Marty
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Post by Marty on Apr 7, 2007 15:35:41 GMT
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RNL
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Post by RNL on Apr 7, 2007 15:57:01 GMT
Ah, Hammer. Now that's something I've been meaning to delve into for years.
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Marty
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Post by Marty on Apr 7, 2007 22:46:52 GMT
Ah, Hammer. Now that's something I've been meaning to delve into for years. Hammer is always worth a delve, Wetdog. early Fisher and Roy Ward Baker especially, given their budgets and contemporary censorship, extremely taut film-making. Outside of the so called "horror" genre too, are some very worthy thrillers which became known as "Mini Hitchcocks" that are definitely gems to be sought out.
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Post by RNL on Dec 30, 2007 18:20:02 GMT
The delve approaches!
It's just, that boxset I got is mostly second-tier Hammer movies, so the Dracula, Frankenstein and Mummy films included are the thirds and fourths in the series. I'm downloading the originals, and The Curse of the Werewolf played on Sky Movies last night.
The only Fisher films included in the box are Dracula: Prince of Darkness (#3), Frankenstein Created Woman (#4) and standalone The Devil Rides Out.
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Post by Capo on Dec 30, 2007 18:21:55 GMT
There's an interesting letter (of the month) in the most recent S&S about Fisher, praising him gloriously. The gist seemed to be (from memory) that, like David Lean, he began as an editor then became a director, but unlike Lean (in later years), was able to work on shoestring budgets and able to recycle sets and costumes and actors from film to film, something that Lean and his epics dwarfed in terms of financial profit and critical praise.
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Post by RNL on Dec 31, 2007 3:30:21 GMT
1. Dracula (1958) 7/10 2. The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) 4/10
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Post by Anasazie on Nov 30, 2008 11:20:21 GMT
1. Dracula (1958) 5/10
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