Hammer Horror Collection (1957)

The Curse of Frankenstein
Science or madness? Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face... and a tendency to kill.

The Curse of Frankenstein is "the film that started it all," creature portrayer Christopher Lee said. Indeed, this exciting classic from Britain's Hammer Studios almost single handedly revived screen gothic horror and in tiated a series of scream hits pairing Lee and Peter Cushing (playing Victor). The monster's appearance shocked audiences... and before that, the cast and crew. "No one would eat with me (during lunch breaks) because I looked so awful!" Lee recalled. As the original ad campaign requested: "Please try not to faint."

Dracula has Risen from the Grave
A village trembles in fear. A priest forsakes his vows in the service of evil. Young beauties fall victim to a mysterious seducer. And each night brings the threat of death. Because Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.

In his third incarnation as Bram Stoker's infamous vampire, horror great and 55-year movie veteran Christopher Lee goes fang to cross with the forces of good in this atmospheric Hammer Studios film directed with stylish menace by two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Freddie Francis. he and Lee see to it that just as the undead rises in terrifying fashion so will your goosebumps.

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Baron Frankenstein's experiment went wrong, dead wrong. Thus, another victim lies in a makeshift grave. Suddenly, a water main bursts, forcing the dead man's arm to the surface. Next the torrent heaves the body upward. Frankenstein's panicked accomplice tries to reconceal the body... but corpses can be so unwieldy.

Horror of Dracula
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, Britain's premier masters of the macabre, bring the Horror of Dracula to vivid, full-color death in this retelling of Bram Stoker's spellbinding vampire tale. Dracula (Lee), a centuries-old nobleman damned to an eternal half-life, travels from his native Transylvania to London. In the lurid nightlife of his adopted city, he finds new victims. He also finds Dr. Van Helsing (Cushing), a scientist who becomes the Count's implacable foe in a deadly game of bat-and-mouse.

The dread is here - as are the power and pathos of this genre landmark by which Hammer Studios ushered in a new era of screen chills from classic evildoers. Tremble through that era again. Unleash the horror.

The Mummy
In Hammer Studios' vivid 1959 Technicolor reincarnation of The Mummy, screen horror icon Christopher Lee wraps on the moldy gauze bandages and emerges as the tormented Kharis, an avenger stalking the hills and bogs of Victorian England to track down archaeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing) and other desecrators of his beloved Princess Ananka's Egyptian tomb.

Taste the Blood of Dracula
It's the boy's night out, time for bawdy fun. Yet revelry alone can't satisfy these community leaders out on a lark. There's still an adventure they can be duped into trying, one that will transformia certain Count from moldering dust into blood-lusting flesh.

Taste the Blood of Dracula, a fourth film in Hammer Studios' cycle of hemogobbling Victorian-Era horror, is a showcase of why Hammer became the name in Gothic terror. The solid cast and rich production design raise goosebumps of real-life fear and otherworld dread. And Christopher Lee dons his red-lined cape again to become Evil Incarnate. He's Count Dracula, a being neither dead nor alive... but his movies are livelier than ever.
 


Editor's Note

This multi-pack contains 6 classic Hammer horror films: THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE, FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED, HORROR OF DRACULA, THE MUMMY, and TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA. See individual titles for detailed information.