BRIDES easily holds up as my favorite Hammer film. So many great elements—the performances by Cushing, Martita Hunt and Freda Jackson, the unsettling presence of David Peel, the coffin/lock scene, the vampire birth in the cemetery, the vibrant color, the fairy tale ambiance. The script flaws are there but they don’t really matter. In its own crazy, dream logic way, the this film still works.