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Hammer Presents: Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
The next entry in the ongoing Hammer Presents range will be Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971), the Brit horror that BBC Culture called ‘criminally underrated’. Its hagsploitation credentials are often discussed but here we’re examining other elements, including its rich...
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Hagsploitation… All this time we could have been friends?

It’s controversial, creepy and cool, and hagsploitation has once again been thrust into the spotlight with the restoration and release of Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971). So to celebrate the film becoming part of the Hammer Presents range we’re wiping away the make-up and staring into the face of one of cinema’s most contentious categories and asking, whatever happened to hagsploitation?

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Dracula is Coming… A Q&A with Hammer’s Steve Rogers

On World Dracula Day (or as some people call it, May 26th) Hammer announced hugely exciting news: ‘This October, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are together again as Hammer’s original Dracula returns to cinemas and makes its worldwide home entertainment debut in stunning 4K.’

We needed to find out more so sat down with Hammer’s Steve Rogers to get the inside story on this very welcome return.

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