![The Gorgon (Hammer 1964)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Gorgon-The_01-170x120.jpg)
Hammer studios turned to Greek mythology to find the source for The Gorgon. In the small German village of Vandorf, authorities are puzzled by […]
![Christopher Lee](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Christopher-Lee_main-170x120.jpg)
Christopher Lee – or, to afford him his proper title, Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ – was born on the 27th May, […]
![Taste the Blood of Dracula (Hammer 1970)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Taste-the-Blood-of-Dracula_main1-170x120.jpg)
Taste the Blood of Dracula, Hammer’s fourth entry in the series, was made in late 1969, and released on the 7th of May, 1970. […]
![The Satanic Rites of Dracula (Hammer 1973)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Satanic-Rites-of-Dracula_main-2-170x120.jpg)
By the time The Satanic Rites of Dracula was in production, many had fallen out of love with Hammer’s beloved bloodsucker franchise, not least […]
![Dracula Prince of Darkness (Hammer 1965)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Dracula-Prince-of-Darkness_main-170x120.jpg)
At the end of Christopher Lee’s dramatic, dusty demise as the titular character in Hammer’s Dracula (1958), we see that count’s ashes divinely scattering […]
![Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (Hammer 1968)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Dracula-Has-Risen-from-the-Grave_main-170x120.jpg)
Hammer’s third entry proper in their Dracula saga came on the back of their Queen’s Award to Industry. James Carreras had sold the package […]
![Halloween (Compass 1978)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Halloween_03-170x120.jpg)
When John Carpenter and Debra Hill unleashed their classic prototype of the slasher movie, Halloween, on an unsuspecting audience in 1978, cinemagoers didn’t quite […]