Horror Trailer: The Woman In Black — Angel of Death

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Lisa Marie Bowman

She’s back!

You can read my thoughts on the first Woman In Black here.

Horror On The Lens: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (dir by Roy Ward Baker)

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s horror movie is from Hammer films and, needless to say, it’s lot of fun. In The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, an ennui-stricken Count Dracula (James Forbes-Robertson) leaves his castle and travels all the way to China. Once in China, he resurrects the legendary 7 golden vampires and uses them to raid a nearby village. One villager (played by David Chiang) goes to the legendary Prof. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing, of course) for help. Van Helsing, along with his son (Robin Stewart) and a wealthy widow (Julie Ege, who decorated several Hammer films), goes to the village to battle the vampires. Providing protecting for Van Helsing’s group is Chiang’s sister (Szu Shih) and six other brothers.

First released in 1974, The Legend of the 7 Vampires was Hammer’s attempt to revive the failing fortunes of their most iconic monster by collaborating with Hong Kong film producer Sir Run Run Shaw. The result is an entertaining hybrid of a traditional Hammer vampire film and a Hong Kong kung fu movie. While James Forbes-Robertson makes for a poor replacement for Christopher Lee, Cushing is perfect as always.

Trailers for Halloween, Part 2

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Lisa Marie Bowman

For the second part of my three-part Halloween edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Trailers, I’ve chosen six trailers from the legendary library of Hammer films. Enjoy!

1) Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

The Hammer Mummy films never get as much respect as the old Hammer Dracula and Frankenstein films. This is mostly because the Mummy films tend to drag and the Mummy never quite had the charisma of a Christopher Lee or a Peter Cushing. Still, mummies are pretty freaky. I’d probably be more scared of them if I lived in an area with a larger concentration of archeological digs.