hammerfilms &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:hammerfilms @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:40:56 +0200 The Mystery of the Mary Celeste [Phantom Ship] (Denison Clift, 1935) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-mystery-of-the-mary-celeste-1935 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Mystery of the Mary Celeste [Phantom Ship] (Denison Clift, 1935)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935)/div div class="caption" Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi). DPs: Eric Cross & Geoffrey Faithfull./div div class="txt" "No, I never left the wheel; not for a moment." ### – Anton Lorenzen /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #November #DenisonClift #BelaLugosi #ShirleyGrey #ArthurMargetson #EdmundWillard #EricCross #GeoffreyFaithfull #horror #mystery #MaryCeleste #GhostShip #HammerFilms #UK #1930s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste [Phantom Ship] (Denison Clift, 1935)

Nov

11

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935)

Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi). DPs: Eric Cross & Geoffrey Faithfull.

“No, I never left the wheel; not for a moment.”

– Anton Lorenzen

#FilmDuJour #November #DenisonClift #BelaLugosi #ShirleyGrey #ArthurMargetson #EdmundWillard #EricCross #GeoffreyFaithfull #horror #mystery #MaryCeleste #GhostShip #HammerFilms #UK #1930s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-mystery-of-the-mary-celeste-1935 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0100 The Mystery of the Mary Celeste [Phantom Ship] (Denison Clift, 1935) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0cm2 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Mystery of the Mary Celeste [Phantom Ship] (Denison Clift, 1935)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 23/div div class="occasion" Bela Lugosi/div div class="img" The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935)/div div class="caption" Anton Lorenzen (Lugosi) at Mary Celeste's wheel. DPs: Eric Cross & Geoffrey Faithfull./div div class="txt" [A favourite] Bela Lugosi film "No, I never left the wheel; not for a moment." ### – Anton Lorenzen A post-Dracula Lugosi demonstrates that he's more than the cursed aristocrat. An efficient early Hammer production, made just a year after their founding. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #DenisonClift #BelaLugosi #ShirleyGrey #ArthurMargetson #EdmundWillard #EricCross #GeoffreyFaithfull #horror #mystery #MaryCeleste #GhostShip #HammerFilms #UK #1930s ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste [Phantom Ship] (Denison Clift, 1935)

Oct

23

Bela Lugosi

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935)

Anton Lorenzen (Lugosi) at Mary Celeste's wheel. DPs: Eric Cross & Geoffrey Faithfull.

[A favourite] Bela Lugosi film*

“No, I never left the wheel; not for a moment.”

– Anton Lorenzen

A post-Dracula Lugosi demonstrates that he's more than the cursed aristocrat. An efficient early Hammer production, made just a year after their founding.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #DenisonClift #BelaLugosi #ShirleyGrey #ArthurMargetson #EdmundWillard #EricCross #GeoffreyFaithfull #horror #mystery #MaryCeleste #GhostShip #HammerFilms #UK #1930s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-0cm2 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:45:17 +0200 The Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling, 1966) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-plague-of-the-zombies-1966 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling, 1966)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 20/div div class="X" /div div class="img" The Plague of the Zombies (1966)/div div class="caption" A rather disgusting looking zombie carrying a young brunette in a flower dress. DP: Arthur Grant./div div class="txt" "I, I find all kinds of witchcraft slightly nauseating and this I find absolutely disgusting." ### – Sir James Forbes\ /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #JohnGilling #AndréMorell #DianeClare #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #HammerFilms #horror #zombies #voodoo #UK #1960s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

The Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling, 1966)

Aug

20

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

A rather disgusting looking zombie carrying a young brunette in a flower dress. DP: Arthur Grant.

“I, I find all kinds of witchcraft slightly nauseating and this I find absolutely disgusting.”

– Sir James Forbes

#FilmDuJour #August #JohnGilling #AndréMorell #DianeClare #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #HammerFilms #horror #zombies #voodoo #UK #1960s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-plague-of-the-zombies-1966 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200 X the Unknown (Leslie Norman + Joseph Losey, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/x-the-unknown-1956 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" X the Unknown (Leslie Norman + Joseph Losey, 1956)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" scoff/div div class="img" X the Unknown (1956)/div div class="caption" Two soldiers on nightshift ready to eat. One of them hands a mess tin with grub to the other when there's a sound. DP: Gerald Gibbs./div div class="txt" – What's that? – Tea. ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #LeslieNorman #JosephLosey #DeanJagger #JamesBernard #GeraldGibbs #horror #SciFi #HammerFilms #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

X the Unknown (Leslie Norman + Joseph Losey, 1956)

Oct

24

scoff

X the Unknown (1956)

Two soldiers on nightshift ready to eat. One of them hands a mess tin with grub to the other when there's a sound. DP: Gerald Gibbs.

– What's that? – Tea.

#FilmDinner #LeslieNorman #JosephLosey #DeanJagger #JamesBernard #GeraldGibbs #horror #SciFi #HammerFilms #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/x-the-unknown-1956 Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:02:32 +0200 The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-damned-1962 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" National Automatic Door Day/div div class="img" The Damned (1962)/div div class="caption" An 11-year old boy, Henry (Kit Williams), opens a featureless door in a rock surface for a drenched King (Oliver Reed). DP: Arthur Grant./div div class="txt" An American tourist visiting Dorset is tricked by a prostitute, then falls victim to a youth gang controlled by volatile con King – a still very green Oliver Reed at his meanest. The trickster is King's sister, who confides in the American hoping to escape her brother's incestuous advances.\ "I'm strange, all right! I'll show you just how strange I am!" ### – King\ ##### The couple elopes to a nearby island, closely followed by King and his gang, where they find a group of #children, all contently living in an underground lab, with #AutomaticDoors only they can control. &nbsp; They are the damned./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalAutomaticDoorDay #JosephLosey #HLLawrence #MacdonaldCarey #ShirleyAnneField #OliverReed #KitWilliams #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #drama #SciFi #romance #bikers #ColdWar #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #Dorset #UK #1960s ★★★★½ /div /section ]]>

The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962)

Mar

19

National Automatic Door Day

The Damned (1962)

An 11-year old boy, Henry (Kit Williams), opens a featureless door in a rock surface for a drenched King (Oliver Reed). DP: Arthur Grant.

An American tourist visiting Dorset is tricked by a prostitute, then falls victim to a youth gang controlled by volatile con King – a still very green Oliver Reed at his meanest. The trickster is King's sister, who confides in the American hoping to escape her brother's incestuous advances.

“I'm strange, all right! I'll show you just how strange I am!”

– King

The couple elopes to a nearby island, closely followed by King and his gang, where they find a group of #children, all contently living in an underground lab, with #AutomaticDoors only they can control.

 

They are the damned.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalAutomaticDoorDay #JosephLosey #HLLawrence #MacdonaldCarey #ShirleyAnneField #OliverReed #KitWilliams #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #drama #SciFi #romance #bikers #ColdWar #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #Dorset #UK #1960s ★★★★½

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