Thanks for watching, be sure to check out our Hammer Dracula retrospective part 1 ruclips.net/video/KCX1j5YZkls/видео.html and part 2 ruclips.net/video/s1KScQ67XnY/видео.html
Underated? Cushing is probably the Best actor, I mean he's literally immortalized now within the Star Wars Franchise because of his great performance as Tarkin.
Close friends in real life, Lee visited Cushing as Cushing was dying of cancer. To make the best of things, they howled with laughter while watching Daffy Duck cartoons. That's real friendship.
And the public part of that final meeting is on RUclips, courtesy of Ted Newsom, who orchestrated the narration for Flesh & Blood, and the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society UK. ruclips.net/video/7T2WrnFzepw/видео.html
I went to an evening of hammer Dracula films being shown on the big screen at the Barbican. Halfway through Christopher Lee was introduced onto stage and gave a tearful tribute to the recently departed Cushing. Clearly loved the man dearly
"Props" was Peter Cushing's nickname, because he loved inventing bits of business. He claimed that the climactic scene in Horror of Dracula was his idea : "I said why not do a bit of a Douglas Fairbanks ? Suppose I run along the table and leap for the curtains; they fall down and the sunlight pours in ..."
Just seeing that scene of Cushing tearing across that table, launching himself at the curtains was what got me into horror films. I grew up with these films. Thank you 😊
I must agree...the finale of 1958's "Horror of Dracula" offers one of the greatest film climaxes in cinema history. Still holds up even by today's standards.
Dead on with Peter Cushing. I would absolutely trust his Van Helsing because not only is he intellectual formidable but also insanely comforting. When he and Michael Gough saved that child from Lucy, I love how he placed priority on comforting the child. It was so warm and unexpected.
I remember at around 7 years old I saw Bela Lugosi's Dracula with my sister on a late show one Friday night. The next movie I saw was the Gorgon with Lee and Cushing. Man, at that age the introduction music was so scary I had to turn the TV off after 2 minutes worrying the serpent would jump out of the screen. That music was dark and threatening. Lee was the Prince of Draculas no doubt about it. Hammer, along with Amicus and Trigon movies were pure quality. A goldmine of movies from late 1950s to early 1970s. Lee, the Prince of Draculas, and Cushing the ultimate cold ruthless Baron Frankenstein.....two mega legends of genius. But actually there was a third legend.... the third being Vincent Price....in the brilliant Dr Phibes series & Theatre of Blood. A great era of cinema when there were no computers to do the fancy CG effects you see today. Golden memories indeed.
Your #1 pick with the ending of Dracula (1958) was 100% spot-on! Perhaps the best ending in horror film history and the scene that defines Hammer horror for me personally.
Without question one of the best horror series ever.Some I saw on the big screen,some on dvd and vhs,but all fun.There will never be another Hammer Films,or Lee and Cushing.
Peter Cushing was a true gentleman. Grew up watching him and Christopher Lee in many Hammer Horror movies. Gosh! They starred in so many. And also Peter Cushing also appeared as Dr Who too fighting the Daleks in the movie version! Great stuff! Part of my childhood xxx
"You looked frightened. Who did you see" Little girl answers "Aunt Lucy!!!" And the scary music plays loudly in the background!!! Hammer really knows how to scare people!!!!
I love these reviews. Thank you for them! One moment that springs to mind is in Taste the Blood of Dracula, where Alice (Linda Hayden) takes a spade to her father, William Hargood (Geoffrey Keen). In that moment, under Dracula's influence, she turned from a sweet and frightened girl into a murderer. However, I think it was more than that, Dracula just managed to tap in to something that was already there. Her father was abusive, controlling and terrifying to her, but Dracula managed to tap into her own shadow and unconscious deep desire to take revenge for all that she experienced at her father's hand.
I smiled at your number one pick. In the script, Cushing was supposed to run up to the curtan and rip it open. It was Cushing's idea to run across the table and dive for the curtain. The bit with the crossed candlesticks was also Cushing's idea. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah, he had an issue with all the crucifixes Van Helsing had on him, said it made him look like a salesman. That's why he opted for the candlesticks, which was ABSOLUTELY the right call.
