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Brides of Dracula ***½ (1960, Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, Mona Washbourne) – Classic Movie Review 2,942

Peter Cushing returns as vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing in Hammer Films’ 1960 horror film Brides of Dracula, Terence Fisher’s first sequel to the 1958 Dracula, but David Peel replaces Christopher Lee as chief vampire […]

Oct, 02

The Ghoul ** (1975, Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo) – Classic Movie Review 2906

Director Freddie Francis’s 1975 British horror movie is an unusual, strenuous tale of terror in the attic, with the odd imaginative touch glittering among a generous helping of horror-movie clichés. Anthony Hinds’s plot is certainly […]

Sep, 13

The Blood Beast Terror * (1968, Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 2899

Director Vernon Sewell’s 1967 mad scientist horror movie made for Britain’s Tigon studios is all about Victorian insect scientist Dr Carl Mallinger (Robert Flemyng), who creates a creature while working with genetics.  The canny creature […]

Sep, 11

Fear in the Night ** (1972, Judy Geeson, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, James Cossins) – Classic Movie Review 2895

A strong cast bolsters co-writer/ director Jimmy Sangster’s sporadically frightening and sometimes inventive 1972 Hammer Films shocker. Judy Geeson stars as a nervy young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown who is terrorised by strange […]

Sep, 08

The Gorgon *** (1964, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Patrick Troughton, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 2888

‘A Monster With the Power to Turn Living Screaming Flesh Into Stone!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 Hammer horror The Gorgon has an eerie touch in its story about the snake-haired mythical creature The Gorgon taking […]

Sep, 07

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ** (1974, Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, Shih Szu, John Forbes-Robertson, Robin Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 2.857

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is a tolerable experience, but the mix of Michael Carreras’s British Hammer horror and Hong Kong film producer Run Run Shaw’s kung fu is uneasy, to say the […]

Aug, 28

Dracula AD 1972 ** (1972, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Marsha Hunt, Christopher Neame, Caroline Munro, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 2,856

Hammer Films’ misguided and lame-brained effort to modernise the Dracula tale to the supposedly still swinging London of the early Seventies fails on nearly every count. The 1972 British horror film Dracula AD 1972 is […]

Aug, 28

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