CineMassacre's Monster Madness #12 The Hammer Films (late 1950's to early 1970's)

[jabsluna]

can i watch one video about vampires and not hear about the EVIL twighlight

[hang1iderswing]

I love when he just doesn't know how to describe what has killed Dracula when he's like... stabbed by a wheel or something.

[MsPookiey]

Now THAT was Fun!!!!!  :)

[Leatherbubba]

Even when Peter Cushing plays jerkass Dr. Frankenstein, he's still incredibly likable.

[newdefsys]

Hammer Studios kicks ass

[radioclash81]

As far as the Hammer horror films go, my favorites are definitely the first ones for each creature--never really cared too much for any of the sequels. I noticed that Curse of the Werewolf (1961) wasn't mentioned here--that's one of the best in the Hammer series.

[emotexmex]

2:35 Holy shit. How is it that this looks more realistic than today's movies

[gkillah678]

yah twilight we all already know its for fags so if you bring it up then u r a fag wait im bringing it up...oh shit!

[TuWear]

. . . Oh I kept thinking "Did the Twilight Zone really make episodes of Vampires?" Then I realize, they mean the other one with Twilight as the title.

[aTF2player]

ALLRIGHT EVERYONE. TWILIGHT. NEVER. HAPPENED.

[Talisguy]

@aTF2player Waaaaaay ahead of you *represses all memory of it ever existing*

[zombiefan011]

He forgot Horror of Frankenstein, but that was more of a satirical remake of Curse of Frankenstein anyway

PS how come he didn't really talk about Hammer's Mummy series?

[IncredibleFulk1]

@zombiefan011 Remeber, this was the first time he made Monster Madness. So he was only suming up the series rather than going in detail. I also think that the first Mummy of hammer was the only film of that series to have Cushing & Lee. But I don't know for sure.

[zombiefan011]

He forgot the Brides of Dracula and Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires.

[alexrdias]

It was great to see the Horror trio back in the Star Wars saga. Great actors with iconic roles.

[hankolijo]

That awkward moment when both top comments are exact opposites...

[godzillastalker]

Me and my dad always say "A hammer production, so bad you want to hit yourself in the head with a hammer!" The frankenstein ones got weird after a while.

[zombiefan011]

@learsterling yeah forget Twilight and only talk about or watch the classic Universal and Hammer films or the good modernized ones, like the Lost Boys, Fright Night and Daybreakers

[MrHueJazz1]

There was one of these movies where a scientist would drip water on some blue crystals and it would make a blue beam of light. That blue light could capture these creatures that come for a persons soul at the moment of death. As long as the creature was in this blue beam of light the the person it came for could not die. I can't remember the name of the movie though.

[learsterling]

Lets all just try and forget about twilight so that the future generations thank us

[metromaster100]

is it appropriate to watch all these during night?

[GameStar1300]

at like 0:58 was he stabing her tits?

[VanTX89]

2:36 is so unintentionally funny...

[GreenGeckoStudios]

If only all the hammer horror films were released in some £50 giant box set! It would be so cool it would definitely kill Dracula!

[jerzeefranky3475]

it was meant 2 be tongue-in-cheek...

[MyMerlin1]

British horror is the best, you cant beat the hammer films.

[Spore6001]

Urgh stop commenting about Twilight people. If you hate it so much why do you keep talking about it?

[WafflezDay]

CLEAVAGE! :D

[scoobyrds]

Peter Cushing is "harming nobody"?? Say that to Carrie Fischer.

[mst3KGf]

1:22 - I still jump at that shot of Christopher Lee in full-blown "I'm pissed off" Dracula mode. Yikes. Show that to a Twihard and they'll be in analysis for weeks.

[MrChemicalPony]

@TheStonedDemon I'm well aware, I was kidding.

[MrChemicalPony]

@Leatherbubba How dare you, Twilight is the best pony.

[TheStonedDemon]

@MrChemicalPony

he was talking about the shitty twilight movies

not mlp

[Leatherbubba]

Generic anti-Twilight comment.

[Mario36Bros]

I think the most underrated of the Hammer flicks is "The Curse of the Werewolf." Can someone please tell me they've seen at least a bit of it!

[Cupcakejack]

@Mario36Bros I agree! I think it is one of Hammer underrated films. I think they overrate the vampire lovers

[LordAndroidGeek]

I am happy to say my late grandfarther played golf with the Hammer Films own Dracula

[venomfan3412]

@Zillafan01 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,­000,000,000,000 thumbs up!

