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.
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It’s not Hammer, but you need to watch* Night of the Demon* (1957). Very scary film.
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.
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:
Has anyone ever seen “Cash on Demand” (1962) with Peter Cushing. It is a great suspenseful bank robbery story with a Dickens Christmas slant.
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? 
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.
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.
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.
Awww…Madeleine Collinson, the “evil” twin passed away at 62 this last August. Emphysema and a failed ventilator during a power outage. Too young :(.
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.
Just saw the trailer for Dracula A.D. 1972…looks like fun.
It’s especially charming if you like cleavage. 