If you say the words “Hammer Horror”, film lovers of a certain age will feel an immediate Proustian rush, thinking immediately of the appearances of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Ingrid Pitt, ...

No one wanted to remember that the greatest minds of their generation had designed a war that ultimately slaughtered over 16 ...

As with Mark Twain and Count Dracula, rumours of horror specialist Hammer’s demise ... and the one that really put Hammer on the map, was 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein, followed in 1958 ...

His breakthrough film was the 1957 British horror movie The Curse of Frankenstein, in which he played the creature; a year later, he took on the titular role in Dracula, and it became his ...

After all, there’s nothing particularly conducive to a great horror movie about a holiday ... we have alternate versions of Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man represented ...

Directed by Terence Fisher, this was gothic horror with a ravishing technicolour sheen, which lent the count’s stalkings and ...

Lon Chaney Jr. remains the only actor to portray the four legendary Universal monsters: The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein's ...

Every trope from a 1950s drive-in horror seems ... Set in 1957, the story follows an army of vampire zombies from outer space, led by none other than Dracula, who’s plotting to take over the ...

Every trope from a 1950s drive-in horror seems to collide in ... make something as a tribute to that.” Set in 1957, the story ...

A good horror host is like an inside joke ... decades later with a new host named Elvira), then spread nationwide in 1957 after the TV division of Columbia Pictures began offering stations ...