Favourite Hammer Flick?

[palitoy]

For me it's Curse of Frankenstein, I love both the leads and think this is Hammer at it's best. I'm also a fan of a lot of their seventies fare, like the whole "Sexy Vampire" series. Even a bad Hammer film is a fun one for me.

[monkey tennis]

Quatermass and the pit, I think this movie is just brilliant. The special effects are bad the hero and heroine are sterotyped but the story is just great...there is something buried deep on the London Underground aliens from another world that cause a mass hypnosis making people running around like mindless zombies...love it.

[palitoy]

Quatermass and the pit, I think this movie is just brilliant. The special effects are bad the hero and heroine are sterotyped but the story is just great...there is something buried deep on the London Underground aliens from another world that cause a mass hypnosis making people running around like mindless zombies...love it.

Yeah that one had a big effect on me as a kid, the dead astronaut bug things were really neat.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I've always liked "Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter". Lots of potential for a series there.

"Curse of the Werewolf" is good. Oliver Reed really chews the scenery (and people!) in that one.

Chris

[Meule]

Oooh, very difficult to pick just one.
Lee and Cushing together = amazing chemistry.
Oliver Reed as the werewolf = love it
and the sexy vampire movies of course, what's not to love :grin:

[cjefferys]

I'd have to go with the original classics, CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and DRACULA (US: HORROR OF DRACULA). I also like DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS though, and being an Hong Kong film fan, I also have a soft spot for their collaboration with Shaw: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES, even though it wasn't really as good as it could have been.

[thunderbolt]

Really dug all the Frankie moves. all the technicolor guts and blood are big fun. And of course any that had heaving breasts!! :)

[MegoGeek]

My favorite is Brides of Dracula. It doesn't have Christopher Lee but Cushing is awesome.

[ramsey37]

That's a real poser, I love quite a few of the Hammer classics. I'll throw in a vote for the Hammer version of "The Mummy", just because no one else mentioned it ;) I also loved movies like "The Reptile" and "The Gorgon".
I saw "Quatermass and the Pit" under the title "Five Million Years to Earth". The Martian grasshoppers were nifty cool ;)
George

[toys2cool]

I'd have to go with all the Christopher Lee Dracula movies :grin:

[The Toyroom]

I always liked the Christopher Lee Dracula series also.

[kingdom warrior]

Impossible for me to pick just one Hammer Flicks were the best

[fallensaviour]

:terror:
I am going to have to go with these as well,
Lee as Dracula
Oliver Reed as the werewolf
Okay what the heck I'll say any Frankie movie as well. :googly:

[cjefferys]

My father named me after Christopher Lee. He even wanted to make my middle name "Lee", but my mother nixed that part of the plan. :smiley1:

[Goblin19]

The Horror of Dracula is my favorite, but there's a lot of other great one. If I had to pick a second, I'd go with Captain Kronos. But even the mediocre ones are still entertaining.

[Werewolf]

The Mummy. Lee made a very imposing Kharis.

[Earth 2 Chris]

My favorite is Brides of Dracula. It doesn't have Christopher Lee but Cushing is awesome.

Ooh, I forgot about that one! Isn't that the one where Van Helsing uses the windmill to make a giant cross? If so, that is a good one!

Chris

[ShadowAvenger]

I've always liked "Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter". Lots of potential for a series there.

"Curse of the Werewolf" is good. Oliver Reed really chews the scenery (and people!) in that one.

Chris

I like Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter as well mostly because of Caroline Munro. I also like Dracula 1972 A.D. because of her too.

[lepage]

For me its a tie between The curse of Frankenstein and Frankenstein and the monster from Hell. Dave prowse was brilliant in monster from Hell but one thing that got me when I was a kid was the way they quickly panned in on Christopher Lee's face when he removes the bandages in Curse.

[Boris71]

it's a three way Tie for me captain kronos, the mummy, and blood from the mummys tomb, but all the hammer films are good to me

All horror filmmakers should see these films before they can get to make a filck,

[Bo8a_Fett]

Love all Hammer movies (apparently the label is starting to make movies again)...and to narrow it down to just one is really hard...favs are Quatermass and the pit...anything with Cushion and Lee in it....but I think i'll pick...
Dr Jekll and Sister Hyde
as an original take on a classic, plus I loved Martine Beswick, Ralph Bates was always underestimated as an actor, so much in it for the horror fan....Burke and Hare("Burke by name and a berk by nature"),Jack the Ripper, shades of Sherlock Holmes, and some of the dialogue appears to have come straight out of a carry on movie.Great stuff...

[raider5gt]

I like Lee and Cushing,i also like The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires,Horror Kung Fu,the guy with the axes,wicked man.

[YoungOnce]

I agree that horor film-makers today should watch the Hammer films. They just seem to drip with heavy mood and melancholy. Long before any creature makes it's appearance, you feel a sense of dread and foreboding.

Tame by todays standards, they really are "horror" movies. Someone asked on another thread "What movies do you watch around Halloween?".

For me, I love to pull out an old Hammer Dracula flic.

Too, some of my first memories of becoming aware of (ahem) the female shape, were of those buxom ladies in the Hammer movies... and of Ginger and Mary Ann.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Don't forget the "strawberry jam" blood........