I did see Blood from a Mummy's Tomb a couple of years back and was impressed only with Valerie Leon's leonine beauty. But I'll be giving the two 1960s Hammer mummy movies a try over the next few days.
I started to watch blood from a mummy's tomb off TV the other night. I think hands up honest reason was to see Valerie. 15 mins in it was bedtime. Part 2 another night
I did see Blood from a Mummy's Tomb a couple of years back and was impressed only with Valerie Leon's leonine beauty. But I'll be giving the two 1960s Hammer mummy movies a try over the next few days.
I started to watch blood from a mummy's tomb off TV the other night. I think hands up honest reason was to see Valerie. 15 mins in it was bedtime. Part 2 another night
My experience with it exactly, lol!
I didn't get too interested in the other Hammer Mummys either. I'm having better luck with their pirate movies though (Captain Clegg).
The Curse Of Frankenstein Dracula (still awaiting a decent looking Blu-ray) Curse Of The Werewolf The Mummy Terror Of The Tongs She - not a horror or a particularly good film, but I like it & would love a good looking Blu-ray. Phantom Of The Opera Brides of Dracula Kiss Of The Vampire The Gorgon The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb The Lost Continent.
What's wrong with the current ones ( are they that bad) I keep holding off , too.
Well first we had the BFI restoration, & for some reason they decided that the bright colours we'd seen all these years was wrong (?) so they shoved a lot of cyan/blue into the picture & it made for a very flat dull cool picture. And then the Warner Archive release (a rare Warner mis-fire), where they crushed the blacks in some scenes. It really needs for someone to start again from scratch & do it right.
LIFEFORCE was also more or less influenced by QUATERMASS AND THE PIT.
However, I am really surprised about the similarities of many shots and sequences both in Q&tP and Star Trek's RETURN OF THE ARCHONS !! I think they most have been written and made ca. at the same time ?
As I can't see any similarities through my minds eye, I am intrigued and am interested in how you came to that finding.
I couldn't find screenshots online to make more clear what I mean but compare the mayhem in Archon's "Red Hour" and what happens in Q&tP when people are attacking&killing each other under the influence of the Martian.
I couldn't find screenshots online to make more clear what I mean but compare the mayhem in Archon's "Red Hour" and what happens in Q&tP when people are attacking&killing each other under the influence of the Martian.
Mr Cobweb's list (Viscount's YouTube link above) is pretty good. I don't agree with all his choices, but he's not me and I'm not him, but I enjoyed seeing a guy about 50 years younger than me speaking knowledgably and enthusiastically about stuff that old geezers like me love.
His list -
10) PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 9) DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE 8) CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF 7) BRIDES OF DRACULA 6) TWINS OF EVIL 5) PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES 4) DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE 3) (HORROR OF) DRACULA 1) THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Nice to see the two grand-daddies of the Hammer output jostling for top space, when "new thinking" would put something like DRACULA A.D. 1972 as "certainly the most fun Hammer film of all time". None of that here, thankfully. After Cobwebs had put DRAC HAS RISEN in the third place, I was fearing the worst, but he did well and cheered this old fogey up. I used to think that (HORROR OF) DRAC was my all-time fave, followed by CURSE OF FRANK. Now I prefer FRANK, so me n' Cobwebs are buddies now.
I watched a lot of Hammers earlier this year and my favourites were the early ones: the first Dracula, the first Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Phantom Of The Opera, and I'll throw in The Man Who Could Cheat Death and Plague Of The Zombies as well. As they went along they did get worse (Scars Of Dracula is particularly terrible), and the sexed-up ones like Countess Dracula and The Vampire Lovers weren't any good either, but of the mid-period ones I'd also thumbs-up Captain Kronos, Quatermass And The Pit and Blood From The Mummy's Tomb.
Good list, but is Hammer's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA a horror movie ? Don't get me wrong - it is a very well made movie but certainly not a horror movie. At least nor for me, especially compared to Chaney's Phantom. It's more a costume melodrama.
Good list, but is Hammer's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA a horror movie ? Don't get me wrong - it is a very well made movie but certainly not a horror movie. At least nor for me, especially compared to Chaney's Phantom. It's more a costume melodrama.
Arthur, Mr Cobwebs does say that PHANTOM is low on horror, but he included it anyway - at the Number 10 spot. Haven't seen it m'self for ages. It did the trick for me when I was nine, but I'd like to think I've matured a bit since then. On the other hand, I'd rather enjoy it than not enjoy it, whether that be through the eyes of an innocent nine-year-old or through the jaded half-blind retina juice of a decrepit old sozzled windbag.
