HAMMER STARS: THE FACES OF HAMMER GALLERY THEBLACKBOXCLUB

HERE ARE SOME FACES WE HAVE GROWN TO KNOW AND APPRECIATE OVER THE YEARS, WHILE WATCHING OUR FAVOURITE HAMMER FILMS.

THERE ARE SOME OBVIOUS GAPS HERE. BUT TELL US WHO YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE INCLUDED IN THE FACES OF HAMMER GALLERY!


PLEASE LEAVE YOUR SUGGESTION IN THE COMMENT BOX BELOW.



A GALLERY OF HAMMER FILMS HEROES AND VILLIANS PART ONE

JUST A SLICE THEN, OF ROGUES, MONSTERS. MAD MEN AND SAINTS FROM THE HAMMER STABLE. MOST IMAGES HERE WILL UPLOAD WITH A LEFT CLICK ON THE IMAGE, FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER LEFT CLICK  OF YOUR MOUSE, WHICH WILL BRING IT INTO SUPER SIZE. A VERY LARGE VERSION OF THE IMAGE YOU SEE HERE. MOST OF THE TILLS HERE HAVE BEEN UPLOADED IN HI RES.

WHAT A TREAT!

NEXT UP A 30 IMAGE GALLERY: THE FACES OF HAMMER.

ACTORS, ACTRESSES, DIRECTORS AND CREWS FROM THE HAMMER ERA OF 1955 UP TO THE PRESENT DAY.

 

 

PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE: THE LAST MEETING IMAGES AND THE RADIO TIMES

MAY 1994. THE LAST TIME PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE WOULD WORK

TOGETHER. THE LOCATION, A RECORDING STUDIO IN CANTERBURY, KENT, ENGLAND.

THE OLD FIRM OF CUSHING AND LEE PROVIDE THE NARRATION FOR THE TED NEWSOM DOCUMENTARY: FLESH AND BLOOD: THE HAMMER HERITAGE OF HORROR.

IT HAD BEEN SOMETIME SINCE CUSHING HAD APPEARED IN PUBLIC. NO ONE EXCEPT HIS PERSONAL ASSISTANT JOYCE BROUGHTON AND CHRISTOPHER LEE KNEW HOW TERRIBLY ILL CUSHING WAS AT THIS TIME. THE CANCER HE HAD FOUGHT SO WELL, FOR SO LONG, HAD RETURNED.

DESPITE THIS, CUSHING INSISTED ON MAKING THE SHEDULED RECORDING.

HIS MOOD WAS BRIGHT THROUGH OUT THE DAY, JOKING AND AD LIBBING WITH LEE. BUT THE EXERTIONS WOULD PUT HIM HIM IN BED FOR TWO DAYS AFTERWARDS.

FOUR MONTHS LATER IN AUGUST WHEN THE FIRST PART OF THE DOCUMENTARY WAS BROADCAST, CUSHING WAS ADMITTED TO THE PILGRIMS HOSPICE AT CANTERBURY.

AFTER TWO WEEKS IN THE HOSPICE AND BETWEEN THE TWO INSTALMENTS OF FLESH AND BLOOD, THE LONG FIGHT WITH HIS ILLNESS CAME TO ITS END.PETER CUSHING DIED ON THURSDAY 11TH AUGUST 1994.

THEBLACKBOXCLUB.COM WEBSITE WILL BE POSTING A FEATURE BASED ON THE FINAL WEEKS OF PETER CUSHING'S LIFE. ALONG WITH SEVERAL NEW AND UNSEEN IMAGES, WILL BE MORE IMAGES FROM THE FLESH AND BLOOD RECORDING SESSION AND WHAT COULD BE THE LAST IMAGE, TAKEN CANDIDLY, OF LEE AND CUSHING TOGETHER.

IN THE MEANTIME, ENJOY THESE IMAGES OF THE BOYS LAST MEET. ALONG WITH A COPY OF THE INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE FROM THE RADIO TIMES AND IT'S TERRIFIC COVER.

HAMMER FILMS MICHAEL RIPPER INTERVIEW ONLY ON THEBLACKBOXCLUB.COM PODCAST

ONE OF THE FIRST INTERVIEWS THAT THEBLACKBOXCLUB CONDUCTED. RECORDED IN MICHAEL'S BASEMENT STUDY IN ISLINGTON, LONDON, BACK IN THE 1980'S. ON THE DAY, MICHAEL HAD ANSWERED THE FRONT OF HIS HOME SINGING WITH HEADPHONES ON. LEADING US DOWN THE HALLWAY AND BEING SHOWN INTO HIS BASEMENT STUDY, WE SOON SAW WHAT A HUGE MUSIC FAN HE WAS. THE WALLS WERE HOLDING WHOLE LINES OF RACKS THAT CONTAINED MUSIC CASSETTES. ALL FILED AND CATALOGUED.

FOR THE NEXT FOUR HOURS, WITH MICHAEL'S HOMEBREW TO OIL THE TONGUE HE TOLD US ABOUT HIS EARLY CAREER, THE LOSS OF LIVE THEATRE WORK AND HIS TIME WITH HAMMER FILMS.

HERE ARE A FEW IMAGES OF MICHAEL, ALONG WITH ONE OR TWO RARELY SEEN SNAPS FROM HAMMER FILMS DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE. MICHAEL'S INTERVIEW WILL APPEAR AS PART OF THEBLACKBOXCLUB HAMMER DRACULA MONTH CELEBRATION AND YOU CAN HEAR IT ON THEBLACKBOXCLUB RADIO SHOW AND POD CAST SOON. LOOK OUT FOR UP DATES.

HAMMER FILMS :BEHIND THE SCENES AND ON SET DRACULA AD 1972 PART TWO: THEBLACKBOXCLUB.COM

A FEW MORE MORE TO THE POT! HERE'S SOME IMAGES OF BOTH PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE DURING THE MAKING OF DRACULA AD 1972. ALL IMAGES APPEAR HERE, AS ALWAYS WITH WATERMARKS, BUT WILL BE MINUS THE WATERMARKS WHEN THEY APPEAR ON THE BLACKBOXCLUB.COM WEBSITE DURING HAMMER DRACULA MONTH.

SOPHIE ALDRED INTERVIEW: JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED!

DR WHO. ACE. SYLVESTER. MONSTERS.

HEAR SOPHIE ALDRED ON

THE BLACKBOXCLUB RADIO SHOW AND PODCAST SOON.