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Remembering Freddie Francis

It’s one of the most effective starts to any Hammer movie. A stormy evening. The sound of low thunder and the hooting of an unseen owl. A man furtively approaches a shack where a corpse lies supine across a wooden table. But when the inside door of the ramshackle home opens, we find a young girl entering, and we see what she sees...

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Hammer House of… Christmas

There’s a rich tradition of Yuletide horror movies, stretching back to cinema’s silent era and classics like Körkarlen (1921), a remarkably pacy Swedish production that still retains the power to chill. So, what does Hammer bring to the (Christmas) party?

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