Hammer House of Horror

Lobo Baggins · 06 March, 2005, 01:06:34 AM

Digital freeview channel ITV3 is putting on the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, starting at 11pm this evening (Saturday).

Watch it - or miss it, it's entirely up to you...

ARRISARRIS · 06 March, 2005, 12:56:12 PM

...vaguely remember this, also remember it being bloody scary, well i was 12ish, wonder how its stood the test of time?...

Smiley · 06 March, 2005, 02:29:56 PM

Couldn't ever remember seeing last night's Witching Hour first time round, it was that rubbish (some "how 70's is that" fun included an orange TR7 and Prunella Gee's skimpies, that was about it.)

Still, there's plenty of other good un's.

Lobo Baggins · 07 March, 2005, 02:13:57 AM

Couldn't ever remember seeing last night's Witching Hour first time round, it was that rubbish (some "how 70's is that" fun included an orange TR7 and Prunella Gee's skimpies, that was about it.)

Heh - I particularly liked the 17th century witch's fashionable 1970's ginger perm.

Byron Virgo · 07 March, 2005, 09:36:34 PM

Best one's the one with Peter Cushing and Brian Cox - the Silent Scream, if memory serves.

LARF · 08 March, 2005, 12:28:08 AM

I rem. one where they set up this guys wife to think she killed one of his mates in an accident, rem him sat in a white rangerover with half his face off?

LARF · 08 March, 2005, 12:34:15 AM

Link: http://homepages.tesco.net/~dr.phibes/" target="_blank">Hammer House of Horror

Quirkafleeg · 08 March, 2005, 03:11:28 AM

If you do a search there's another Hammer House of Horror themed thread... lots of boarder have fond (and downright scary) memories of it...

GordonR · 08 March, 2005, 03:25:17 AM

Put away those rose-tinted spectacles - they're mostly pretty awful. More or less Hammer's last gasp, with not much but the name to trade on, and it shows.

A friend had most of them on video a couple of years ago - age definitely hasn't favoured them. Cheap, corny and horribly padded out.

Now Armchair Thriller (or was it 'Chiller'?) - they were pretty downright terrifying.

Or, even better, Nigel Kneale's Beasts series. I'd love to see that again.

Wils · 08 March, 2005, 03:47:20 AM

Now Armchair Thriller (or was it 'Chiller'?)

Was that the one that showed the Thames TV logo at night before it started and the titles ended with a creepy silhouette on a wall of someone sat in a chair? If so, it used to scare the living shit out of me when I was little.

I remember some Tales of the Unexpected being quite creepy as well.

GordonR · 08 March, 2005, 03:50:11 AM

That's the one.

Remember the faceless nun in the rocking chair? Yikes!

Wils · 08 March, 2005, 03:55:48 AM

I do now! Thanks a bunch, Gordon. ;)

Richmond Clements · 08 March, 2005, 04:00:47 AM

Man, that nun scared the shit out of me as a child.
Still gives me the creeps even now.

Wils · 08 March, 2005, 04:01:29 AM

http://www.angelfire.com/hero/nero0/pin/clips.html" target="_blank">Mpegs of the title sequences and the faceless nun

[Shudder]

Quirkafleeg · 08 March, 2005, 04:34:39 AM

heh... well one of the reasons I've not got it on dvd is I suspect I'll ruin my childhood memories of it.

There was an obscure similar series called West Country Tales - there was one about a 'man' hiding in this blokes coalshed. Now that really shit me up and I suspect it would today.