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Taste of Fear (1961)

Sometime in the early to mid-2000’s I was introduced to Scream of Fear – or, as it was titled in its native U.K., Taste of Fear (1961) – in a big-screen double feature with another Hammer chiller, The Revenge of … Continue reading

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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

One of the chief defining characteristics of Hammer’s initial run of Gothic horrors in the late 50’s and early 60’s is the resistance to produce traditional, straightforward, or even faithful updates to horror’s canon of literary and cinematic monsters. The … Continue reading

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To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

The swan song for Hammer horror (for a few decades, at least), To the Devil a Daughter (1976) is a belated attempt to present harder-edged genre material. Apart from perhaps the underrated psychological thriller Straight on Till Morning (1972), Daughter … Continue reading

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