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Hammer films watched in my life so far

2025-01-19T17:55:24Z

I did something I've been meaning to do for a while today: grabbed Wikipedia's list of Hammer films and went thought it bolding all the ones I'd seen and additionally noting those I've seen in the cinema (well - on a big screen, not always in a traditional cinema). The answers are that I've seen 68 out of 175, mainly but not exclusively gothic horrors, of which 16 on the big screen. I am not going to try to link from this list to the other posts where I have reviewed many of them here. That's too big a task. But I will keep updating this post as I go along!

( Complete list under here )

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Films watched 2023

2024-02-11T20:38:38Z

So help me, it's a list of every single film I watched in 2023. I've put notes where I could remember anything particular about the film or the viewing circumstances, but haven't tried to do that consistently. This is more about record-keeping than reviewing now.

1. Dracula (1958), dir. Terence Fisher - deliberately chosen as our first film of the New Year so we'd be starting it out right!

2. Fright Night 2 (1988), dir. Tommy Lee Wallace

3. Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968), dir. Freddie Francis

4. Hellboy II (2008), dir. Guillermo del Toro

5. The Vampire Bat (1933), dir. Frank R. Strayer

6. Vampire in Venice / Nosferatu a Venezia (1988), dir. Augusto Caminito - would be an amazing film about decay and ageing, if it didn't also have Klaus Kinski being actively peedy in it.

7. Caligula (1979), dir. Tinto Brass, Giancarlo Lui and Bob Guccione - the fullest, unexpurgated version, seen at Wharf Chambers as a Pervert Pictures screening, complete with a contextualising introduction. It's the logical extreme of the decadent Rome trope.

8. The Company of Wolves (1984), dir. Neil Jordan

9. Dracula Bloodline (2013), dir. Jon Keeyes

10. The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964), dir. Michael Carreras

( There's another 94 under here )

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Films watched 2022: a catch-up

2024-01-01T21:46:28Z

Well, happy New Year LJ / DW! I hope anyone reading this had a lovely celebration last night and is starting 2024 in good spirits.

As recently as April 2023 (LJ / DW), I was still trying to catch up on writing anything at all about a massive backlog of films I'd watched, mainly with Joel. But I still had 30 films outstanding from 2022 at that point, and have now watched 104 in 2023.

There is no way on this earth I'm going to manage to write anything coherent or meaningful about all of those 134 movies now, so it is just going to have to be lists at this point. Maybe with the occasional explanatory note if there was something special about the viewing experience or I wrote something down at the time. Here we go:

( Thirty films watched in 2022 )

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