Hammer Films has risen from the grave Classic film fans lock up your daughters, take up your wooden stakes and prepare to battle the forces of darkness: Hammer Films has announced it's called action on its first horror production for over 30 years. Principal photography began today in County Donegal on The Wake Wood, featuring Eva Birthistle, Aidan Gillen and …
Quatermass And The Pit is excellent, whether the film or the television production. The surviving episodes from the original television versions of the BBC Quatermass stories are available on DVD and well worth getting.
Nigel Kneale was not happy with Brian Donley's portrayal of Quatermass IIRC. Dunno if that's got something to do with the film version not being out on DVD?
> THESE GUYS AR UDNERAPRECATED [etc]
I probably could have said it less clearly, throwing in something about the futility of trying to recapture the spirit of Hammer horror (The Reptile!), eh -- what next? Remaking Ealing comedies? Carry On maybe even (oops)?, b
but then I can't be bothered --- I have my just-arrived telescopic magnet-on-a-stick (with LED light!) to play w^h^h^h^h^h^h retrieve dropped screws from my desktop chassis.
I still like the Hammer House of Horror productions. There is a slightly campy quyality to them despite having some of the biggest names in the genre in them. Horror movies now just seems to compete in how much blood they can fill the set with. No style.
Mine is the one with the plastic, glow in the dark vampire teeth.
Hammer Films...a British classic. No one thought ANYone could replace Lugosi until Lee (feral and predatory) showed his pearlies. And don't forget the collaboration with Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers studios, "Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires," with Peter Cushing and David Chiang battling Chinese vamps in the then-Brit Colony (with Julie Ege as eye-candy).
Still, the question remains, and I throw it as a gauntlet to readers of El Reg:
Ingrid Pitt? Or Barbara Shelley?
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Perhaps something along the lines of a vengeful old vampire hunting down a shabby, hairy, movie director with a dodgy grasp of editing?
Come to think of it, Peter Jackson would be perfect for playing Drac's more-or-less human familiar. :D
No vampire bat, so toss-up between vulture and Steve Ballmer.
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