Risen From the Grave - Lee > Dracula A.D. 1972 - Lee & Cushing > The Satanic Rites of Dracula - Lee & Cushing > SHE - Ursula Andress > Curse of the Werewolf - Oliver Reed > Phantom of the Opera - Herbert Lom > The Vampire Lovers (Le Fanu’s Carmilla) starring Ingrid Pitt & Cushing > Countess Dracula (a fictionalized account of Elizabeth Bathory) - Pitt Just saw the trailer for Dracula A.D. 1972…looks like fun. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138/34 "2015-01-13T22:34:13Z")
> [@CGav8r](#): > > Just saw the trailer for Dracula A.D. 1972…looks like fun. It’s especially charming if you like cleavage. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-old-hammer-horror-films-you-can-recommend/709138.md?page=1)