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Post by claudius on Aug 9, 2021 22:06:10 GMT
I’ll branch this one out for the actors’ solo works with Fisher.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 9, 2021 22:07:01 GMT
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 9, 2021 22:09:31 GMT
The Curse of Frankenstein
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Post by Raimo47 on Aug 9, 2021 22:10:10 GMT
Dracula
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Aug 9, 2021 23:14:00 GMT
The Mummy
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Post by phantomparticle on Aug 10, 2021 0:07:59 GMT
Dracula, by a hair over The Curse of Frankenstein.
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Post by drystyx on Aug 10, 2021 0:15:54 GMT
Night of the Big Heat also known as "Island of the Burning Doomed" and "Island of the Burning Damned". I wonder what movie sets the record for most "titles"?
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Post by Prime etc. on Aug 10, 2021 0:27:27 GMT
Night of the Big Heat
"Well he can't come you selfish bitch, he's dead!"
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Aug 10, 2021 7:45:06 GMT
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Cushing makes the perfect Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by Salzmank on Aug 10, 2021 14:47:38 GMT
I haven’t seen Night of the Big Heat, but of the rest, The Gorgon. One of Lee’s best performances (he’s better than Cushing here), Barbara Shelley’s cute, and the film shows that Hammer could manage a Gothic mood when they wanted, the lack of which hurts [ Horror of] Dracula for me. Dracula set designer Bernard Robinson seems to have wanted not to mimic the ’31 film so much that he made Castle Dracula a bright, airy place. Compare ’31  and ’58:  That’s not my only criticism of the ’58—Fisher’s direction I find too dull, too slow, especially on rewatch, and the whole thing overlit—but it does hurt the flick for me. Fisher manages a more Gothic mood, in my opinion, in The Brides of Dracula, The Revenge of Frankenstein, and The Gorgon. (I think Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is his best Hammer as a film, though I don’t find it all that Gothic.) My favorite Fisher flick, by the way, is a non-Hammer, So Long at the Fair (1950), an imperfect but subtly eerie retelling of the “ Paris exposition” legend. |
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Post by Salzmank on Aug 10, 2021 15:10:36 GMT
The funny thing for me about the Hammer Hound is that I should love it: I like Peter Cushing, Sherlock Holmes, and even the movie’s opening Sir Roger Baskerville flashback. And it seems to be the one Hammer film liked by even non-Hammer fans.
But after that opening sequence the whole thing just falls apart for me; the picture looks so flat, and Fisher’s direction is so bland. I’m not even all that fond of Cushing’s performance here: Like William K. Everson, I find that Cushing’s Holmes lacks all the commandingness of his Van Helsing.
And who decided to cast Christopher Lee—at his stiffest—as Sir Henry opposite Cushing’s Holmes? The height difference makes Holmes look like a shrimp in all their scenes together. André Morell’s Watson, though, is excellent; I wish his performance were in a better movie.
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Post by Zos on Aug 10, 2021 16:09:10 GMT
I’ll branch this one out for the actors’ solo works with Fisher. "Devil Rides Out" then.
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