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Hammer Horror and the British bloods
Public Group active 1 year, 10 months ago agoGo here to celebrate not only the glory days of the ‘Kensington gore’ but also any British horror film that merits a mention!
With so many interesting films produced since the glory days of Hammer, use this group to discuss and rave about the classics and resurrect those British obscurities that you feel true horror fans need to see!
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Hammer Horror and the British bloods January 14, 2010 4:59 amFor a certain generation (certainly in Britain in the 1970′s…though I’d be fascinated to know of any of your experiences elsewhere) the weekly ritual of watching ‘Doctor Who’ was, I suspect, partially to blame for an interest in ‘gothic horror’.
My era was the Tom Baker era, and storylines such as ‘The Talons of Weng Chiang’ and ‘The Horror…[Read more]
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There’s a lot of cross-over with the casting…this tended to happen in all of British drama, all sorts of people would turn up! I believe that the Producer of the show in the 70′s was fascinated by the darker side of genre fiction and actively tried to make the show a little more complex and adult, hence the Hammer feeling about a number of the…[Read more]