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The wonderful key to Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee's pairings in Hammer horror films is that the former played the cerebral and the latter inevitably played the animal. It allowed them to expertly trade off between menace and sympathy.

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A disheveled baron contemplates his escape from the guillotine in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) 🖤

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I’ve been watching and enjoying several Hammer Horror classics recently. I haven’t had the pleasure of The Reptile yet but “Roy Aston’s” creature design is so striking that I wanted to draw her. #TheReptile #hammerhorror #hammerhouseofhorror #Movies #FanArt #Pencil #Paper #MorningDoodle

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Hammer’s take on The Phantom of the Opera received its London premiere on this day in 1962 🖤

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A masterclass in marketing. Even the packaging is branded. Dammit, which means I have to keep it! Well done #hammer #quatermass

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On this day in 1961, Hammer’s superb first psychological thriller, Taste of Fear, was released in the UK. 🖤

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The count resurrected, only to be sent to a watery grave! Dracula: Prince of Darkness completed filming on this day in 1965 🖤

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Happy Pride Month to Hammer’s rainbow fam. The Vampire Lovers (1970) 🖤

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Here comes the weekend. Have a bloody good one Hammer fam 🖤

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Cracking new Quatermass 2 trailer just released from Hammer 🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVNF...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Quatermass on the big screen, Hammer fiends! 🖤 hammerfilms.com/pages/book-y...

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Behind the scenes on Quatermass 2, which began principal photography this week in 1956 🖤

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Tal día como hoy nació Christopher Lee. 🦇🩸

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

The significance of Lee and Hammer’s transformative portrayal of the count in Dracula (1958) remains impossible to overlook in the evolution of horror. 🖤

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

And today, on what would be his 103rd birthday, we celebrate Cushing’s eternal partner in crime and fellow horror and genre giant, the utterly magnificent Sir Christopher Lee 🖤

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Happy birthday to the fantastic Peter Cushing! This is part 1 of a little thread on the films of his we've covered on General Witchfinders. Honestly thought we’d done more. What’s your favourite? #PeterCushing (Part 2 coming up…) 1 of 3

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One of the Cush’s most deliciously iconic moments as the baron. Frankenstein Must be Destroyed (1969) 🖤

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Ruthless baron, vampire hunter extraordinaire and SO much more, happy heavenly birthday to the gentleman of horror, the one and only Mr Peter Cushing, today! 🖤

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Something wicked's afoot in the English countryside, again. Underrated Hammer folk chiller with a fabulous Fontaine and superbly satanic Walsh. 1966 #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam #hammerhorror

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Quatermass 2, Hammer’s next restored HDR release, first screened in the UK on this day in 1957 🖤

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

#hammer #horror by #brucetimm

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On this day in 1969, Hammer’s masterful Frankenstein Must be Destroyed, featuring Cushing’s most amoral Baron, was released in the UK 🖤

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VHS artwork for The Gorgon (1964) 🖤

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On this date 55 years ago, Anthony (Tony) Hinds retired from Hammer Films after being with the company for over 30 years. Hear the fascinating story of the driving force behind Hammer Horror in our Evil of Frankenstein episode available now. 👉 bit.ly/3GRphKS 👈

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Hammer to release Quatermass 2 in limited 4K edition for the very first time! 🖤 hammerfilms.com/products/qua...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Happy 79th Birthday to Danish actress Yutte Stensgaard, of Hammer’s Lust for a Vampire (1971) 🖤

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It’s a monster Monday as far as we’re concerned with our latest look into what exactly was THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN (1964)! bit.ly/3GRphKS

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Happy heavenly birthday to Yvonne Furneaux, a beautiful and refined French-British actress who worked with the likes of Fellini, Polanski…and our beloved Terence Fisher in The Mummy (1959). 🖤

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Happy 78th birthday to actor Anthony Higgins (formally Corlan), who starred for Hammer as both Dracula defeater and the studio’s most feral vampire 🖤

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