@@AmericanActionReport Yeah, first Sherlock Holmes in color (total accident but notable) and first onscreen version to show much of an irritated jerk he could be, which got him grief for not being Basil Rathbone. I wish he made more than just Hound of The Baskervilles as Holmes.
Van helsing's destruction of Dracula in the 1958 film is one of the greatest villain deaths in all of cinema. The first time I saw it I thought, yes, take that you evil git!
As a child I lived in Whitby Yorkshire England where St Hilda's Abbey stood on a huge cliff. This was where Dracula supposedly landed. These movies terrified me and I still love them today.
I love Hammer films...Shot at Bray Studios...I think they shot some of them at Shepperton Studios, and perhaps Pinewood Studios as well...I will look that up...I always loved the set designs in the films...The wardrobe, and all the attention to small details...The cinematography was always so colorful , and handsomely shot...Well made films in the horror, and suspense genres with excellent acting...Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee are two of the greatest British actors of all time in my opinion...
Love Hammer Horror Films Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee the best duo ever 👍🏽💯👍🏽what about when Peter Cushing jumped on the windmill in the Brides of Dracula,
It also has a much tighter story and more rapid rhythm than the usual adaptations of the source material. Peter Cushing changed the image of Van Helsing forever with his energetic athletics.
In remember watching these as a kid in the early 70s . 10.30 they come on the TV. I loved these Hammer films. They were the high light of Friday night.School was over till Monday and the week end was here. Its was not just the Dracula films from Hammer all of those Hammer films were great on TV. Peter Cushing was a great actor he could make the most unbelievable story seem real. That last seen Ive always thought was one of the best endings of all. Does anyone remember that when the film finished it would be the end of the night and they would always tell you to sleep well and remember to pull all the plugs? Night Night lol.
I think Christopher Lee would have been fascinating to have a conversation with. His background in Special Forces and in acting I believe would give him an endless number of stories to share.
Excellent job putting this video together. It's hard to imagine these films I used to watch as a kid in the 1970's (and largely having nightmares from them) are still around and very much heralded as classics of horror cinema.
The climactic battle of Horror of Dracula shows that an old one like Dracula does not necessarily have to sleep during the day, as long as he stays out of the sunlight.
Great video work and humor. Over the past 2-3 years there are some really well produced video reviews on Hammer. I was always a great Lee fan. He never got the recognition he really deserved until he was in his later years.
The Latin word "et" is used for many meanings besides "and." In the case of "Dracula's motto," it is translated as "Faithful unto death." It was a popular motto used by many titled families in England and elsewhere.
Hammer films was and is one bests film makers in this world, especially gothic pearls, i don't know really about masterpieces but pearls anyway, these are those cult classics!
I loved hammer horror movies Dracula ones were my favourite Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were great Peter Cushing was such a gentleman wish they would show them again used to show a Hammer double bill on Saturday nights oh how I miss them made my weekend I was about 11 my best friend stayed over and a cousin stayed in my sisters room but all 4 of us watched these movies together in my room. Great times great memories 🥰
Only Hammer could bring back Cushing without Lee and Lee without Cushing and make it work. In Brides of Dracula and Dracula-Prince of Darkness they did just that. Thank you David Peel a d Andrew Keir.
Between Synapse Films, Arrow Video and Scream Factory ---- I've spent *so much* money on Hammer Films in the month of October. I'm talking *hundreds* ---- nearly thousands ----on films I already owned. Oh, the update to bluray/4k is a true dedication. I've been collecting these films since I was 9 or 10. I'm 39 now. I've owned them all in 5-6 different formats. I get excited when I see one released on a format that they've never been on. The wife? Not so much (only because of the money). But, she enjoys watching them with me. I'm just a sucker for these films (and one's like them). At any rate, thanks for the *superb* upload. You just "get" Hammer and nail them in every video that you do. I wish I could like it more than once.
Great channel & great review as always. I a big fan of Hammer movies 🎥 in general.... I grew up watching them and they’re a main reason my I love horror films. Cushing & Lee are two giants of the genre.
The BBC (I believe) did a Sherlock series in the 60s. Some have been put up on RUclips. Production and picture quality is poor, but Peter Cushing's performance is right up there.
