HCF Reviews
ISLAND OF TERROR [1966]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY REGION A, DVD and DIGITAL RUNNING TIME: 89 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera On the remote Petrie’s Island off the east coast of Ireland, farmer Ian Bellows goes missing and […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #120: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL [1974]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 93 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic When Simon Helder, a young doctor and an admirer of the work of Baron Victor Frankenstein, […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #93: FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED [1969]
UK AVAILABLE ON DVD RUNNING TIME: 101 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Baron Victor Frankenstein obtains a brain for his next experiment, but he’s surprised by a thief when he returns […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #90: THE DEVIL RIDES OUT [1968]
AKA THE DEVIL’S BRIDE UK AVAILBLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 95 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic SPOILERS! England 1929: the Duc de Richleau and Rex Van […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #83: FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN [1967]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 92 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic As a boy, Hans Werner witnesses his father’s hanging for murder. Years later, he’s working as […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #76: DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS [1966] [DOC’S DRACULA WEEK, FILM 5]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 90 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Transylvania, ten years after Dr. Van Helsing killed Count Dracula. Father Sandor prevents the staking of […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #68: THE GORGON [1964]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY [REGION ‘A] AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 83 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic In the town of Vandorf in 1910, Sascha Cass flees her boyfriend Bruno Heitz after […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #58: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA [1962]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY [REGION B ONLY] AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 90 min REVIEWED BY:Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic 1900. London’s Albany Theatre is hosting the premiere of Saint Joan, an opera by […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #53: THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF [1961]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DND RUNNING TIME: 93 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic In 18th Century Spain, a beggar is imprisoned by Marques Siniestro after making inappropriate remarks at […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #50: SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST [1960]
UK AVAILABLE ON DVD RUNNING TIME: 80 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic A soldier is shot with an arrow but still manages to escape from the evil Sheriff of Nottingham […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #48: THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL [1960]
UK AKA HOUSE OF FRIGHT, JEKYLL’S INFERNO AVAILABLE ON REGION ‘1’ DVD RUNNING TIME: 88 min/ 83 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Dr. Henry Jekyll is a dull, bookish scientist […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #47: THE BRIDES OF DRACULA [1960]
UK AVAILABLE ON DVD AND BLU-RAY RUNNING TIME: 85 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Schoolteacher Marianne Danielle, en route to take up a position in Transylvania, is abandoned at a […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #44: THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY [1959]
UK AVAILABLE ON R1 DVD RUNNING TIME: 80 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Captain Harry Lewis of the British East India Company is investigating why over two thousand natives are […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #42: THE MUMMY [1959]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 86 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic In Egypt in 1895, archaeologists John Banning, his father Stephen and his uncle Joseph Whemple find the […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #40: THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH [1959]: on Blu-ray 21st September
UK ON BLU-RAY: 21st September, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 83 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Paris 1890. Someone kills and mutilates an old man at night. Meanwhile Georges Bonnet, […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #38: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES [1959]
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD RUNNING TIME: 87 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic The infamous and cruel aristocrat Sir Hugo Baskerville is killed by a huge dog after he […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #34: THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN [1958]
UK AVAILABLE ON DVD RUNNING TIME: 89 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Baron Victor Frankenstein has been sentenced to death, but as he approaches the gallows, the priest to whom he […]
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DOC’S JOURNEY INTO HAMMER FILMS #33: DRACULA [1958]
AKA HORROR OF DRACULA UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD [BLU-RAY REGION B ONLY] RUNNING TIME: 82 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic May 3, 1885: Jonathan Harker goes to Castle […]