Recent Posts Tagged With 'hammer'

• French "Brides of Dracula" poster

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 12:35 in Dracula, Peter Cushing, posters, hammer

  (Click to view larger.) This is one of my favorite Hammer films, even though there is no Dracula or Lee in it. I put it on just the other night and watched it, as I do every October, and other times as well. As an aside, I have had a personal proje...

• "Christopher Lee: Dracula" article from 1974

  Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 14:46 in Dracula, Christopher Lee, vampires, Magazine Covers, hammer, 1974, magazine article, movie monsters mag

  (Click on images to enlarge.)From the first issue of Movie Monsters, published in December of 1974, comes an indepth look at Christopher Lee's Dracula films for Hammer. I was 16 when I bought this, and it figures in my good memories of the time as I ...

• 1974 article on "Taste The Blood of Dracula"

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 07:39 in Dracula, Christopher Lee, Magazine Covers, hammer, magazine article

  (Click on images to view large size.)Today's Monster Memory conjures up issue #7 of Marvel's "Dracula Lives!" magazine from July of 1974. I was a tender teen of merely 15 when I bought it, from a convenience store on the walk to school when I lived i...

• Horror of Dracula poster

  Posted on Friday June 12th, 2009 at 13:52 in Dracula, posters, artwork, hammer

  (Click on image to view in horror-scopic enormity!)Equal parts awesome and awful: the blood-drenched poster art for the best Dracula movie ever made by Hammer, or anyone else for that matter. Lee was born to play the Prince of Vampires, even if the p...

• Curse of the Werewolf article

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 12:34 in movies, articles, artwork, hammer, werewolves

  I've seen trailers that gave away the climax of the film, but a poster?Hammer's one and only werewolf movie does for the genre what their Dracula, Frankenstein and Mummy movies did; revitalized it with energy and more horror. A terrific score highlig...

• Part 2: Drac Has Risen...

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 08:34 in articles, Dracula, artwork, Magazine Covers, hammer

  My Monster Memories today are of:Issue #6 of the "Dracula Lives" magazine(Click on images to view full size.)I bought the above "Dracula Lives" magazine at a corner convenience store in Macon, GA on the way to school in 1974. I bought every issue of ...