@@hcu4359 As far as I'm aware, there's "Study in Scarlet", "Boscombe Valley Mystery", "Blue Carbuncle.", "Sign of four" and a two part "Hound of the Baskervilles" The rest are lost sadly, unless you know more.
Another wonderful special - this manages to re-enchant the magic of the franchise even for the 'lesser' films - in particular I really want to revisit AD and Satanic Rites
The Dracula Hammer Films are what started my love of horror films as a young child! Brings back fond memories of going to a drive in with my parents putting a blanket for us to sit on in front of the car & eating popcorn. As a youngster I always watched the credits as well & if I saw the words 'Produced By', I knew the movie is not real. If for some reason I did not see the words...I thought...'Oh No'!'
Handsome, bland, heroes. Well, when the villain is the proactive, charismatic, aristocratically handsome, Christopher Lee, what else can many of them be except reactive and pretty? Peter Cushing held his own by being that good.
Yep. No time for a handsome and young, but bland guy to be the hero when you have Mr. Cushing leading the charge. Having a young man as the hero worked in Risen From the Grave, but in the following two films, they fell pretty flat there.
@@connorbrennan4233 it worked there because that Paul had an arc, of an atheist forced to find faith when faced with forces rationality cannot explain.
A really superb look at some of the best moments in the franchise. Mina is my favorite of Dracula's lovers; a mature woman who knows what she wants, even if it's morally wrong; she would have made a great Bride.
Couldn't leave him out - he was such a big part of Hammer. I recently watched The Mummy's Shroud for the first time, in which he plays such a different character to any of these.
@@robinbailes5236 I was lucky as a child,i got to see my uncle working,at Elstree and Shepperton,i grew up surrounded by famous actors/actresses of the time,none of them blood kin,i was very lucky to have one as a godparent,Ralph Bates,he was such a wonderful person,when i was home on leave,we met up in london,he was doing the comedy show,Dear John at the time,i was so sad when he passed away.
Thank you so much for this. I wasn’t expecting it and it was the perfect way to end my Halloween 🎃 👻. I hope everyone had a happy one, I can’t think of better company to spend it in than Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Also, one of my favorite little touches you didn’t mention is in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, it’s a bit Lee hated but him pulling the stake out of his heart after Barry Andrews can’t say a prayer to seal the deal really provides a great “oh shit!” moment. And how bad ass is it when he throws the stake back at him? Thanks again.
Way back in the Golden Era of Horror films, if you wanted to be assured of a great horror film all you had to know that it was either a Hammer Film or a Seven Arts Hammer Film. One other dead (no pun intended) give away was if it starred the two greatest Shakespearean/horror actors who ever graced the stage and screen. Yes, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing!
Thanks for watching, be sure to check out our Hammer Dracula retrospective part 1 ruclips.net/video/KCX1j5YZkls/видео.html and part 2 ruclips.net/video/s1KScQ67XnY/видео.html
This is excellent!
Love your channel.
Peter Cushing was a terriblely underrated actor. He was completely believable in every roll he ever played. He was brilliant.
Underated? Cushing is probably the Best actor, I mean he's literally immortalized now within the Star Wars Franchise because of his great performance as Tarkin.
Not underrated. More like highly-respected. He lifted anything he was in, even when it was rubbish.
Close friends in real life, Lee visited Cushing as Cushing was dying of cancer. To make the best of things, they howled with laughter while watching Daffy Duck cartoons. That's real friendship.
MARV....Thanks for sharing that cool story. Both awesome actors in the Dracula Hammer series !
@Matthew Caughey Gifted as they were, I totally agree.
And the public part of that final meeting is on RUclips, courtesy of Ted Newsom, who orchestrated the narration for Flesh & Blood, and the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society UK. ruclips.net/video/7T2WrnFzepw/видео.html
I learbed that my penness us just a little bit bigger than yours
I went to an evening of hammer Dracula films being shown on the big screen at the Barbican.
Halfway through Christopher Lee was introduced onto stage and gave a tearful tribute to the recently departed Cushing. Clearly loved the man dearly
"Props" was Peter Cushing's nickname, because he loved inventing bits of business. He claimed that the climactic scene in Horror of Dracula was his idea : "I said why not do a bit of a Douglas Fairbanks ? Suppose I run along the table and leap for the curtains; they fall down and the sunlight pours in ..."
