Anyone like the Hammer Frankenstein movies
Tell me anyone like the Hammer Frankenstein movies so sent me a message.
Charles
Tell me anyone like the Hammer Frankenstein movies so sent me a message.
Charles
I do, in fact I'am watching Revenge of frankenstein right now. I really enjoyed the curse of .... What are your favs.
shareHow can you watch the movie if youre typing at the computer.. good god.. today's kids..
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How can you watch the movie if youre typing at the computer.. good god.. today's kids..
They are fantastic. Wat better than the Dracula ones also done by the Hammer, that nontheless get more attention.
shareWhy better? Only yer opinion and it is based on not much.
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
Well, yes it's only my opinion, which is based in the impression that the Frankenstein ones resisted better the years. Had, for me, more of a classic feeling. Some of the Dracula ones had aged horribly, with the music and the clothes and all. Not to say with this that they're all bad. They go over any vampire movie done recently, with the exception (to my view) of "Interview..." and Carpenter's "Vampires".
shareI enjoy the Hammer Frankenstein films, but the Draculas are my favorite. I think that's mostly because I like to see Cushing and Lee together, and that happens more in the Dracula series. The Frankenstein films don't seem to have pandered as much to popular culture at the time, which might lead to eva's feeling that they have held up better over the years. Thematically they keep reaching back past the source material to Shelly's inspirations like Burke and Hare (also depicted in film with Cushing in "The Flesh and The Fiends", but not by Hammer). So instead of modernizing and expanding the story as the Dracula series did, the Frankenstein films actually reach back to the story's roots; thus delving deeper into its core themes of grave robbing, the questioning of science, and the tragedy of good intentions leading to terrible outcomes.
As for Hammer films in general, probably the best in quality from Hammer is The Mummy and The Hound of The Baskervilles. Quality work with style and class; and to top it off, THOTB is extraordinarily faithful to the source material.
An if you want to see what another decade of Hammer could have been, check out Captain Kronos. It single-handedly creates what vampire films have become since. Unbelievably fresh and modern feeling, in spite of being 33 years old, while still keeping the Hammer sense of class.
(yeah, I'm a big British horror fan)
Couldn't agree with you more about Hammer Films (generally) and the Hound of the Baskervilles specifically. Great stuff and underappreciated.
You might have added the word "uncharacteristically" to your description of Hound as "extraordinarily faithful to the source material."
There have been a number of very good movies (from Hammer, among others) of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Phantom of the Opera, not to mention Sherlock Holmes. There have even been more then a few truly GREAT movies based on this source material.
Alas, though, I am still waiting for a film of Frankenstein, Dracula or Phantom that is even REMOTELY faithful to the original.
i love the hammer frankenstein films and agree they're better then the hammer dracula films (though i do like them too.) only a few of the dracula films are really inspired to me. plus christopher lee is a great dracula but i'm not sure he's the greatest dracula. peter cushing without a doubt is the greatest dr. frankenstein, hands down. i find mad scientest stories inheritantly interesting if done right and i've always loved how the hammer series puts more interest on the doctor then the monster, unlike all other frankenstein films.
shareEnjoyed "The Curse of Frankenstein." Did not care for "Revenge of Frankenstein." Haven't seen the other sequels yet.
Would rather watch the first three Hammer Dracula films, "Horror of Dracula," "The Brides of Dracula" and "Dracula: Prince of Darkness."
^ Agreed. "Curse" was decent but there was almost zero suspense in "Revenge." It was just a tale of doctors animating a lifeless body who, when awake, was completely normal for a while, until he gets in a fight and suffers a bruised brain. Whether that's interesting or not interesting is a subject of debate I suppose, but one thing's for sure - it's certainly not suspenseful or scary. I kept waiting for the moment I would be on the edge of my seat....and I'm still waiting. Cushing was a great actor but there's just no suspense to this flick at all. When Karl kills the girl in the park, it almost feels like a throw-in - as if the producers said 'heck we've got to make him do something.' Other than that, he hid in a stable and otherwise acted normally until his body began to break down and he died. The end. I guess we are supposed to be concerned/scared by the prospect of the doctors continuing their experiments in London, but that doesn't work either, because Karl wasn't scary to begin with. So them possibly making another 'Karl' is not alarming in the least. IDK very disappointed with this one.
shareWhen Karl kills the girl in the park, it almost feels like a throw-in - as if the producers said 'heck we've got to make him do something.'
LIKE THEM!When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
Absolutely my favorite horror series ever, 'must be destroyed' and 'revenge' are my personal favorites. the Dracula series was excellent too but I didn't care for 'AD' or 'Satanic Rites' much. I agree with the above poster, 'The Mummy' and "hound' are amazing films.
shareThe sets and wardrobes are incredible.
So, to sum it up in legal terminology: Get lost, you bum.
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I've only seen the first two but so far I like them. Not as much as the Dracula films of course, but they're still good.
I've been waiting for you, Ben.
Yes - brilliant stuff. Admittedly, no-one did it better than Karloff in the original, it was his baby, let's face it. But after that, Christopher Lee in 'The Curse of Frankenstein' did such a maniacal monster, even in some ways, performance-wise, matching his sadistic 'Dracula'! Unbelievably kitsch, you still can't fault Hammer's Frankenstein!
shareI prefer the Dracula films, but these aren't bad. Had a "Carry On" moment in this when Victor said to a patient "You must have it off immediately!"
shareThey are some of the best films that Hammer has ever made.
shareThe first two Hammer Frankenstein films are good (especially 'Curse'); the third, however, is very average whilst 'Frankenstein Created Woman' is surprisingly decent. Haven't seen the final few but Peter Cushing is always good value, so will be keeping my eye out for them on The Horror Channel
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