[ultimatesharpzilla]

REMAKE!

[sicboi80]

James i'm obsessed with these old school horror reviews, please keep making more!

[jerzeefranky3475]

Martin Landau=Played the guy who was/is a Real Vampire

[CoolerKing37]

@jerzeefranky3475 Bela Lugosi? He wasn't a real vampire....

[Zillafan01]

Thumbs up if Twilight BRINGS SHAME TO VAMPIRES

[key099able]

@Zillafan01 vampires dies in sunlight, not sparkle

[aenguscon]

lol at 0:25 he looks like he could be on sesame street

[passivepower]

Fuck you Cinemassacre for Blocking me

Guess only the best of the best trolls get blocked.

Shit's so cash

[david2000magic]

@passivepower blablablabla. AAH shut your mouth you steaming,stinking pile of monkey crap

[Sonic62920]

Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster (Frankenstein is the doctor) and the Monster from Hell played separate roles? This suit can come to my place, and BURN!! Quote from the Monster from Hell on the set of Star Wars.

[MechaDestoroyah8]

Why is the two top comments similar? lol

[HLGFreeman]

Gotta love Hammer Horror. I need to dig up my collection boxsets again and watch me some Frankenstein and Dracula again. Great work as usual James!.

[breseemaxwell]

ENOUGH WITH THE TWILIGHT COMMENTS!!!

[SergiuKC]

did hammer ever make a wolfman movie? :|

[Leatherbubba]

@SergiuKC  They did Curse of the Werewolf. It's pretty good.

[Narudude360]

Peter Cushing was also Dr. Who (no, not the Doctor of Doctor Who, Dr. Who), in the American theatrical adaptions of Doctor Who. The ones my dad saw as a kid.

[CvijaFaQ]

I've watched Satanic Rites of Dracula, heard about that movie trough music. Big fan of a band called Electric Wizard (stoner metal) and they had a song called Satanic Rites of Drugula.

[FireSpirit117]

Oh my God, people. Shut up about Twilight already. If it's that bad then why the hell do you all keep bringing it up?

[zombiefan011]

@FireSpirit117 it's an addiction it's so bad for us but we can't help it

[MrDevilsbrood1012]

@FireSpirit117 ironically i agree with you

[RandomGamerNumber01]

Edward: Hello. Who are you?

Bela Lugosi: An actual real vampire.(to christopher lee) How was that?

[TenderTrap86]

Hammer Horror is gothic horror gone gangsta. I love Hammer. I wish they were still around, or at least made more movies. There's more classic horror themes they didn't touch. They stopped making these films too soon.

James, a suggestion for future Cinemassacre: a review of Hammer's non-Dracula vampire movies.

[sesmar99]

lol what's that movie after "The Day the Earth Stood Still" at 0:24?.

[Thoralmir]

what is the movie at 0:25?

[00420433]

Dear youtube community, i'm trying to find a lee vampire film for my father, and he remembers some things:

1. A vampire hunter and his father, whose son gets bitten at the end.

2. Something with them in a carriage.

3. Thier room is filled with garlic and stakes and such.

If anyone could help it whould be really appreciated :)

[SolidMike84]

@00420433

"The Fearless Vampire Killers/Dance of the Vampires" (1967) ?

Do a search on youtube and see if it's the right one, the carriage made me think this might be the one (saw it as a kid and if anything remember a carriage scene), but I think it was about the hunter and his assistant

Hope it's the one

[SolidMike84]

@00420433

I could be wrong though

[00420433]

@SolidMike84 Wow, thank you! I looked it up and the wikipedia discription matches what my father said perfectly. One thing though, it doesn't have Christoper Lee? How? Maybe he also saw a lee movie and thinks it is the same. I'll ask him later, thanks so much for your help! :-)

[SolidMike84]

@00420433

Look it up on youtube and see the trailer, might give some flashbacks ^^

Funny you should say that, 'cause for some reason I thought that I had seen him as well in that movie only to find out that he wasn't o_0

Perhaps someone who looked like him? I still to this day have not seen this movie since I was a little kid

No problems :)

[00420433]

@SolidMike84 As a matter of fact, you are 100 % right. He was suprised as well it wasn't Christoper Lee. But it was about 30 years ago he saw it.

