New York's Quad Cinema got this summer off to a bloody good start with part 1 of their "Hammer's House of Horror" movie retrospective series featuring 32 films from the Hammer vault. On July 20th, the Quad Cinema team will continue the frights and fun with part 2 of their special Hammer horror screenings, and we've been provided with exclusive details on the second half of their retrospective series that's aptly titled "The Decadent Years."
From July 20th–August 2nd, Quad Cinema will screen a wide range of Hammer horror films from "The Decadent Years," including Dracula A.D. 1972, Countess Dracula, Twins of Evil, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, and many more! There will be 25 total titles shown (all of them from 1967–1976), with 20 of the films screened in glorious 35mm.
Below, we have the full list of titles screening as part of Hammer's House of Horror Part II, and to learn more about screening dates and times, visit Quad Cinema's official website!
"Hammer's House of Horror Part II: The Decadent Years 1967–1976
July 20 - August 2
The Quad bares it all with Part II of our extensive Hammer Films retrospective featuring 25 titles—20 on 35mm—from the studio's libidinous and gloriously gory go-go years
Highlights include: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde, Lust for a Vampire, Dracula A.D. 1972, Hands of the Ripper, and more!
Part two of our Hammer retrospective finds the studio reaching its zenith: by the late 1960s, modern cinema had caught up with its lurid envelope-pushing blood and guts, and so Hammer took advantage of loosening censorship to forge ahead into the realm of “erotic horror”: the sexual undertow that had hitherto been glimpsed in its films was now literally bared, titillating anew the generation that came of age during the Swinging Sixties. Other genres were explored, and sometimes cross-bred in experiments that recalled those in the studio’s durable Frankenstein series. The famous monsters that Hammer had successfully reanimated were updated and upgraded, while women were given more agency to dominate horror mythos—and to flout some taboos. But the studio’s “disreputable” and unarguably cut-price offerings were to be outflanked and outdone by films like The Exorcist, which signalled the mainstreaming of horror. Hammer unleashed one final salvo in 1976 before retreating into the crypt, emerging later only to tell television tales of terror. After long haunting and inspiring fans and filmmakers, Hammer has begun making movies again in this decade; there may yet be a full-blooded resurrection at hand. Until then, we present glories from the gory go-go years.
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
Seth Holt, 1971, UK, 94m, DCPCountess Dracula
Peter Sasdy, 1971, UK, 93m, 35mmCreatures the World Forgot
Don Chaffey, 1971, UK, 92m, 35mmCrescendo
Alan Gibson, 1970, UK, 83m, 35mmDr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
Roy Ward Baker, 1971, UK, 97m, DCPDracula A.D. 1972
Alan Gibson, 1972, UK, 96m, 35mmDracula Has Risen from the Grave
Freddie Francis, 1968, UK, 92m, 35mmFear in the Night
Jimmy Sangster, 1972, UK, 94m, 35mmFrankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Terence Fisher, 1974, UK, 99m, 35mm (original UK version)Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Terence Fisher, 1969, UK, 101m, 35mmHands of the Ripper
Peter Sasdy, 1971, UK, 85m, 35mmThe Horror of Frankenstein
Jimmy Sangster, 1970, UK, 95m, DCPThe Lost Continent
Michael Carreras, 1968, UK, 97m, 16mmLust for a Vampire
Jimmy Sangster, 1971, UK, 95m, 35mm (original UK version)Moon Zero Two
Roy Ward Baker, 1969, UK, 100m, 35mmThe Satanic Rites of Dracula (aka Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride)
Alan Gibson, 1973, UK, 87m, 35mmScars of Dracula
Roy Ward Baker, 1970, UK, 96m, DCPShatter (aka Call Him Mr. Shatter)
Michael Carreras, 1974, Hong Kong/UK, 90m, 35mmStraight on Till Morning
Peter Collinson, 1972, UK, 96m, 35mmTaste the Blood of Dracula
Peter Sasdy, 1970, UK, 95m, 35 mm (original UK version)To the Devil... A Daughter
Peter Sykes, 1976, UK/West Germany, 95m, DCPTwins of Evil
John Hough, 1971, UK, 87m, 35mmVampire Circus
Robert Young, 1972, UK, 87m, 35mmThe Vampire Lovers
Roy Ward Baker, 1970, UK/U.S., 91m, 35mmWhen Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
Val Guest, 1970, UK, 96m, 35mm"
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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