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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8255620"><p>I quite like Event Horizon but laughed a lot too. Hammer spanned the gamut. I watched hammer in the 80s as a kid and the 90s in high school. Those are the years I first encountered hammer. I found most of the early stuff scary, with an edge of dark humor. Many of the characters were surprisingly cruel and nasty (which I liked). Later movies seemed to be a mix of horror, more camp, and shock (like both the early and later stuff). Sone of the effects were outdated but still worked for me. Most of what I heard from my uncle and parents about hammer was they were violent. They were accustomed to black and white 50s horror so I think that first Dracula movie was probably pretty striking to them. I am sure there may have been things they laughed at (which is fine because horror can be humorous). Heck my grandfather used to laugh watching The Godfather and gangster movies when people died because there is a kind of gallows humor in the way people die in those. Everyone has different reactions to films. But it seems to me the consensus was hammer movies were a bit shocking for their time (might have gotten different reactions in the US versus UK)</p></blockquote><p></p>