Again, thanks alot for your help : D!

[crazystein65]

what about brides of dracula?

[checkeredflag90210]

@neonhero1000

vampire fail. youtube comment win.

[hackett152332]

@neonhero1000

[Teenlego]

@neonhero1000 Count Chocula was more of a vampire compared to Edward

[Rubberman202]

@neonhero1000 He's gay? I thought he liked that dumbass bitch that can't choose between him and the werewolf that never wears a shirt.

[Mofobling01]

@neonhero1000 how original

[licoagustin9]

@neonhero1000 EPIC!!!!!!!!! :D lol

[Purpleisawesome93]

@neonhero1000 Edward can't even get cock :P

[silverbeast75]

what confuses me is that the films like Dracula Frankenstein and the wolf man were all made in the 1930,s and 40s then the hammer versions come along and no one complains now everyone complains about remakes it was never a problem then why should it be a problem now?

[Lui123ist]

@silverbeast75 Because the hammer films was really good, and there wasn´t remakes around back then.

Now you can´t go on the street without hearing about a new bad remake!:D

[silverbeast75]

@Lui123ist bad remake well if there are bad remakes then that must also mean that there are good remakes ie king kong the omen the texas chainsaw massacere from 2003 war of the worlds so there are also good remakes out there gary oldman in dracula thats good as well

[Lui123ist]

@silverbeast75 Well your´e right. But most of the time, there bad.:D

[Jigglingbutt]

What do you get when you take Count Drakula and give him a lightsabre? You get count dooku XD

[puffpuffdustbunny]

if you people won't stop complaining about horror movies go make one i want to be entertained

[radioclash81]

Yes, Hammer did like the buxom ladies.

[MikeWasHere10]

Cleavage <3

[TheT800infiltrator]

@TheZombiesharks YUS! Him too ><

[zillydino]

@TheT800infiltrator

Those two are renowned film legends, plain and simple. But what's your opinion on Marceliine from Adventure Time? I think if there was to be a friendly vampire, they made a better choice that time around.

[MrFirthguy]

My favorite monster madness episode what if next time in monster madness you do the separate

[SethTheViking]

last weekend I stayed in this new house my auntie bought in whitstable when I got there I saw a big plaque on the wall and holy shit balls I was staying in Peter Cushings house. there is also an old looking but new cinema in the town dedicated to him. What an awesome weekend that was XD

[lenrat117]

Christopher lee is a FUCKING legend

[smashpro35]

if lee is the 2nd best dracula, then gary olman is the third

[littlbigtree]

Dude, that little tidbit about George Lucas actually made some sense! He began making the first star wars around that period too! That's kinda cool to know.

[conrod15reveiw]

Aside from the color, blood and cleavage (even boobs in the late 60s and 70s), the things that made Hammer films great were the talented actors, high production value and mostly the settings and atmosphere. Since Hammer was in England, if they needed a gothic castle or graveyard they simply found an actual gothic castle or graveyard and filmed on location. They didn't have to build cheap styrofoam sets that could only be filmed from one angle. I wish they'd make movies like that again.

[MrBill0327]

i always (usually) watch b movies on halloween I FELL IN LOVE WITH THEM

[groovymoustach]

2:37 FUCK OW

[GANGSTAELPASO]

Christopher lee= Dracula, Count Dooku , Saruman

[omgitzruffles]

HOLY SHIT LORD DOOKU WAS DRACULA

[loordiboy1]

Dracula was the first prince of darknes ? Then it was ozzy and then lich king ?

[vicwitch]

Dracula from hammer films played by Sir Christopher Lee was the best Dracula ever and also was the classic Dracula figure and the most terrifying Dracula ever.

[tobluetoblack]

thats a terrible idea shaving of his eyebrows no offense

[Runningtail]

Paul: "Victor, WHERE is this brain to COME FROM?!"

Victor: "...Let me borrow your head, Paul."

[balrog13571]

It's really a shame these films can't be on complete boxsets due to different films belonging to different studios (Universal Warner Bros Paramount etc) as it's been a REAL pain trying to track them down and some cost much more than others. It's not like Universal where you get those great deals by buying The Legacy Collections and a set of their 50's monster movies. It took forever to find some of these! Well hopefully someday the studios will have the sense to split the profits off of these.

