Midnight Marquee Studio Series: HAMMER

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) Black & White on White paper, 274 pages
Midnight Marquee Press, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1936168248 ISBN-10: 1936168243
BISAC: Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism
With the re-emergence of Hammer and their new releases including Let Me In (2010), which received critical praise, and their forthcoming 2012 release of The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe already garnering interest, we wanted to take a look back at our old faves and wallow in fond memories —even as we anxiously await their new films.
So, for all those fans, who were vampire, Frankenstein and werewolf fans before it was cool, we offer a series of chapters on our favorite Hammer films. This book is not a complete listing of Hammer films—that’s been done. Nor is it a chronological listing of their cinematic output. Rather it comprises articles from Midnight Marquee as well as several new entries that we think Hammer fans will enjoy. Chapters include:
VAMPIRES
Hammer Films and the Resurrection of Dracula
Peter Cushing, Terence Fisher and
Hammer’s Vampire
Christopher Lee, Count Dracula and Hammer Films
Peter Cushing and Van Helsing
The Dracula Films with No Dracula!
Hammer’s Hunt For A New Vein of Vampire Film:
Three Semi-Classics from the 1970s
Why the 1970s Bite
Let Me In: The Return of Hammer
and the Spirit of Val Lewton

FRANKENSTEIN
Evolving Worlds of Hammer’s Baron Frankenstein

SCI-FI
X—The Unknown
Val Guest and Nigel Kneale: Hammer’s Dynamic Duo

FANTASY
Surviving the Lost Worlds of Hammer
The Hammer Factory: Hammer Films, Corman Style
The Abominable Snowman
The Curse of the Werewolf
The Devil Rides Out

MUMMIES
Christopher Lee Is The Mummy;
Peter Cushing Is Kharismatic
Hammer Films Unearth The Mummy

PSYCHOS
The Phantom of the Opera
Paranormic and Nightmare
To the Devil… a Daughter

WAR
Hammer Declares War
Night Creatures