Hammer Horrors

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Your Bluesky dose of all things Hammer and vintage/British horror. 🖤 All welcome in these unhallowed halls.

Profile shot of Michael Ripper as police inspector Cobb in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970).
Stylised shot of Dracula’s bride with fang bared, posed to bite the neck of Jonathan Harker (Jon Van Eyssen). https://atomicchronoscaphadam.home.blog/2017/10/27/valerie-gaunt-horror-of-dracula-1958/
Behind the scenes colour shot of Christopher Lee, laid down in a red lined coffin as two hair and make up artists works on his face and hair.
Screenshot featuring Mocata (Charles Gray) in a purple robe with arms upheld above a child (Rosalin Landor) on an altar. Black candles burn either side.
B&W behind the scenes image of Fisher on the icy castle moat set for Dracula: Prince of Darkness in 1965. He is holding a cup of tea over a coffin and stood opposite actor Francis Matthews.
B&W behind the scenes photograph of Lee as Dracula stood on the icy moat/Castle Dracula exterior set at Bray Studios. A camera man and continuity woman watch on.
B&W production still featuring the nanny (Bette Davis) and Aunt Pen (Jill Bennett) with little Joey (William Dix), holding a mesh of twisted rope in a bedroom.
Colour screenshot from The Vampire Lovers (1970), featuring Emma (Maddy Smith) sat in bed embracing Carmilla (Ingrid Pitt), a candle burning behind them.
Screenshot of vampire Lucy (Carol Marsh) laid in a coffin with a crazed look upon her face, burnt cross mark on her forehead and fangs bared.
American trailer with the film retitled as ‘Enemy from Space’.
Screenshot of Johnny (Christopher Neame) sat in a car with fangs bared and a cunning/mischievous look on his face.
Screenshot: A close up of Charles Gray as Mocata, his piercing blue eyes staring ahead intently.
Black and white Vampire Circus promo image of Thorley Walters as the suited Mayor of Stetl, stood in front of villagers holding torches.
Vampires Helen (Barbara Shelley) in long white night gown, stands at the foot of a stone staircase in Dracula’s red-lit castle, surrounded by moody shadows.
Screenshot of a luminous Hazel Court in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).
Dracula (Christopher Lee) with wide eyes and blood dripping from his mouth, awakens in his coffin. Dracula (1958).
Black and white behind the scenes image of director Terence Fisher on set pointing to script as a smiling Peter Cushing and Veronica Carlson look on.
Screenshot from Dracula has Risen from the Grave (1968).
Bates holding a dagger and dressed in a red lined cape as Lord Courtley in Taste the blood of Dracula (1970).