[JediMasteKnuzzles]

Now my revenge is complete...sounds like Now your training is complete or your destoney is complete....Mr. Lucas, good job aroval

[wingzero7X]

HOLY SHIT ITS GOVENOR TARKIN FROM FREAKING STAR WARS!!!

[MosleyFML]

0:52 Tit stab

[WALSHfilm]

whats that monster at 0:25 sec. , he shows it alot and its interesting and weird.

[sertuli]

@WALSHfilm It's the Kraken

[lkcrm94]

@WALSHfilm It's the Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth.

[Pilaf1984]

Goddamn...Cushing as Frankenstein is HARDCORE xD

[MrSavagevvv]

"he hets sun burrned, drowned, stabbed, electrocuted, stabbed,stabbed, sta- ah damn Dracuka gets fucked up." funny as hell! XD

[pigfarts992]

The funny thing is that Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were in one or two Star Wars movies and some point.

[TheT800infiltrator]

Christopher Lee = Real vampire

Bela Lugosi = Real vampire

Edward = fail

[dominoesandtin]

@TheT800infiltrator Mak Shrek- Real Vampire

[GOTH86]

@TheT800infiltrator Edward=sparkling piece of shit in a tree

[CptQuestionMark]

@TheT800infiltrator What about Gary Oldman? Or Max Schreck? They're all real vampires.

[garganrose]

@TheT800infiltrator don't forget Max Shrek and Lon Chainey Sr. their real vampires to.

[nightbane2]

@TheT800infiltrator Max Schreck = Real vampire

[Plingio]

@nightbane2 What about Klaus Kinski? What about Lon Chaney? What about Lon Chaney Jr.? I'm sure there are more,

[MrPanda8000]

@TheT800infiltrator christopher lee= real vampire bala lugosi= real vampire edward= fairy

[TheT800infiltrator]

@MrPanda8000 Indeed my friend

[sfighter991]

@TheT800infiltrator Amen to that :)

[Whiteknight36799]

@TheT800infiltrator that should be the most thumbed up ever on youtube

[Whistified]

@TheT800infiltrator Even Count Chocula is a better vampire than Edward.

[wolfblaze99]

@TheT800infiltrator Don't know what a EDWARD is

[redbayly]

I love the Hammer Horror Dracula series, I am so gonna get every one of those movies on DVD.

[garganrose]

if they ever make a castlevania movie they really should have Christopher Lee play Dracula.

[ARSENALOFMEGADEATH]

@garganrose , how you gonna do that? he's 88 and not going to be bouncing around in the "demented cookie monster" outfit anytime soon.

[garganrose]

@ARSENALOFMEGADEATH i know that but i was thinking they would use the castlevania 64 design. no demented cookie monster.

[ARSENALOFMEGADEATH]

@garganrose , thats fair. i could see that.

[minhmook]

He gets stabbed by a wheel xD

[Mechamortal]

Christopher Lee makes the perfect villain in any movie.

[jagarcia0705]

3:21 Nostalgia Critic: (speaking in a wussy voice) Where's my girlfriend? What? She's dead, NNNOOO!!! (speaking normal) Mr. Bill sounded more butch than him.

In case anybody was wondering that line was from Nostalgia Critic's Top 11 Coolest Cliches, why top 11, because he like to go one step beyond.

[Yazunmanto77]

wait a min... pause at 1:40...

is that what i think it is?

[mattffx10]

Most of the Hammer films were filmed in a Studio on my road!

[cadorbolin]

When I first saw the original CineMassacre Monster Madness series, it was videos #12 (Hammer) and #13 (Corman-Poe) that stood out the most for me. I made it my mission to acquire as many horror films as possible from these eras (1957-1974) which I consider to be the true golden age of horror film.

I always disliked the mindless slashers when I was a kid growing up in the 1980s. Where was Dracula? Where were the Gothic castles? Horror films need atmosphere.

[TenderTrap86]

@cadorbolin I grew up as a kid watching Hammer's The Mummy and it was always one of my favorite horror films. But, I didn't even realize that The Mummy was one among many films made in the same style. I then saw Dracula, Frankenstein, so on and got hooked. Thanks to Cinemassacre I was also introduced to the Corman-Poe series and I enjoy them as well. I love those old technicolor gothic horror films. My opinion is that they're better than the more recent slasher films, but that's only my opinion.