Cushing and Lee - the greatest horror pairing ever.
Agreed but my favorite film featuring their pairing off HAS to be the Hammer version of Hound of the Baskervilles, which was more gothic than horror.
Before them though was Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
YES CARL THE BEST, FOREVER
Carl B the heaving cleavage wenches are also worth mentioning - horror was never as appealing since hammer.
Damn right, greatest pair of all time.
Just seeing that scene of Cushing tearing across that table, launching himself at the curtains was what got me into horror films. I grew up with these films. Thank you 😊
I must agree...the finale of 1958's "Horror of Dracula" offers one of the greatest film climaxes in cinema history. Still holds up even by today's standards.
So true. No one has ever beat that scene..
So many iconic moments by Christopher Lee outweighs the dodgy moments. Lee and Cushing wonderful together in all their parts together.
and at age 90 Chris Lee becomes a member of a heavy metal band ... Long life Dracula
I REALLY miss those Hammer Studios horror movies.
I NEVER missed seeing one when it was released.
Cushing and Lee were such a great team.
Dead on with Peter Cushing. I would absolutely trust his Van Helsing because not only is he intellectual formidable but also insanely comforting. When he and Michael Gough saved that child from Lucy, I love how he placed priority on comforting the child. It was so warm and unexpected.
Yeah, that interaction with the little girl after what HAS to be a scary moment for the latter is so sweet.
I remember at around 7 years old I saw Bela Lugosi's Dracula with my sister on a late show one Friday night. The next movie I saw was the Gorgon with Lee and Cushing. Man, at that age the introduction music was so scary I had to turn the TV off after 2 minutes worrying the serpent would jump out of the screen. That music was dark and threatening. Lee was the Prince of Draculas no doubt about it. Hammer, along with Amicus and Trigon movies were pure quality. A goldmine of movies from late 1950s to early 1970s. Lee, the Prince of Draculas, and Cushing the ultimate cold ruthless Baron Frankenstein.....two mega legends of genius. But actually there was a third legend.... the third being Vincent Price....in the brilliant Dr Phibes series & Theatre of Blood. A great era of cinema when there were no computers to do the fancy CG effects you see today. Golden memories indeed.
What an excellent insight into the Hammer Horror franchise. I really enjoyed this look into the greatness of Lee and Cushing! Pure Magic!
Your #1 pick with the ending of Dracula (1958) was 100% spot-on! Perhaps the best ending in horror film history and the scene that defines Hammer horror for me personally.
It's that score by James Bernard. It's Wagner pushed beyond the breaking point.
The Trinity: Lee, Cushing, and Price.
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May 26, 27, and 27 birthdays. Crazy.
Without question one of the best horror series ever.Some I saw on the big screen,some on dvd and vhs,but all fun.There will never be another Hammer Films,or Lee and Cushing.
Any scene that includes Caroline Munro is great!
She was easily the best part of Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.
Slave2PaperWithInkOn This is what they did after leaving Doctor Who.
Epitome of feminine beauty.
Peter Cushing was a true gentleman. Grew up watching him and Christopher Lee in many Hammer Horror movies. Gosh! They starred in so many. And also Peter Cushing also appeared as Dr Who too fighting the Daleks in the movie version! Great stuff! Part of my childhood xxx
Best scene that you missed: In "Brides of Dracula", Van Helsing throws holy water into the face of Baron Meinster.
these films terrified my childhood and gave me nightmares for years ;;; thanks for that Hammer, Cushing and Lee
"You looked frightened. Who did you see" Little girl answers "Aunt Lucy!!!" And the scary music plays loudly in the background!!! Hammer really knows how to scare people!!!!
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Growing up in the 70's, j LOVED these films....
I love these reviews. Thank you for them! One moment that springs to mind is in Taste the Blood of Dracula, where Alice (Linda Hayden) takes a spade to her father, William Hargood (Geoffrey Keen). In that moment, under Dracula's influence, she turned from a sweet and frightened girl into a murderer. However, I think it was more than that, Dracula just managed to tap in to something that was already there. Her father was abusive, controlling and terrifying to her, but Dracula managed to tap into her own shadow and unconscious deep desire to take revenge for all that she experienced at her father's hand.
