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Cushing Curiosities: Severin Announces 6-Disc Peter Cushing Set Loaded with Movies and Teleplays

August 16, 2023 John Squires Home Video, Movies, Peter Cushing, Severin Films

Severin Films is celebrating the late Peter Cushing with an unprecedented box set highlighting the most unexpected gems from the filmography of the legendary horror actor. CUSHING CURIOSITIES, releasing August 29, presents 6-discs of rarely seen feature films and television broadcasts restored and scanned from original vault sources, plus a curated plethora of Special Features […]

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Dear Fellow: Remembering Peter Cushing on the Late Horror Legend’s 110th Birthday

May 26, 2023 Brian Keiper Editorials, featured, Peter Cushing, topnews

Considering his future fame playing a certain Baron, it is an amusing coincidence that Peter Cushing’s very first job in the movies was under the direction of James Whale, director of the classic 1931 Frankenstein, as a double for star Louis Hayward in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). Hayward played twins in the […]

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Dracula Reborn: How Hammer’s ‘Horror of Dracula’ Redefined Vampires

April 27, 2023 Brian Keiper Christopher Lee, Editorials, Gods and Monsters, Hammer Horror, Horror Of Dracula, Movies, Peter Cushing

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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How ‘Night Creatures’ Became One of Hammer’s Most Entertaining Movies [Hammer Factory]

July 14, 2022 Paul Farrell Editorials, Hammer Factory, Hammer Horror, Movies, Night Creatures, Peter Cushing

Welcome to the Hammer Factory. This month we dissect Night Creatures (1962). While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the public eye, […]

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Resurrection: ‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ and the Rebirth of Gothic Horror

May 19, 2022 Brian Keiper Christopher Lee, Editorials, featured, Gods and Monsters, Hammer Horror, Movies, Peter Cushing, The Curse of Frankenstein, topnews

It seems that every decade or so the horror genre is declared dead only for a groundbreaking film to come along and resurrect it. In the late 1950s, that film was The Curse of Frankenstein. The “death” of horror is always hyperbole, often merely declaring the end of a particular trend within the genre, but […]

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‘The Evil of Frankenstein’ is a Fascinating Oddity in Hammer’s Frankenstein Series [Hammer Factory]

April 27, 2022 Paul Farrell Editorials, Hammer Factory, Hammer Horror, Movies, Peter Cushing, scream factory, The Evil of Frankenstein

Welcome to the Hammer Factory. This month we dissect The Evil of Frankenstein (1964). While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the public eye, resurrecting […]

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Robert Eggers on the Horror Movies That Spoke to Him Growing Up [Interview]

April 21, 2022 John Squires Boo Crew Podcast, Movies, Peter Cushing, Robert Eggers, The Northman, The Witch

Robert Eggers is back this weekend with brand new Viking epic The Northman (read our review), a bloody tale of revenge armed with what Eggers refers to in the latest issue of Fangoria Magazine (#15) as “horror beats.” Eggers, of course, got his start with The Witch, a true horror movie that helped usher in […]

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‘The Brides of Dracula’ is a True Masterwork of the Macabre [Hammer Factory]

October 19, 2021 Paul Farrell Editorials, Hammer Factory, Hammer Horror, Movies, Peter Cushing, scream factory, The Brides of Dracula

While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the public eye, resurrecting the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy in vivid […]

Standing in the Shadows of Hammer: Amicus and ‘The House That Dripped Blood’ [Gods and Monsters]

September 30, 2021 Brian Keiper Amicus Productions, Christopher Lee, Editorials, Gods and Monsters, Ingrid Pitt, Movies, Peter Cushing, Robert Bloch, The House That Dripped Blood

In Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Pretorius, played by the inimitable Ernest Thesiger, raises his glass and proposes a toast to Colin Clive’s Henry Frankenstein—“to a new world of Gods and Monsters.” I invite you to join me in exploring this world, focusing on horror films from the dawn of the Universal Monster movies in 1931 to the […]

‘Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb’ Was One of Hammer’s Last Great Monster Movies [Hammer Factory]

July 8, 2021 Paul Farrell Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, Editorials, Hammer Factory, Hammer Horror, Movies, Peter Cushing, scream factory