Hammer Heads
Filmmaker Miles Watts and horror ’enthusiast’ Marcus Wilson take a sideways look at the BFI’s list of top Hammer Horror films https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/great-hammer-horror-film-every-year
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4 days ago
4 days ago
Miles and Marcus take the Central Line to Hob's End to explore this devilish 1967 Sci-Fi offering from Hammer Studios.
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
In this double-Hammer-header episode, Marcus and Miles are joined by the co-creators of the Zomblogalypse movie, Hannah Bungard and Tony Hipwell, to discuss Hammer's foray into the zombie genre and how to direct the undead.
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Hammer embraces the psychological and the psychedelic in this little known mid-sixties classic. Miles and Marcus are more that a little impressed.
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Friday Jan 20, 2023
Or "Snakes on a Brain". Miles and Marcus explore the legend of Hammer Studio's first female monster, Megeara.
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Drac's back - but not as we know him! Miles and Marcus unearth Hammer Studio's little known 1963 vampire classic.
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Miles and Marcus talk hauntings, Cary Grant and Hammer Studio's take on Gaston Leroux's troublesome tale.
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Miles and Marcus get their teeth into the only werewolf movie from Hammer and dip their claws into werewolf movie lore.
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Miles and Marcus rediscover this gem from the early years of Hammer Horror. The only things that are missing are Dracula and Christopher Lee.
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Miles and Marcus are joined by Ritchie Wilkinson to discuss Hammer's adaptation of Conan Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes tale and a chance encounter with Christopher Lee.
Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
On what would have been Christopher Lee's 100th birthday, Miles and Marcus are joined by Stephen Mosley, author of a new biography about Lee. https://stephenmosley.net/
HAMMER STUDIOS
Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic horror and fantasy films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Many of these involve classic horror characters such as Baron Victor Frankenstein, Count Dracula, and the Mummy, which Hammer reintroduced to audiences by filming them in vivid colour for the first time.
During its most successful years, Hammer dominated the horror film market, enjoying worldwide distribution and considerable financial success. This success was, in part, due to its distribution partnerships with American companies United Artists, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, American International Pictures and Seven Arts Productions as well as fellow European film companies.