I smiled at your number one pick. In the script, Cushing was supposed to run up to the curtan and rip it open. It was Cushing's idea to run across the table and dive for the curtain. The bit with the crossed candlesticks was also Cushing's idea. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah, he had an issue with all the crucifixes Van Helsing had on him, said it made him look like a salesman. That's why he opted for the candlesticks, which was ABSOLUTELY the right call.
@@johnathonhaney8291 Thanks for further insight on my favorite Van Helsing/Peter Cushing scene. He was also my favorite Sherlock Holmes.
@@AmericanActionReport Yeah, first Sherlock Holmes in color (total accident but notable) and first onscreen version to show much of an irritated jerk he could be, which got him grief for not being Basil Rathbone. I wish he made more than just Hound of The Baskervilles as Holmes.
The final scene of the first movie is still my all time favorite. I've watch that scene over and over again
These Hammer movies seem to gain more fans every year thanks to attention like your video. Nice work.
I’m glad I’ve collected all the Christopher Lee Draculas on Blu . I even have the one directed by Franco
Excellent video perfect for Halloween thanks!There will never be another Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee!
Definitely !
Lee's career never amounted to much before Dracula. Only then did the world discover just how good an actor he was.
Van helsing's destruction of Dracula in the 1958 film is one of the greatest villain deaths in all of cinema. The first time I saw it I thought, yes, take that you evil git!
As a child I lived in Whitby Yorkshire England where St Hilda's Abbey stood on a huge cliff. This was where Dracula supposedly landed. These movies terrified me and I still love them today.
Best Halloween gift I've ever had.
Lugosi died in '56 and Lee stars as Drac in '58. You can go down for the count, but you just can't keep the Count down!
Loved that romp through a classic series of film! Made my night
Another excellent Hammer video. But then, anything with Cushing & Lee in it is always worth watching.
James Bernard's 1958 score has some of the most powerful writing for strings and brass this side of Wagner.
I love Hammer films...Shot at Bray Studios...I think they shot some of them at Shepperton Studios, and perhaps Pinewood Studios as well...I will look that up...I always loved the set designs in the films...The wardrobe, and all the attention to small details...The cinematography was always so colorful , and handsomely shot...Well made films in the horror, and suspense genres with excellent acting...Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee are two of the greatest British actors of all time in my opinion...
Love Hammer Horror Films Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee the best duo ever 👍🏽💯👍🏽what about when Peter Cushing jumped on the windmill in the Brides of Dracula,
We mention that our 2 part dracula retrospective.always amazed by Cushing's athleticism
Peter Cushing was excellent in these Hammer movies.
Loved watching this!
I love Dracula 1958. The ending is classy and classic.
It also has a much tighter story and more rapid rhythm than the usual adaptations of the source material. Peter Cushing changed the image of Van Helsing forever with his energetic athletics.
@@johnathonhaney8291 No movie has ever topped this ending scene in any film of Dracula or vampires. Over 60 years ago and no one can ever replace it.
In remember watching these as a kid in the early 70s . 10.30 they come on the TV. I loved these Hammer films. They were the high light of Friday night.School was over till Monday and the week end was here. Its was not just the Dracula films from Hammer all of those Hammer films were great on TV. Peter Cushing was a great actor he could make the most unbelievable story seem real. That last seen Ive always thought was one of the best endings of all.
Does anyone remember that when the film finished it would be the end of the night and they would always tell you to sleep well and remember to pull all the plugs? Night Night lol.
I think Christopher Lee would have been fascinating to have a conversation with. His background in Special Forces and in acting I believe would give him an endless number of stories to share.
Great video. Been a Dracula fan for many years. Thanks
The narrator of this video has a real love of these films that is totally irresistible!
Excellent video, thank you. Absolutely love the hammer horror films. The pairing of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing is timeless.
Excellent job putting this video together. It's hard to imagine these films I used to watch as a kid in the 1970's (and largely having nightmares from them) are still around and very much heralded as classics of horror cinema.
Let's not forget the fantastically dramatic music of James Bernard!
