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Hammer Films or Hammer Pictures is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies — and, in later years, television series. During its most successful years, Hammer dominated the horror film market, enjoying worldwide distribution and considerable financial success. This success was due, in part, to distribution partnerships with major United States studios, such as Warner Bros.
During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer formula, with varying degrees of success. The company eventually ceased production in the mid-1980s. In 2000, the studio was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi and publishing millionaires Neil Mendoza and William Sieghart. The company announced plans to begin making films again after this, but none were produced.
In May 2007, the company was sold again, this time to a consortium headed by Dutch media tycoon John de Mol, who announced plans to spend some $50m (£25m) on new horror films. The new owners also acquired the Hammer group's film library, consisting of 295 movies. Simon Oakes, who took over as CEO of Hammer, said: "Hammer is a great British brand — we intend to take it back into production and develop its global potential. The brand is still alive but no one has invested in it for a long time". Since then it has produced the feature films Let Me In (2010), The Resident (2011) and The Woman in Black (2012).
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(2012)Filmography of Hammer Film Productions (192 films)
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The Quiet Ones (2014)
, 1h33Directed by Sam Claflin, Jared Harris
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Sam Claflin, Jared Harris, Erin Richards, Olivia Cooke, Olivia Cooke, Max Pirkis
A student attends the class of college professor Coupland, who wishes to prove that the supernatural does not exist. Coupland shows a video of a possessed boy and explains that research will be done to find a cure for this kind of disease. One of his students, Brian McNeil, is invited to film the experiment process and joins Coupland, his two assistants Krissi and Harry, and their subject Jane Harper, a young woman who generates strange phenomena and has been abandoned. Jane is generally kept locked in a room with loud rock music playing during the daytime to prevent her from sleeping in the hopes that the psychological agitation will result in increased activity.
, 1h39Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Adrian Rawlins, Ned Dennehy, Jude Wright, Genelle Williams
40 years after the events of the first film, bombs drop down on London during the Blitz of World War II, Eve Parkins joins her schoolchildren and the school's headmistress, Jean Hogg, to evacuate them to the countryside town of Crythin Gifford. On the journey there, Eve meets dashing pilot, Harry Burnstow, who is stationed at an airfield near Crythin Gifford. Upon arrival, they are collected by air raid warden Dr. Rhodes, who takes them to Eel Marsh House. Their bus suffers a puncture while travelling through the deserted village, where Eve is confronted by a raving madman, Jacob, who repeats the phrases "Died on Sunday, seen on Monday," "Who will be next? It must be you," and "Don't look! You mustn't look." She runs away from him and reboards the bus after he shatters the window through which he had been speaking.
Snitch (2013)
, 1h52Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Prison films, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Films about capital punishment, Gangster films
Actors Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper, Jon Bernthal, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Susan Sarandon, Michael K.Williams
John Matthews (Dwayne Johnson), owner of a construction company, receives a call from his ex-wife Sylvie Collins (Melina Kanakaredes). His estranged son Jason (Rafi Gavron) is being charged with distribution of narcotics; while Jason is not actually a dealer, his friend set him up in a sting operation to reduce his own sentence after being caught. Jason's charges carry a minimum of 10 years in prison. John feels responsible because he was not there for his son, and becomes desperate as he realizes that Jason may be killed before he finishes his prison sentence.
The Woman in Black (2012)
, 1h35Directed by James Watkins
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds, Tim McMullan, Janet McTeer, Liz White, Roger Allam
In an Edwardian-era English village, Crythin Gifford, three little girls are having a tea party with their dolls in an attic. They are smiling and having fun when they suddenly look at something in the corner. Then they stand up and walk trance-like to a window and jump to their deaths with blank faces.
The Resident (2011)
, 1h31Directed by Antti Jokinen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee, Lee Pace, Aunjanue Ellis, Michael Massee
Juliet Devereau (Hilary Swank), an emergency room surgeon, rents an apartment in New York City from Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Juliet has recently broken up with her boyfriend Jack (Lee Pace) after she caught him having an affair, but she still has feelings for him. Unbeknownst to Juliet, someone is stalking her, observing her from across the street and apparently entering her apartment.
Wake Wood (2011)
, 1h30Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Brian Gleeson, Briain Gleeson, Dan Gordon
Little Alice Daley is mauled to death by a German Shepherd dog in the yard of her father Patrick's veterinary practice. After her death, Patrick and his wife Louise, a pharmacist, move to a rural village called Wakewood, where they struggle to cope with the loss of their only child (Louise cannot have any more children). The couple's car mysteriously breaks down one evening in the middle of nowhere and they go to the nearby house of Patrick's veterinary colleague, Arthur, to seek help. There Louise witnesses Arthur leading a strange and bloody pagan ritual but refuses to say anything to Patrick. It becomes apparent that something strange is happening in town and that Arthur knows that Louise saw the ritual.
Let Me In (2010)
, 1h56Directed by Matt Reeves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about school violence
Actors Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Koteas, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono, Sasha Barrese
In March 1983, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a disfigured man is taken to the hospital. An unnamed police detective (Elias Koteas) tries to question him about a recent murder. The detective is called to a phone and told that the man's daughter was just downstairs. While he is on the phone, the man jumps out of the window, leaving behind a scrawled note that reads "I'm sorry Abby."