[critic189]

you forgot brides

[TenderTrap86]

@critic189 Well, Brides didn't have Christopher Lee, and I think Cinemassacre was just pointing out all the films that Lee starred in as the title character in the Hammer franchise. :)

[pretorious700]

0:35 looks just like a Frank Frazetta painting

[theTF2sniper]

hammer and grindhouse were the shit back then!

still are! i love these old horror movie's!

[Tryzon]

0:01 "I bid you welcome."

That was a nice touch.

[odysseasX]

0:53 Seriously now, is that a real scream for a girl? More like a parrot getting raped.

[DanielDamascusKimery]

Amazing. Absolutely Amazing. I am Subscribing now.

[kallemick]

@DanielDamascusKimery i think the cinemassacre videos are amazing i watch movie reviews even if im not interested just because theyre really good at doing it

[TheMrCaddyshack]

Anyone here realize that Patrick Troughton, the 2nd Doctor Who, was at 1:23, or that Peter Cushing played him in the Dalek movies?

[Carltheturtletamer]

Damn I said "somebody was a fan" the same time James did!

[dragonman100100]

thes movies kick ass

[Rubberman202]

...DAMN, Christopher Lee is almost 90 years old by now!

[MrZinkle]

im not the only one who saw the floor indent @ 2:37

[Vault101Reject]

@MrZinkle Nope. But it was that or have the actor break his neck.

[MrZinkle]

@Vault101Reject ohhhh

[Vault101Reject]

@MrZinkle OR they could have thrown a dummy down there, but that'd have looked crap.

[MrZinkle]

@Vault101Reject well no one wouldve really noticed in 1960's

[TheDylan10123]

Pause at 1:34 cleavage in 60's movies!? LawL

[ldmami]

At 1:51 draculs gets pwned

[Vault101Reject]

definately favoriting this so I can come back and get all the names of these movies later.

[commando2224]

0:50 i Disagree come on tamed now? r u serious saw?? most horrors rely on quick screams and blood all over seriously old school horrors with just the story makes it scarey is best.

[richwicz]

Peter Cushing is my favourite actor ever!

[kaptinkarr]

count pimpula

[TehLazaMan]

Dracula is what Gandalf fears more than the Balrog.

(You catch my drift?)

[Twister6900]

I really wasn't really a big fan of the hammer films but they were good remakes,actually the best remakes of the classics.

[minhmook]

2:42 hes climing in your windows snatching your people up

[MUTNTbill]

@minhmook you know you cant hide anything from this dude right ? :)

[Villesanti]

Hammer films were the best. The gothic look, the misty atmosphere, the Victorian era, everything was perfect. My favorites were the Frankenstein series!

[HattieLovesCattie]

Years ago at a B and B in Scotland,I met this English couple who knew an elderly couple near London.The couple owned the home Hammer used many times in his Dracula movies.The couple had no kids and rented the beautiful home to Hammer for years ( to help pay their awful high English taxes).Things always got broken and had to be fixed.

[DanielBowden1975]

AD 1972 has got be one funniest films I've ever seen. Classic

[kay3crew]

what an awesome stunt performance.... at 2:36..... looks brutal even today

[joerouleau54]

since when did dracula stab people?

[FrozenBrainz]

1:47 Dracula was stabbed by a wheel xD

[CultureClasher]

Here's a good ending for Twilight: Dracual comes out of nowhere hissing with his mouth smeared with blood, killing Edward and Jacob and then sucking Bella's blood.

[sonicfan456]

@CultureClasher DAMN right. that would be the best movie series ending ever.

[redfatcrystal11]

@CultureClasher nonono not blood her boobs :D

[flagwaver1969]

The Hammer films deserve better introduction than the narration by a seemingly uneducated boy from a Los Angeles public school system.

[Fragile0Still]

Big thank you to James here for introducing me to Terence Fisher. Always felt he was a very under rated director (as is Ishiro Honda, the man behind Gojira and Toho's major monster films) and I'm glad to see a Youtube tribute. You made me run out and buy Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. No disappointments here. Monster and horror movie fans, pick these up immediately!

[TheChoujinVirus]

so true

Christopher "Count Dooku" Lee played a great Dracula

[joelexwilson]

I would love to see James review this film called Monster Club starring Vincent Price. Its an anthology and the last bit of it scared the shit out of me seriously I still get shivers thinking about it. Would love to see James review it