Awesome! Can't go wrong with Cushing and Lee!❤👍
The climactic battle of Horror of Dracula shows that an old one like Dracula does not necessarily have to sleep during the day, as long as he stays out of the sunlight.
This is The #1 in the List of "Top 10 Moments" Videos. Excellent.
As always, a highly entertaining piece full of juicy tidbits about the magic within Hammer films - Love your enthusiastic narration too - thank you.
Hammer vampiresses are the best. As the doctor said in Young Frankenstein, what huge knockers!
Excellent video, Hammer should include this in their box set.
Would be great if they just let us run amok in their archive and put together more videos like this.
The actor who played Dracula's servant, Patrick Troughton, also played the creepy priest in "The Omen".
As well as an early Dr. Who!
and was also in the BBC children's drama The Box of Delights.
Great video work and humor. Over the past 2-3 years there are some really well produced video reviews on Hammer. I was always a great Lee fan. He never got the recognition he really deserved until he was in his later years.
This was a lovely video. Great retrospective on a wonderful film franchise.
Cant believe I'm only coming across these now this and the frankenstein videos are top notch
The Brides of Dracula (1960) is my favorite vampire movie from Hammer, ironic since Christopher Lee is not cast in it.
The Latin word "et" is used for many meanings besides "and." In the case of "Dracula's motto," it is translated as "Faithful unto death." It was a popular motto used by many titled families in England and elsewhere.
Brilliant video about brilliant movies
Hammer films was and is one bests film makers in this world, especially gothic pearls, i don't know really about masterpieces but pearls anyway, these are those cult classics!
Peter cushing and christopher lee were phenomenal dual loved the dracula van helsing rivalry awesome hammer movies
I loved hammer horror movies Dracula ones were my favourite Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were great Peter Cushing was such a gentleman wish they would show them again used to show a Hammer double bill on Saturday nights oh how I miss them made my weekend I was about 11 my best friend stayed over and a cousin stayed in my sisters room but all 4 of us watched these movies together in my room. Great times great memories 🥰
Horror of Dracula and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave are my favorites. 🥀
Only Hammer could bring back Cushing without Lee and Lee without Cushing and make it work. In Brides of Dracula and Dracula-Prince of Darkness they did just that. Thank you David Peel a d Andrew Keir.
Between Synapse Films, Arrow Video and Scream Factory ---- I've spent *so much* money on Hammer Films in the month of October. I'm talking *hundreds* ---- nearly thousands ----on films I already owned. Oh, the update to bluray/4k is a true dedication. I've been collecting these films since I was 9 or 10. I'm 39 now. I've owned them all in 5-6 different formats. I get excited when I see one released on a format that they've never been on. The wife? Not so much (only because of the money). But, she enjoys watching them with me. I'm just a sucker for these films (and one's like them).
At any rate, thanks for the *superb* upload. You just "get" Hammer and nail them in every video that you do. I wish I could like it more than once.
Great channel & great review as always. I a big fan of Hammer movies 🎥 in general.... I grew up watching them and they’re a main reason my I love horror films. Cushing & Lee are two giants of the genre.
They sure are !
Watch Cushing and Lee in the Hammer "Hound of the Baskervilles," which is my favorite of all the versions I've seen. It's really good.
I love that one too!
The BBC (I believe) did a Sherlock series in the 60s. Some have been put up on RUclips.
Production and picture quality is poor, but Peter Cushing's performance is right up there.
@@ploppysonofploppy6066 Been watching those recently. He is awesome in those.
@@hcu4359 As far as I'm aware, there's "Study in Scarlet", "Boscombe Valley Mystery", "Blue Carbuncle.", "Sign of four" and a two part "Hound of the Baskervilles" The rest are lost sadly, unless you know more.
@@ploppysonofploppy6066 no, don't know of any more, sadly.
Hammer vampiresses were the best. Always huge knockers.
Very interesting collection of videos you have. I'm going to enjoy watching them all. Glad i found you👍😃👍
Peter Cushing was one of the greatest of all time.
Another wonderful special - this manages to re-enchant the magic of the franchise even for the 'lesser' films - in particular I really want to revisit AD and Satanic Rites
Very well done. makes me want to see them all now.
