Top 10 HAMMER FILMS

[RCMerchant]

Top 10 Time again!



Your Top Ten Hammer Horrors!!!

Understand-I havn't seen all the Hammer films....I really need to see TWINS OF EVIL,LUST FOR A VAMPIRE ,PARANOIC...amog many more.
Well...here are mine...in no certain order...
1.SCARS OF DRACULA (1970)-Dracula gets to speak agin! In the 3 previous outings-after HORROR of DRACULA-Lee's Count was virtually mute-beyond stuff like -"YOU" or "COME". Plus it's a bloody mess!
2.the VAMPIRE LOVERS (1970)-Ingrid Pitt! I recall my Dad and my stepma left us kids-I was all of 8 and my older brother was 10-to go see this. I saw the ads on tv-I think what attracted Dad was the X rating. Lesbian vampires. Cool.
3.ONE MILLION BC (1966)-Dinosaurs! Raquel Welch! Harryhause! Raquel Welch! Hammer! Racheal Welch!
4.the QUARTERMAS XPERIMENT (1955) Great sci fi! And the man mutating into this huge...blob monster-awesome.
5.TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1969)-I really like this one alot. Best scene-Ralph Bates drinks Dracula's blood-and morphs into Christopher Lee-red eyes blazing!
6.The EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN (1964)-Yeah-ok-most would choose CURSE,REVENGE,or MUST BE DESTROYED-but this is my favorite. I just love Kiwi Kingston's rampaging monster! And the scene where he crushes the girl's doll with his big-ass foot creeped me out as a kid!
7.CAPTAIN KRONOS-VAMPIRE HUNTER (1974)-I liked the idea of vampires that drained your youth. And the swashbuckling setting. I wish Hammer had survived long enough to have done a sequel.
8.5 MILLION YEARS FROM EARTH (1967) Alien insects! I love Prof.Quartermass's relentless scientific determination-even if it means the end of the human race. Favorite line-"They were jumping! JUMPING!"
9.the HORROR of DRACULA (1958)-It's just a beautiful,lush,looking film. And the climax with Cushing leaping across the table to yank the curtains and pinning Dracula down with the candle sticks formed as a cross-Lee's crumbling to dust. Classic.
10. The MUMMY (1959)-Lee's fast,stalking Kharis-with his scary darting eyes-much better than any of the slow stumbling Universal mummy's (sorry Lon!)

I wish they hadn't went belly up when they did-they had planned to do a film version of Vampirella! Famous Monsters magazine-in cahoots with Hammer films-took a poll of what Hammers next horror would be...and it was annouced! But sadly...it entered the realm of things not meant to be. Years latter that crap version came out with Roger Daltry-ugh. What a shame.

[Chainsawmidget]

Hammer was going to make Vampirella?  That would have been awesome!  ... as opposed to what we did get, which was just awful. 

[JaseSF]

I have a huge preference for Sci-Fi films myself:

1) The Quatermass Xperiment - Actually RC already described this one well...it's a pretty freaky film actually and the hand melding with the plant really was quite startling.

2) Quatermass and the Pit - fantastic Sci-fi story every bit as epic arguably as 2001 but done on a more B-movie level. Humanity owes its existence to....???

3) Quatermass 2 - just cannot go wrong with Quatermass in the 50s and 60s and this one has its thrilling moments too and a terrific climax.

4) X the Unknown - you know it's great when it makes sludge seem menacing.

5) Revenge of Frankenstein - my personal fave of the Frankenstein films...actually I typically find myself rooting on Baron Frankenstein in this film, something I could't really do in any other of the films.

6) The Mummy (1959) - fantastic and exciting Mummy movie, one of the all time best!

7) The Horror of Dracula - pretty darn fine adaptation of the classic Dracula story and gives him arguably even more bite and edge.

8) One Milllion Years B.C. - Ray Harryhausen dinosaurs and yep Raquel Welch.

9) The Vampire Lovers - Ingrid Pitt indeed!!! drool...

10) The Abominable Snowman - just a fantastic film on every level. A real surprise winner if you've never seen it.

Honorable Mentions:

The Kiss of the Vampire
Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
The Hound of the Baskervilles
These Are the Damned
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
Taste of Fear
Cash on Demand

[RCMerchant]

^Jase!-I would more than likey added more QUATERMASS films to my list-but-theses were the only two Ive seen!
of the Frankenstein series-REVENGE is my second favorite...but I got a weird soft spot for the MONSTER FROM HELL...
not only does it have a great expliotation title worthy of Al Adamson-it's got a big hairy eyeless monster! And Cushing is as heartless as ever as the good Doctor!

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Fact is-I love ALL Hammer films-good bad or ugly. 

[RCMerchant]

Hammer was going to make Vampirella?  That would have been awesome!  ... as opposed to what we did get, which was just awful. 

Ingrid Pitt would have been the perfect Vampirella-if not Caroline Munro. It could have been classic.

 heavy sigh

[Hammock Rider]

Horror of Dracula
Curse of the Werewolf
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
Brides of Dracula
Vampire Circus
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Curse of Frankenstein
Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires
Stranglers of Bombay

 That Raquel Welch one was pretty good too.

[Raffine]

Can't dispute what everyone else has said, so I'll mention a couple more favorites.

THE GORGON - The plot about one of the snake-haired Gorgon Sisters haunting a small English village is one of the most atmospheric and gloomy of the Hammer horrors. Lee and Cushing are both great playing roles seemingly originally written for the other actor. Probably THE most down-beat of all the Hammer endings.

THE REPTILE - Imaginative, off beat story involving a sort of were-snake and Indian magic and curses with a particularly memorable monster. Otherwise good film is marred by a really awful ending.

PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES - One of the last pre-NOTLD zombie films features some creeping walking dead forced to work as slaves in an English mine. Featuring "Burning Crazed Zombies!".

[alandhopewell]

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