Hammer House Of Horror - Complete Collection [1980]

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Brings back those memories.......2008-01-12

I first watched this great little horror series as a very impressionable 12 year old back in the eighties.I loved it then and i love it now,even if it has dated.

You have some great little stories here that bring back the days of the hammer horror movies and a cast of actors many will recognise even if some were just starting out on the road to stardom.

My favourite episodes were the silent scream which included a chilling turn from Peter Cushing and a young Brian Cox.

Children of the full moon which included the lovely Diana Dors as the sinister owner of a country house.

All these episodes brought back memories of the great hammer films from my childhood,back in the days when people knew how to scare and cause unease without resorting to throwing buckets of blood around like the cheap and nasty gorefests that show in the cinema today.

So if you like your horror with a good story,chilling characters that scare you even more when most look like every day people you can trust.Then just pull up a chair in front of the fire on a winters night,dim the lights and sit back and enjoy.

'Collection Of A Classic Series'.......2007-06-15

Not only are the vast majority of the programmes contained here thoroughly entertaining but watching them is sure to bring back so many other 70's related memories. Each episode begins 'straight in' just to build up the tension before the classic HHOH creepy music comes in. With the footage of that big old house and it's very creepy grounds you know every time that as soon as the guy at the end of the scene pulls back that curtain you're going to be scared! While some of the tales on here are better than others ('The House That Bled To Death' and 'Charley Boy' are particularly good) all are indelibly stamped with the classic 'Hammer feel' and I feel bring 70's Britain back to life. I loved watching these old programmes again as much for the glimpses it gave me of so many now classic cars as anything! Mini's, Ford Escorts and God, how I still love those old Rover 3.5's that used to be cop cars everywhere, remember? There were even places to park in those days too!!!
Stick a T Rex cd on first then sit down and watch this, I guarantee that if your a horror fan and liked the recent 'Life on Mars' series you will love this too. Return to a much less scarey era for a few hours and for once be scared by something that is NOT real. BUY THIS!

not all episodes are very well played. 3 episodes are a bit weak........2007-02-10

- the carpathian eagle: the plot is a bit silly. A murder is a woman, what the police officer has already accused & investigated her more detail. Basic Instinct with Sharon Stone is much better than this one.
- the rude awakening: Denholm Elliot's acting is really rubbish, funny but childish. he can't make a difference between reality and nightmare.
- the visitor from the grave: the story again is a little bit weak. It has nothing to do with a real devil worship, but the cruel plan is based on the intriges (Money greedy), where the husband betrays his silly naive wife.

- The house that bled to death: It is absolutely a chilling story and the plot is very well played. The motiv is the curse of old murdering house.
- The guardian of Abyss: I like this one. A Human sacrifice must be done. It has a deal with the supernatural power/Devil Worship. The whole actings are really well played.
- Growing pains: I like this mystery one. A family son was killed by the accident and his parents adopt a new boy from the orphan house. The late son comes to terrrorize the family again.
- Charlie boy: Probably this is perhaps the best episode of this Boxset DVD. It tells about a voodoo curse everyone cannot excape.
- the silent scream: Peter Cushing is a chilling guy. The plot is acted very well. The plot has actually nothing to do with a supernatural power but alot to do with a human madness. The only silly act is the acting of Chuck's wife. She doesn't tell anything about the cases to the policemen. That is the only one esperience that totally lacks the logical sense.
- the mark of evil: this one is again a bit silly story. It has nothing to do with a supernatural power but with a paranoia world. The guy was a psychotic type in the hospital.
- the witching time: this is one of the best of all episodes. It tells about a young witch who escapes from the year of 1632. She enters a new world in 1980.
- the thirteen reunion: this is one of the best of all episodes. It tells about the story of cannibalism. The young reporter must investigate the case and finally she becomes a victim of cannibalism.
- the children of the full moon: this is one of the best of all episodes. It tells about a werewolf. He captures the couples in the wood and raped her wife to give him a birth of werewolf - baby.
- the two faces of evil: this is the best haunting mystery. The evil power takes over the human shapes and bodies after the car accident.

Two Faces of Evil.......2006-05-06

I was just reminiscing the other day that when I was about 10 I stayed at my Nan's in Birmingham and watched Two faces oif Evil. I don't think I've ever remember being more scared of a film!! Good ol' Hammer - corny but great!!

Top level nostalgia.......2005-10-15

4 Stars for me personally, if only because of the nostalgia it provoked. There's no point in going into how dated it looks. Instead (and this may only apply to folks between 30 and 50 years old) let's remember what a very good series this was. Hammer commanded a huge audience (or is it just my fading memory) with some great actors of the age. My overriding memory is "Two faces of evil", which i watched when i was (i think) eight or maybe nine, and still remember to this day being so scared i couldn't sleep. This won't appeal to all audiences, but my generation (30 somethings, you know who you are) will love it, if only for the memory of being too scared to switch the light off.

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