Hammer Films

  • Quatermass II

    Quatermass II

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    We’d issued The Quatermass Xperiment on standard 8 well before I’d joined the company and it had never been released on Super 8. Years later while on a business trip to Pinewood studios we’d bumped into an old friend and business colleague, I don’t remember the name, however he had the rights to a number…

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  • Horror of Frankenstein

    Horror of Frankenstein

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    A title from our first EMI contract and in all truth not one of Hammers best Frankenstein outings, but the market was starved of Hammer horrors and this filled that gaping hole admirably. Atmospheric artwork from Marianne Frost and a label that I printed with some satisfaction. Labels courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’  …

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  • The Quatermass Experiment

    The Quatermass Experiment

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    This is perhaps one of the most celebrated Science Fiction thrillers of all time and was the one that put back the word ‘Great’ in Great British films, but it’s also the thriller that put Hammer Films on the road to becoming the worlds favourite horror movie studios. Based on the 1953 BBC 6 part…

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