Hammer House Of Horror - TV Series

[chrisnurse]

Has anyone ever seen the Hammer House Of Horror TV series?  They terrified me as a kid and I found them released on DVD. Some of them are still pretty scary, despite having aged badly. They have a great Hammer feel throughout.

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/107444/Hammer-House-Of-Horror-Complete-TV-Series/Product.html

[raycastile]

I've got this DVD set.  I think I watched 2/3 of the episodes.  I don't remember any of them.  I was hoping for more of a 50s/60s Cushing/Lee gothic Hammer feeling.

[chrisnurse]

I think they were made at the tail end of the Hammer glory years. They do have a different feel for sure. I love them; terrible mostly, but good fun. 'The house that bled' terrified me as a kid, that and 'Salem's lot', plus living near a huge Victorian graveyard made sure I never slept for years.

[Bogey]

that and 'Salem's lot', plus living near a huge Victorian graveyard made sure I never slept for years.

Salem's lot alone did me in.....add a graveyard and I would have been an early resident.  What was like on Halloween around your stomping grounds, Chris?

[chrisnurse]

Salem's lot alone did me in.....add a graveyard and I would have been an early resident.  What was like on Halloween around your stomping grounds, Chris?

Terrifying but exhilarating! The graveyard is quite old, and pretty big. Plus it was built on a pre-Christian Pagan site of religious significance. I grew up in a small place – so there were only 6-7 kids. At Halloween it was customary to annoy the residents of the village with trick or treating and then head down to the graveyard to run riot. We all saw some pretty strange stuff down there! The graveyard started at the end of our street.