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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8252433" data-attributes="member: 6906155">On Hammer filmsHammer never set out to make "Gothic Horror" or "Classic Horror", they set out to make "popular horror", and to do it as cheaply as possible. They adapted novels that where more than 60 years old because the copywrite had expired and they didn't have to pay the authors anything. They used darkness and fog because it disguised cheep costumes and sets, they used London locations because they where local. They kept the violence and sex to what the censors of the time would let them get away with - most obvious towards the end of the cycle when the censors loosened up on sex.Nevertheless, the films still stood up quite well in the 1980s. Something they don't do in the hi res post computer graphics movie world of the 2020s. Chances are, the target audience of the new Ravenloft book have never seen one.Some notable Hammer films:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Quatermass Xperiment (1955). Science fiction body horror.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Gorgon (1955). Classic D&D monster, not so much a classic gothic monster....</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Plague of the Zombies (1966). Invented the zombie movie.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One Million Years BC (1966). Dinosaurs and fur bikinis. Horrific for anyone who cares about historical authenticity! Where is Ravenloft's dinosaur domain?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Devil Rides Out (1968). From the Dennis Weatley novel, dealing with Satanism. A forerunner of The Exorcist.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1974). Pretty much the archetypical Ravenloft adventure...</li> </ul></blockquote>

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