In February 2019, I set out to watch all of the original Hammer horror movies. Last night I saw the very last one. I’m working on a piece exploring why these movies, with all their schlock and cheese, still hold such a dear spot in so many of our hearts, but I just can’t help but celebrate being done with this silly movie marathon.
From Hounds of the Baskervilles (1959)
It wasn’t easy. Not only did it take a whole lot of hours to watch them all, but several were very hard to find. Most came from Amazon and YouTube, but DailyMotion and some even less reputable sites were mined. More than once, our local hipster haven of a video store came through for me when I couldn’t find a title anywhere else.
(It’s probably no mistake that the most difficult ones to find turned out to be the most egregiously racist. Of course, if they tried to hide the sexist ones, very few would be left in circulation at all.)
Below is the Hammer horrors list that I followed, which I adapted only slightly from a list I found at iMDb, removing just a couple that weren’t actually horror but were adventure or sci fi instead.
How many have you seen?
Hammer Horror Films
(*Second titles are U.S. release titles)
- The Quatermass Xperiment / The Creeping Unknown* (1955)
- X the Unknown (1956)
- Quatermass 2 / Enemy from Space (1957)
- The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
- The Abominable Snowman / The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957)
- The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
- Dracula / Horror of Dracula (1958)
- The Mummy (1959)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
- The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
- The Brides of Dracula (1960)
- The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / House of Fright / Jekyll’s Inferno (1960)
- The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
- The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
- Captain Clegg / Night Creatures (1962)
- The Damned / These are the Damned (1962)
- The Kiss of the Vampire / Kiss of Evil (1963)
- Paranoiac (1963)
- The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
- The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964)
- The Gorgon (1964)
- Nightmare (1964)
- Fanatic / Die! Die! My Darling (1965)
- She (1965)
- Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
- The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
- The Reptile (1966)
- The Witches / The Devil’s Own (1966)
- Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
- The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)
- Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
- The Devil Rides Out / The Devil’s Bride (1968)
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
- The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
- Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
- Scars of Dracula (1970)
- Crescendo (1970)
- The Vampire Lovers (1970)
- Countess Dracula (1971)
- Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
- Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)
- Hands of the Ripper (1971)
- Lust for a Vampire (1971)
- Twins of Evil (1971)
- Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
- Demons of the Mind (1972)
- Straight on Till Morning (1972)
- Vampire Circus (1972)
- The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
- Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires / The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula (1974)
- Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1974)
- To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
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