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HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR
I hear that a company from the netherlands has bought over "Hammer house of horror movies" well here's the story,I wonder can they match the old 70's cult movies?
"Hammer Films has begun shooting in Donegal Ireland on its first production in almost 30 years - a horror thriller entitled The Wake Wood.
The film - about a couple who try to resurrect their dead daughter - stars Timothy Spall and Aidan Gillen.
It is the first feature from the cult British company since it was bought last year by a Dutch consortium.
Hammer became synonymous with the horror genre in the 1950s thanks to films like Dracula and The Mummy.
Other famous Hammer films include The Curse of Frankenstein and The Curse of the Werewolf. Commemorative
Hammer's last feature production was The Lady Vanishes in 1979, a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic starring Elliott Gould and Cybill Shepherd.
Its last horror title, To the Devil a Daughter starring Christopher Lee, came out three years earlier.
Backed by the Irish Film Board, The Wake Wood is tentatively scheduled for a UK release in autumn 2009.
Earlier this year, the Royal Mail released a series of commemorative postage stamps celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hammer's first Dracula film. "
DURING THE 70'S I WAS INFLICTED WITH A SEVERE DOSE OF OLD BRITISH HORROR MOVIES. Every movie had a professional female squeeling cleavage bearing early Penthouse Mag lookalike!
That would be Sir john Mills daughter Sarah!
Christopher Lee was awesome!they actually made a british postage stamp of him as Dracula!
Then of course we had a couple of classic "Edgar Allen Poe" movies starring Vincent Price" he of the Wacko Jacko Thriller voice over fame"
The Pit and The Pendulum aghhhhhh! and "The Mask of The Red Death"
I suppose the ultimate british horror cult movie is "The WickerMan" starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee!
I'm not a fan of modern day horror movies like Freddie Kruger etc..I'm not into gratuitous violence for the sake of it,however these old(almost B) movies kept you on the edge of the seat with a mixture of tension,buxom women squeeling and really well played central characters without the need to show too much blood and gore! ..ohh well it's not far to Halloween and the Druids are building a "Wickerman" 