The Dracula Hammer Films are what started my love of horror films as a young child! Brings back fond memories of going to a drive in with my parents putting a blanket for us to sit on in front of the car & eating popcorn. As a youngster I always watched the credits as well & if I saw the words 'Produced By', I knew the movie is not real. If for some reason I did not see the words...I thought...'Oh No'!'
An excellent and scholarly overview of Hammer's Dracula franchise. Well done!
Handsome, bland, heroes. Well, when the villain is the proactive, charismatic, aristocratically handsome, Christopher Lee, what else can many of them be except reactive and pretty? Peter Cushing held his own by being that good.
Perfect, on-point analysis. Of both men! 👍
Hammer farmed the Reperotory system to get some of the greatest actors the UK had seen IMO :)
Yep. No time for a handsome and young, but bland guy to be the hero when you have Mr. Cushing leading the charge. Having a young man as the hero worked in Risen From the Grave, but in the following two films, they fell pretty flat there.
@@connorbrennan4233 it worked there because that Paul had an arc, of an atheist forced to find faith when faced with forces rationality cannot explain.
I love the Dracula music too! Those two devilish and evil sounding orchestral chords whenever Dracula shows up? Brilliant!
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, is my favorite Hammer vampire flick - - and it is the sexiest of them all
AND it's the only entry in the series to be given a G rating...seriously, look it up.
Well, I'll give sexiest to The Vampire Lovers.
THIS VIDEO IS PHENOMENAL
Dark Corners Reviews' content is so well done. Salute.
A really superb look at some of the best moments in the franchise. Mina is my favorite of Dracula's lovers; a mature woman who knows what she wants, even if it's morally wrong; she would have made a great Bride.
Thankyou for including my uncle,Michael Ripper,he was very much a big part of the Hammer franchise
Couldn't leave him out - he was such a big part of Hammer. I recently watched The Mummy's Shroud for the first time, in which he plays such a different character to any of these.
@@robinbailes5236 I was lucky as a child,i got to see my uncle working,at Elstree and Shepperton,i grew up surrounded by famous actors/actresses of the time,none of them blood kin,i was very lucky to have one as a godparent,Ralph Bates,he was such a wonderful person,when i was home on leave,we met up in london,he was doing the comedy show,Dear John at the time,i was so sad when he passed away.
When these movies made it to local TV when I was kid . You talk about the nightmares .
I like both actress Lee and Peter crushing both are good actress brilliant
Thank you so much for this. I wasn’t expecting it and it was the perfect way to end my Halloween 🎃 👻. I hope everyone had a happy one, I can’t think of better company to spend it in than Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
Also, one of my favorite little touches you didn’t mention is in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, it’s a bit Lee hated but him pulling the stake out of his heart after Barry Andrews can’t say a prayer to seal the deal really provides a great “oh shit!” moment. And how bad ass is it when he throws the stake back at him? Thanks again.
This is a video I'll keep coming back to when I've got 20 minutes to kill. Bloody marvelous!
Ah so it's not just me.
The ending of Horror of Dracula is my favorite Hammer movie.
Great, many thanks.
Love all the Hammer flicks
I come for the bite sized movie reviews, but I stay for videos like this.
Classic stuff much loved movies
I loved Carol Marsh when she played the role of Rose in the movie Brighton Rock. She was so sweet. Richard Attenborough played the villain, Pinky.
Excellent analysis, research & authentic "geek speak"...(I've shared vid w/my Hammer mentor ;) Anyway keep up the AWESOME work guys!!
Grato! Piter Couche e Christoph Lee ! Dois feras do cinema clássico terror!
Hurrah for putting Michael Ripper on the list!
I used to watch the Hammer films on a Saturday night back in the l970s I have most of them now on DVD and blue ray.
Way back in the Golden Era of Horror films, if you wanted to be assured of a great horror film all you had to know that it was either a Hammer Film or a Seven Arts Hammer Film. One other dead (no pun intended) give away was if it starred the two greatest Shakespearean/horror actors who ever graced the stage and screen. Yes, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing!
This was awesome! Thank you so much! And, a keeper!
Awesome. Love these Hammer vampire films. With all due respect to Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee was (is) DRACULA!
CAROL MASH A. K. A. LUCY REALLY SCARED ME WHEN I FIRST SAW THE MOVE 👀😳