Hammer Horror on Blu-ray

The eye of the Phantom (Herbert Lom) in Terence Fisher's Phantom of the Opera (1962)

Hammer Films are, of course, best known for launching the modern era of horror with their late ’50s colour reworkings of the Universal classics from the ’30s, beginning with Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958). These movies, colourful, somewhat perverse for the time, and more graphic than earlier films in the genre, inspired Roger […]

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Gerry Anderson 1929-2012

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