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Empire Down: Dracula: Prince of Darkness
The formula of young people coming to a haunted house with varying degrees of enthusiasm is a standard trope of horror, often associated with The Haunting, slasher films, or, god help us, The Cabin in the Woods. But it's not the sort of thing you expect to see in Hammer films, which, for all their g
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Empire Down: The Brides of Dracula/Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
The Brides of Dracula sees Hammer once again taking a page from Universal, in this case doing a Dracula sequel without the Count, focusing instead on female characters. Instead of hampering the movie, Dracula’s absence liberates Brides of Dracula, at least for a little while. In Brides of Dracula, D
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Empire Down: The Curse of Frankenstein/Dracula
For spooky season, here’s a miniseries of essays on Hammer Studio’s classic Gothic horror movies. Hammer’s movies live in the ruins of their source material and the Universal films — cheap post-war B-pictures produced with the conviction of masterpieces. And they’re pretty much bloody perfect. Hamme
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