The Best Of Hammer Boxset [DVD]

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The Gorgon' Comic-Strip Adaptation: Goodall, Goring & Coyas’ 1977 comic strip, originally published in House of Hammer magazine Commentary with writer/producer Phoef Sutton, writer/film historian Mark Jordan Legan, and screenwriter/film historian C. Courtney Joyner. Nightmare’ in the Making (2016, 28 mins): documentary with film historian Wayne Kinsey, featuring interviews with actor Jennie Linden, screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and art director Don Mingaye Hammer’s Women: Nadia Gray (2017): horror film expert Lindsay Anne Hallam looks at the fascinating life and work of the Romanian stage and screen actor

This sees Hammer legend Christopher Lee (Dr. Pierre Gerrard) in a supporting role. Lee has been quoted as saying "Taste of Fear was the best film that I was in that Hammer ever made... It had the best director, the best cast and the best story." Susan Strasberg (Penny Appleby) plays the lead. (Scream of Fear - US) The final film of this boxed set, Vampire Circus truly goes off the beaten path. The evil Count Mitterhaus (Robert Tayman) is defeated by the local villagers, cursing them and vowing to return one day. Years later, a traveling circus comes to the village, entrancing many of its patrons, especially its young children. Talented performers though they are, this circus turns out to be made up of a band of vampires who are the loyal disciples of Count Mitterhaus. Once the villagers and their children begin disappearing, it becomes clear that this circus is more than it seems and that the performers are attempting to resurrect the long dead Count Mitterhaus. Hammer’s Women: Molly Arbuthnot and Rosemary Burrows (2021, 14 mins): overview of the prolific Hammer wardrobe mistresses by film historian Josephine Botting Shadow Play: Inside ‘The Shadow of the Cat’ (2014, 26 mins): documentary featuring Hammer historians Alan Barnes, Marcus Hearn, Denis Meikle, Jason Morell and Jonathan RigbyIn the Shadow of Shelley (2020, 25 mins): in-depth interview with the legendary horror actor Barbara Shelley

Madhouse: Inside Hammer’s ‘Nightmare’ (2016, 15 mins): Hammer historians Alan Barnes, John J Johnston, Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby revisit the production Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Making of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (2014, 31 mins): documentary presented by actor Edward de Souza, including interviews with film historian Richard Golen, sound recordist Alan Lavender, and de Souza himself

The BEHP Interview with Peter Graham Scott (2004, 201 mins): career-spanning filmed interview, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring Graham Scott in conversation with Darrol Blake and John Sealey Though known primarily for their Gothic horror features, Hammer Films’ released a number of high-quality dramas and psychological thrillers. Never Take Candy from a Stranger is a dark tale involving a young girl’s accusations of pedophilia involving a respected town elder. The story examines the lengths to which lawyers will go to discredit a child and protect the wealthy, no matter their guilt. The subject matter is uncomfortable and the ending is devastating, which lends this picture a haunting quality. The anti-war drama Yesterday’s Enemies spotlights the brutality of war through the actions of a depleted company of British soldiers in conflict with the Japanese army in a Burmese village and their struggle to maintain the moral high ground. This is a gripping tale full of tension and suspense. Taking a break from all of the doom and gloom, legendary director William Castle ( The Tingler) contributes a lighthearted haunted house movie, The Old Dark House, starring comedian Tom Poston ( Newhart). PLOT - The middle-aged American Simon Wells sails in his boat to Weymouth and stumbles with the twenty year-old Joan on the street. He believes that she is a prostitute but she is actually part of a scheme of a motorcycle gang to rob tourists. Simon is brutally beaten up by her brother King and his gang. The policemen find the wounded Simon and take him to a bar to recover, where he meets the military Bernard and his mistress Freya Neilson. On the next morning, Joan challenges King and meets Simon in his boat, and King and his gang hunts Simon down. Joan and Simon spend the night together in an isolated house and on the morning, they are located by the gang. They try to flee and stumble in a top-secret military facility managed by Bernard. They are helped by children and brought to their hideout in a cave. King falls in the sea while chasing the couple and is also helped by a boy and brought to the same place. Soon Joan finds that the children are cold as if they were dead. What is the secret of the children and the military staff?