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1. Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot The Plotters - Wikimedia Commons For all those who haven't remembered, remembered, in 1604-1605 Guy Fawkes was part of an extremist Catholic conspiracy to blow up the House of Lords and kill (among...
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Firstly thank you to all who entered the 1st Hammer Halloween film competition. We received a huge response, and the overall quality of entries was staggering! Almost all of the films had something special to recommend them (deranged daughters, cyber...
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From Jack-O-Lanterns to creepy costumes, here are the terrifying true roots of the modern Halloween celebration!
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Hammer Leads Exhibition's Film Presence In the dimly lit chambers of the British Library’s PACCAR gallery, something dark is afoot… Opening last week, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination is an elegant- not to mention obsessive- exhibition which guides viewers through the...
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Have you ever posed the question 'What is a Hammer film'? Maybe you're a Hammer fan yourself and have been asked this in the past only to digress in to a long and complicated explanation about the origin of horror cinema. Well newbie and veteran sigh no more, we've condensed eighty years of film history into one short list of numbers, pictures and videos - yay!
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