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Quatermass and the Pit

Starring: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Duncan Lamont
Directed By: Roy Ward Baker
We have met the enemy, and it is us: when a Martian spacecraft with a terrifying link to the origins of humanity is unearthed beneath a London tube station, only the esteemed Professor Bernard Quatermass (a very British--and possibly mad--precursor to Mulder a... [ read more ]

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The Plague of the Zombies

Starring: André Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, Jacqueline Pearce, John Carson
Directed By: John Gilling
Anticipating Night of the Living Dead by a couple of years, the John Gilling-directed Plague of the Zombies gives the gothic treatment to the stumbling undead. André Morell plays an unassuming medical professor called by a former student, villag... [ read more ]

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Frankenstein Created Woman

Starring: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters, Robert Morris, Duncan Lamont
Directed By: Terence Fisher

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The Witches

Starring: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell, Ingrid Boulting
Directed By: Cyril Frankel

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The Abominable Snowman

Starring: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown
Directed By: Val Guest
Made the same year as the gory gothic hit The Curse of Frankenstein, this smartly written, philosophically grounded Hammer studios adventure written by Nigel Kneale (who also wrote the excellent science fiction thriller Quatermass and its two seq... [ read more ]

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Quatermass 2

Starring: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, William Franklyn
Directed By: Val Guest
Considered by many critics to be the finest in the series, Hammer's second Quatermass feature (adapted from the television serial by Nigel Kneale) is a subversive alien invasion story. Professor Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) stumbles onto a top-secret gov... [ read more ]

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The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires/The Seven Brothers meet Dracula

Starring: Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, Robin Stewart, Szu Shih
Directed By: Cheh Chang, Roy Ward Baker

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X - The Unknown

Starring: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley, Jameson Clark
Directed By: Leslie Norman
Hammer Studios' attempt to replicate the success of the superior Quatermass films gives us a kinder, gentler hero, the polite and soft-spoken Dr. Royston (played with almost paternal kindness by American Dean Jagger). When the populace of the area surrounding... [ read more ]

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The Satanic Rites of Dracula

Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn, Freddie Jones
Directed By: Alan Gibson

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Rasputin, the Mad Monk

Starring: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Suzan Farmer
Directed By: Don Sharp
The life of the legendary Russian villain Grigori Rasputin was a natural for the Hammer's Gothic style and lurid edge, and the commanding Christopher Lee is the perfect star for the role. With his deep baritone voice and dark, deep-set eyes, Lee creates an int... [ read more ]