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Further Reading: Hammer Horror's MySpace Revival Stumbles

by Kim Newman | August 22, 2008

Summary

Does a new collection of webisodes hosted on MySpace and featuring tabloid teen favourites Jamie Dornan and Lois Winstone constitute a revival of the Hammer Horror film? Not so, says Kim Newman... Back to Article

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Some guy you dont know writes:
on Aug 22 2008 11:54 AM

I am so there.

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criddic writes:
on Aug 24 2008 01:59 AM

Hammer Horror films once meant stylish, but low-budget, fare. The one film recently that reminded me of that kind of film, although with a bigger budget, was "30 Days of Night." Relatively little blood and guts but with decent suspense and a real story. At least the late 1950s and 1960s Hammer films were like that. The 1970s brought on more gore effects and less style, as they tried to bring their stories into the modern world. I wish they made films like that now. I bet Roger Corman and Wes Craven could come up with some good ones if they wanted to. But both of them abandoned "style" long ago, and Corman seems to be retired. No one in the tradition of Hammer director Terence Fisher, but Christopher Lee is still around.

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Bigbrother writes:
on Aug 26 2008 12:37 AM

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30 days of Night had relatively little Blood and Guts? Isn't that the movie where the vampires go around with permanent red beards and the one guy gets fed into the gears of a power generator, but I take your point about being low budget. I think Dracula 2000 was more in the vain or the old Lee/Cushing Hammer films.

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