Horror Poll: Hammer or Universal, which do you like best?

[treeduck]

Hammer horror films (1950's/1960's/1970's) vs Universal (1930's/1940's/1950's)

 

When Universal stopped making horror films after Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) another studio began production just a couple of years later in 1957...

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Edited March 1, 2020 by goose

[goose]

Though I did recently go on a Blood Island binge...

 

[blueschica]

Pittsburgh had a famous Saturday night horror movie show for a long time called Chiller Theater. :heart: It had a corny host (Count Floyd is supposed to be based on him) and showed great horror movies! We always watched them at slumber parties or I'd sit and watch them with my dad. It showed the Universal classics pretty often; I just love them.

 

I do love me some Christopher Lee though; for some reason we loved that Hammer film The Gorgon !

[treeduck]

Pittsburgh had a famous Saturday night horror movie show for a long time called Chiller Theater. :heart: It had a corny host (Count Floyd is supposed to be based on him) and showed great horror movies! We always watched them at slumber parties or I'd sit and watch them with my dad. It showed the Universal classics pretty often; I just love them.

 

I do love me some Christopher Lee though; for some reason we loved that Hammer film The Gorgon !

The Gorgon is great! Hammer have lots of gems like that one.

[goose]

We were big fans of the Japanese monster flicks as well. War of the Gargantuans took top honors there.

[treeduck]

We were big fans of the Japanese monster flicks as well. War of the Gargantuans took top honors there.

Zilla??

[treeduck]

King Kong was one of my favourite Universal ones too.

[treeduck]

This is a great Hammer flick:

 

[Fridge]

Both crap by today's standards...they're so cheesy I find them almost unwatchable.

[JohnnyBlaze]

This is a great Hammer flick:

 

 

Lee could’ve been Doc Strange in those days!

 

I noticed Richard Matheson was responsible for that flick. He did tons of stuff including the story for the classic Trek episode “The Enemy Within” ((the double Kirk transporter malfunction episode))

[goose]

We were big fans of the Japanese monster flicks as well. War of the Gargantuans took top honors there.

Zilla??

And Rodan, Gamera, Mothra, Hedorah.. We were also big fans of the Johnny Sokko Giant Robot series.

[treeduck]

This is a great Hammer flick:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTRWmqHEe7g

 

Lee could’ve been Doc Strange in those days!

 

I noticed Richard Matheson was responsible for that flick. He did tons of stuff including the story for the classic Trek episode “The Enemy Within” ((the double Kirk transporter malfunction episode))

Yeah he was a top writer.

[treeduck]

And yeah Lee would have made a great Doctor Strange in those days.

[treeduck]

Both crap by today's standards...they're so cheesy I find them almost unwatchable.

What horror flicks do you like then?

[goose]

Both crap by today's standards...they're so cheesy I find them almost unwatchable.

I find them charming and generally more interesting than newer, more graphic versions. The more serious fairy stories take themselves, the sillier they are, imo.

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[OldRUSHfan]

The first one my Dad took me to at the Movie house in Ypsilanti, The Martha Washington Theater, was "Frankenstein Created Woman",1967 staring Christopher Lee, Susan Denberg, and others...We went back home, and watched the Smothers Brothers Comedy hour on TV that night...We moved to our first house in Saline that next summer.

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Worth mentioning Hamner recently produced Let Me In which was a very pleasant surprise. It’s a rare American remake that’s on an equal great level of the foreign original.