Beyond the Rave (2008)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Nora-Jane Noone, Jamie Dornan, Tamer Hassan, Sebastian Knapp, Sadie Frost, Ingrid Pitt
The story follows the last hours of freedom of local soldier Ed, who is flying out to Iraq the following morning. With the help of his best friend, Necro, he spends his last night in the UK tracking down his missing girlfriend, Jen, who was last seen partying with a bizarre group of hardcore nocturnal ravers led by the mysterious Melech. When he catches up with Jen at a party or rave in a remote forest, Ed discovers that Melech’s crowd are vampires, using the rave to lure victims. Melech and his cult intend to harvest the victims' blood and use it to sustain themselves on a long sea voyage they are planning. Their plans go awry, however, when Ed and several other rave participants offer lethal resistance to the vampires.
The Lady Vanishes (1979)
, 1h35Directed by Anthony Page
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Spy, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael
In August 1939, a motley group of travellers find themselves in a small hotel in Bavaria, awaiting a delayed train to Switzerland. They include a "much married madcap American heiress", Amanda Metcalf-Midvani-Von Hoffsteader-Kelly, and Robert Condon, a wise-cracking American photographer.
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
, 1h29Directed by Peter Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Nastassja Kinski, Denholm Elliott, Michael Goodliffe
Occult writer John Verney (Widmark) is asked by Henry Beddows (Elliot) to pick up his daughter Catherine (Kinski) from the airport. Catherine is a nun with the Children of the Lord, a mysterious heretical order based in Bavaria and is allowed to come to visit once a year on her birthday. But after Catherine arrives, Beddows then insists that she stay with Verney. The order, however, under the sinister excommunicated heretic Father Michael Rayner (Lee), makes all efforts to get Catherine back and uses black magic to stop Verney as he protects her. Verney learns that the order really harbours a group of practicing Satanists, who have prepared Catherine to become an avatar of Astaroth upon her eighteenth birthday.
Shatter (1974)
, 1h29Directed by Monte Hellman, Michael Carreras
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Stuart Whitman, Ti Lung, Lily Li Li-li, Peter Cushing, Anton Diffring, Lau Kar Wing
Monsieur Fracasse (Stuart Whitman), le héros éponyme, un tueur à gages professionnel, est chargé de la neutralisation d'un dirigeant africain. Une fois son contrat rempli et s'étant rendu à Hong Kong pour percevoir ses émoluments, il est à son tour la victime de diverses voies de fait, ses employeurs ayant décidé de le liquider. Il est heureusement pris en charge par deux locaux, un professeur d'arts martiaux (Ti Lung), et une demoiselle travaillant dans le domaine du service à la personne (Lily Li). Ensemble, ils vont affronter leurs adversaires, dont un homme âgé (Peter Cushing).
, 1h39Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Peter Cushing, David Prowse, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, John Stratton, Patrick Troughton
Baron Victor Frankenstein (Cushing) is housed at an insane asylum where he has been made a surgeon at the asylum, and has a number of privileges, as he holds secret information on Adolf Klauss, the asylum's corrupt and perverted director (John Stratton). The Baron, under the alias of Dr. Carl Victor, uses his position to continue his experiments in the creation of man.
, 1h24Directed by Roy Ward Baker, Chang Cheh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Horror, Martial arts
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Sports films, Martial arts films, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Kung fu films
Actors Peter Cushing, John Forbes-Robertson, David de Keyser, Robin Stewart, Julie Ege, David Chiang
In 1904, Professor Lawrence Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) gives a lecture at a Chungking university on Chinese vampire legend. He speaks of an unknown rural village that has been terrorised by a cult of seven known as 'Golden Vampires' for many years. He goes on to explain that a simple farmer, armed with a pitch-fork and who had lost his wife to the vampires, trekked his way to the temple of the vampires, where he saw many other unfortunate women strapped to tables, waiting for their blood to be drained. The farmer burst in and battled the vampires. He is unsuccessful as his wife is killed in the fight, but in the chaos, he grabbed a bat-like medallion from around one of the vampire's necks, which he sees as the vampires' life source. Defeated, the farmer flees the temple, but the High Priest orders the vampires after him. After they leave on horseback, the High Priest summons the vampire's former victims: the 'Undead' from their graves to aid the seven vampires. Still carrying the medallion, the farmer places it around a small model of a Jade Buddha. He knocks desperately on the locked village gates, but it is in vain. The vampires and their undead catch up with him and kill him. One of the vampires spies the medallion around the Buddha and goes over to collect it. The moment the vampire touched the Buddha, the creature is destroyed in flames.
Man About the House (1974)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Actors Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett, Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Roy Kinnear
Young flatmates Chrissy and Jo find a stranger, student chef Robin Tripp, asleep in their bath the morning after the farewell party for their departed flatmate Eleanor. They are taken with Robin when he makes them a delicious breakfast; they themselves are terrible cooks. Learning that he is staying at the YMCA and is looking for a place, they easily convince him to move in, making it clear, however, that their relationship will be purely platonic. Robin frequently acts in a flirtatious manner toward Chrissy and Jo. The girls spurn his mildly lascivious advances and adapt to his presence in the flat. In an early episode, however, Chrissy finds herself attracted to him, but resists the urge.
, 1h31Directed by Brian Clemens
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Horst Janson, John Carson, John Cater, Caroline Munro, Shane Briant, Wanda Ventham
When his village is plagued by mysterious deaths marked by highly accelerated aging, Dr. Marcus calls in his army friend, Captain Kronos. Kronos and his companion, the hunchback Hieronymus Grost, are professional vampire hunters. Grost explains to the initially sceptical Marcus that the dead women are victims of a vampire who drains not blood but youth, and that there are "as many species of vampire as there are beasts of prey." The discovery of another victim confirms Grost's explanation. Along the way, Kronos and Grost take in a local girl, Carla, who had been sentenced to the stocks for dancing on the Sabbath. She repays them by helping them hunt the vampire; she later becomes Kronos' lover.