Hammer began putting their own stamp on the classic Universal Monsters with The Curse of Frankenstein back in 1957, which was quickly followed by Horror of Dracula in 1958. It was the first of many films to star Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, and NECA has announced this week that they’ve turned that version of […]
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By the middle of the 1950s, gothic horror was dead. Modern-set films dealing with nuclear war, radioactive fallout, and the Red Scare filled American theaters with giant bugs and body snatchers. England’s Hammer Studios was no different, releasing successful films like The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and X the Unknown (1956), which were firmly rooted in […]
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Some people seem to fit multiple lifetimes’ worth of experience into one. Christopher Lee was one of these. Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was born 100 years ago on May 27, 1922 to Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Lee and the Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini Lee. The actor who would later become world famous for playing Dracula joked […]
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