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flashback	new hammer studio	Lead	[-]
May 11 12 1:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i know most of us have a great love for the classic hammer films of old.what is your opinion of the current hammer studio? do you like it?does it seem like it should not be hammer studios because the feel is wrong?what do you think? i only saw one movie the new hammer studio put out as far as i know.it was just another horror movie not better then most.certainly not an event film like hammer put out by the previous generation. what do you think?
rjesimpson		#1	[-]
May 11 12 4:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What film did you see? Not sure I would say the old Hammer films were "event" films.
lencandraw		#2	[-]
May 11 12 4:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hammer being "event" films makes sense if you are a Hammer fan I would think. I think the new look Hammer is pretty darn good. WAKE WOOD was very good, and LET ME IN was excellent. The budgets were low and the production values were very high, just like the old days! Looking forward to seeing THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Another similarity- remakes and television inspired film. Now, if you asked me the same question after BEYOND THE RAVE was produced, I'da said these guys needed to go away- that little e-film was horrible.
flashback		#3	[-]
May 11 12 5:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i don`t know which one i saw .it was online and i can`t remember the title but i remember the new hammer studio made it.it had a woman and her boyfriend/husband /brother(i am not sure who he was)menaced by some guy in a house they were trapped in. when i said event film i did not mean one everyone went WOW when it came out but if you were a horror fan in those days there was a good chance you found it more special then many other horror movies.
Rick		#4	[-]
May 11 12 5:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	when i said event film i did not mean one everyone went WOW when it came out but if you were a horror fan in those days there was a good chance you found it more special then many other horror movies. I think that was true. I can remember being very excited whenever a new Hammer film (usually a double-feature) came to town. The new Hammer films so far are: BEYOND THE RAVE WAKE WOOD THE RESIDENT LET ME IN WOMAN IN BLACK I haven't seen BEYOND THE RAVE, but the movie you described seeing doesn't sound like any of the others. (Haven't seen WOMAN IN BLACK, either, but I know the story) Personally, I think New Hammer is doing pretty well. THE RESIDENT wasn't good, but it wasn't a terrible embarrassment. Just a routine misfire. WAKE WOOD was quite strong, and LET ME IN was even better. It was the rare remake that just about matched the wonderful original.
lencandraw		#5	[-]
May 12 12 9:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I agree 100% with Rick. BEYOND THE RAVE was a made-for-internet serialization of a story concerning some war vets off to a rave party that is loaded with vampires (or something to that effect). Ingrid Pitt makes a appearance, and the movie is loaded with gore and profanity, including the saying of the word, "cun*" more times than I have ever heard in my entire 43 years of life. I found the movie difficult to sit through and never made it to the end. It was vile.
kmntopanga		#6	[-]
May 12 12 12:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sounds like you are describing The Resident. I think the film was a miscalculation, though not a fatal one. The marquee value of Swank is negligable; the story is overly familiar; the sole innovation is the introduction of a nail gun as weapon. It had routine programmer written all over it. For a company that's trying to establish an identity, such a flat entry that goes straight to DVD and VOD is not a good move. However, I think the new Hammer gets pretty high marks for its respectful handling of the brand, commitment to quality product and looking very much like a viable company -- with The Quiet Ones, Gaslight, Boneshaker, Winchester Mystery House project and a Woman in Black sequel in various stages of development or pre-production.
flashback		#7	[-]
May 12 12 1:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	woman in black looks very promising from the trailer. lethal weapon 2 or 3 introduced the nailgun as a weapon.
Rick		#8	[-]
May 12 12 2:07 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, if we must chronicle such things -- Cameron Mitchell put his nail gun to deadly use in '78's THE TOOLBOX MURDERS.
flashback		#9	[-]
May 12 12 2:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i forgot about that use of the nailgun.
kmntopanga		#10	[-]
May 12 12 8:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I signed in just to see what nail-gun epics I was ignorant of. Enjoyed it greatly. Thanks guys.
flashback		#11	[-]
May 27 12 5:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i saw the woman in black and really enjoyed it.how does it compare to the other output from the new hammer studio?
Slyfox		#12	[-]
May 28 12 12:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Let Me In is quite good, on a par with the original version, and deserved to do so much better at the box office. Wake Wood is above average with a clever story, okay acting and some gruesome bits. Just don't expect too much from it. The Resident was pretty blah, even with the (too) brief bit by Christopher Lee. Haven't seen and won't bother with Beyond the Rave after all the negative things I've read about it. For me, The Woman in Black is the best of Hammer's recent output, comparing favorably with their original body of work. Long on atmosphere and chills, without a lot of cheap shock effects and excessive gore. Given how good it was, and its success at the box office, I have high expectations for Hammer's future output.
flashback		#13	[-]
May 28 12 1:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i hope they put out more things as good as the woman in black.they gave themselves a big threshold of expitations with the name hammer studios.i hope it successfuly inspires them to put out great horror.
lencandraw		#14	[-]
May 28 12 2:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Just saw THE RESIDENT. Thought it was decent myself, though not nearly as good as the others; fits right along with their thriller output in the past. Lee's bit was cut off in an odd manner. Interesting in that the ending was the way it was- kind of harkened back to an earlier time of film making, when the flick ended at the death of the monster. BEYOND THE RAVE is nothing like the other films. Nothing. The others have a touch of class that this doesn't.
MacXoftheMounted		#15	[-]
May 28 12 2:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Let Me In was fantastic. Wake Wood was definitely enjoyable. Woman In Black was fairly good, but very lightweight compared to the 89 version. MacXoftheMounted.....................formerly known as Professor Von X
lencandraw		#16	[-]
May 28 12 2:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE, to be filmed soon, seems interesting... GASLIGHT sounds very cool.
flashback		#17	[-]
Jun 11 12 11:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i am 50 minuites into let me in on encore.yeah i am up till 1:30 am. i liked the passing train scene.it was very effective.i will decide what i think after it is done. i think my problem is when i think hammer studio horror i think over the edge gothic atmosphere.even the then contemporary hammer horror (dracula in the early 70`s)had that feel carried over some)i know i need to adjust to modern times and realize those old days are gone.i am working on it.
flashback		#18	[-]
Jun 12 12 12:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i liked let me in.it wasn`t great but it was good and had some real effective moments.
bgart13.thelatarniaforums		#19	[-]
Jun 12 12 12:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hammer posted today on FB that THE QUIET ONES has started principal photography. Kundun Rat Terrier: 8/16/02 - 3/26/11. RIP, Ku.
flashback		#20	[-]
Jun 12 12 3:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	the quiet ones could be pretty good from the description.i am develpoing a better apprication of the new hammer studio.

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