Tag Archives: Hammer

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

Posted on September 28, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Before there was Doctor Who, there was Professor Quatermass, the British scientist who battled the strangest of alien invasions in the 1953 BBC serial The Quatermass Experiment. The hit science fiction series, starring Reginald Tate as Quatermass, was blessed with … Continue reading →

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She (1965)

Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:14 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Hammer Films had grown steadily since the box office breakthroughs of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). Distributors knew that the British studio’s genre product was reliably classy and literate, but also sexy and violent; they … Continue reading →

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Double Feature: The Old Dark House/13 Frightened Girls! (1963)

Posted on September 7, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

For tonight’s double feature, we continue our survey of the films of William Castle. When last we checked in, he was taking a break from abject gimmickry and horror with Zotz! (1962), a slapstick comedy-fantasy of the sort that Walt … Continue reading →

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