Tag Archive for 'Ingrid Pitt'
October 26th, 2023 by Brandon Peters
Like many a Studio Canal title on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray, Lionsgate has released their version of the folk horror legend, The Wicker Man, in the United States. Hitting shelves at Best Buy on October 17th, it comes in collectible steelbook packaging. In addition to the new restoration, the release features a nice slew of new […]
January 3rd, 2022 by Brandon Peters
For a few years now, Scream Factory has become the premiere spot for cranking out the Hammer Horror catalog onto Blu-ay. Long releasing at miniscule efforts, since they’ve stepped in, both the quantity and quality of what is coming from the history of one of horror’s most legendary studios has been a relief and a […]
November 17th, 2021 by Brandon Peters
A diabolical female vampire ravages the young girls and other townsfolk of a peaceful hamlet in eighteenth century Europe in revenge for the killing of her fellow vampires years earlier. A rousing hunt for the vampiress ensues as a group of men follow her bloody trail of terror through the countryside. Adapted from J. Sheridan […]
April 17th, 2018 by Brandon Peters
When it comes to the notable classic horror studios or collaborations of the 1960s and early 1970s, we immediately lean toward Hammer Films, American International Pictures, the Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe films, the works of Mario Bava and more. And included in that “more” is definitely Amicus Productions. Not that people aren’t immediately thinking […]
March 21st, 2018 by Brandon Peters
Vampires! Voodoo! Vixens! Victims! Terror waits for you in every room. A quartet of frightening fables is presented in The House That Dripped Blood, which comes to Blu-ray for the first time on May 8, 2018. . . .
May 10th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
Synapse Films has released another film in their Hammer Horror Collection. This time its the Ingrid Pitt-led Countess Dracula, a movie from the later days of the Hammer films classic run. Ingrid Pitt comes into it following her turn in The Vampire Lovers. Hammer tells this tale of horror, basing it off of the actual […]
March 25th, 2014 by Brandon Peters
The Hammer library is slowly creeping out into Blu-ray. It’s wild that there’s only one Christopher Lee Dracula film out there, but I have no idea what the rights situations are with those. Synapse Films, however, they’ve got ahold of one. It’s Countess Dracula, which is actually based somewhat around true events. Its coming as […]