Mrs Ardoy has a large family of children, some of whom are her stepchildren and some are fostered. When Sophia reads Powers' book and then discovers the belongings of the old couple who lived in the house before them, she seemingly becomes possessed. The story ends with Norman Shelley now rushing to his office that morning to break the 'good news' about his wife's 'departure' and desire to marry Lolly, but it is shown that she cannot understand anything being said. Mr Rayburn (James Laurenson) visits Shelley, saying he wishes to sell a desolate property named Lower Moat Manor through him. Film music composer David Winter (Jon Finch) lives with his actress wife Mary (Prunella Gee) in a secluded farmhouse. Janet notes that Martin is acting weirdly, and he has a long nail on his right hand. She notices Chuck's coat at the store and immediately goes to the local police but they simply advise her to wait a while longer for his return before they act. Men are being murdered in bed by a mysterious woman with a European accent whom they pick up. One night when Penny is alone, she is visited by Charles Willoughby (Stanley Lebor), who has come looking for Harry. Unfortunately Graham and Sarah's house is burgled and the fetish is stolen. Father Macintosh visits the house to help Edwin. Both doppelgangers attack Janet, when Mr Upity appears on scene and Janet blacks out. Though there no doubt thousands of different Vampires the following is a list of known species, The Vampire race that Dracula belonged to were the most common group of Vampires around Europe. Annie returns to help Chuck but is pushed into the cell by Martin, who closes the trapdoor. The lord and most powerful of Vampires was however Dracula who was often referred to as the "fountain head" of the cult of Vampirism. Dr Van Helsing mentions that the cult of vampirism may have begun with ancient pagan worship of demons and devils. The House of Hammer was a British magazine featuring articles on the Hammer Film Productions series of horror and science fiction films. Each self-contained episode features a different kind of horror. The sequence was based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1871 ‘Carmilla’; a novella which […] In the final Hammer Dracula film set in China, Dracula is played by John Forbes-Robertson. Vampire society's include. They find a large house in the woods, where the housekeeper Mrs Ardoy (Diana Dors) welcomes them and offers them shelter for the night. Martin finds the couple's house keys in Chuck's coat and visits their house. Picking up the kukri from the old house, she walks into her mother's bedroom and kills William as Emma screams in horror. Dracula regularly hypnotises people into obeying his every command through his stare. Emile also defeats several people who attack him at once, armed with cross bows and flaming torches. Dr. Holt's body is autopsied by Markham (Peter Birrel) and Dr Harris (Emrys James) who is very logical and jovial, with Edwin watching and it is learnt that Holt tried drilling a hole in his skull to liberate an evil virus invading his body, which led to Subdural hemorrhage and thereafter he died during surgery for the same. To save Sarah and himself, the remaining two people in the photograph, Graham goes to Heinz Hoffman (Marius Goring), his uncle's art dealer who first told them about Charlie Boy at the mansion. A relieved Janet goes back to the house to Martin, but is shocked to find his teeth decayed, implying that Martin is dead and the attacker was the doppelganger who took over Martin's persona. Hammer House of Horror is a British television series made in 1980. It is the second film in the so-called Karnstein Trilogy loosely based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla. They all had the ability to make people into Vampire like themselves through either biting or making the person consume their blood. Peter Cushing once more plays Doctor Van Helsing. But after Mark renegs on a business deal with him, Graham feels slighted. “You have to remember the context – it was the end of the 70s, which is … Instinctively, Tom follows Sarah to the woods. She puts her mark on the man now living in the farmhouse, while his wife tries to save him. Only those with the strongest will can withstand his power even in death Dracula claimed to still be able to control his servants claiming that "it was my will" as to why Johnny Alucard had ressurected him. The Circus of Knights, a large circus of Vampires and witches, they were led by the Vampire Emile and were affiliated with the bloodsucker Count Mitterhouse. In the nasty world of Hammer House of Horror, though, there was no guarantee even of that. https://hammerhouseofhorror.fandom.com/wiki/Vampires?oldid=3954, Dracula easily overpowers his servant Klove throwing him over the battlements of his castle as though he were a child, Dracula easily overpowers anyone who faces him in unarmed combat including trained Vampire hunter, Johnny Alucard despite only being a Vampire for a few days was able to overpower Vampire hunter. The House Of Hammer Today at 4:34 PM THE KISS OF THE VAMPIRE (1963/Hammer Films) Directed by Don Sharp ... with Clifford Evans as Professor Zimmer and … William's ghost and the plant then disappear and Laurie finds James lying on William's grave. [3], This article is about the television series. Film footages used: Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) Lust For a Vampire (1971) Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) The Horror of Dracula (1958) The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) As Tom Fallows writes: The release of The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957 was met with repulsion from serious critics appalled by its explicitness. The vampire threw his bride of Harker and thus revealed his true savage nature. It is revealed that Heinz had inadvertently given details about Charlie Boy to an old gangster friend of his, Peter Macardo, who wanted a fetish in order to deal with a rival gangster in Nigeria, and Macardo burgled Graham's house to get it. Chuck Spillers (Brian Cox) is released from prison after serving two years for burglary, with the help of an elderly pet shop owner Martin Blueck (Peter Cushing), who also gives him money and offers him a job in his shop. Framed pictures of various women in the house are also seen, apparently the mothers of the various children. James shows it to Laurie who becomes increasingly distraught. Chuck and his wife Annie (Elaine Donnelly) are thrilled with the offer. Shelley investigates the house a third time, and is welcomed by the ghost of old Lady Strudwick (Eleanor Summerfield), apparently the mistress of the manor. The Hammer House of Horror produced dozens of X-certificate horror romps in the sixties and seventies and their vampire movies were their most popular line. If they fail to adhere to this, they are fatally electrocuted. Many experts dismiss Garlic with Lorrimer stating that it is not always reliable and Father Sandor telling a villager that the cloves of garlic would not keep Dracula out. In come the police, Rayburn one among them, who says that Emily has been found killed and that "Shelley should not have killed her". Shelley and Lolly go to another apartment to discuss another sale, where they find that the place is desolate and is being demolished, with them stuck in it. Graham's elder brother Mark (Michael Culver) inherits the bulk of their uncle's estate, including his country mansion and his money. Again, he wakes up beside his wife and finds that he was having another nightmare within a nightmare. The local policeman questions Janet, who says she can't remember anything after the crash, but that the attacker had long nails in his right hand. Back home that night, Graham is still riled by the incident and playfully sticks a knife into Charlie Boy while thinking about Scarface. Margaret says she is not strong enough to fight Charlie, but an Indian Swami named Gupta Krishna can do it. Evidence of them taking place in the same canon comes from the fact that the main Vampire villain in Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter is referred to as a Karnstein, and also that Dracula is referenced in the film Countess Dracula. Finding their bedroom door locked, Tom climbs out of the window to investigate but falls while climbing the drainpipe. The Circus of knights vampires can shapeshift into giant panthers. The phone rings as she is leaving, and a voice identifying himself as 'Mr Rayburn' asks for Norman Shelley, saying 'he wants to sell property". These Vampires of the circus of knights were vulnerable to crosses stakes through the heart and direct sunlight. Martin observes the couple's activities and controls everything. Penny (Kathryn Leigh Scott) and Harry (Simon MacCorkindale) live in a secluded cottage. All Vampires are immortal. David Prowse, best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, appeared in the Hammer films The Horror of Frankenstein, Vampire Circus, and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. Van Helsing suspects that Dracula may have lived for five or six centuries. This makes her suspicious about his identity and she goes to see the dead body again in the hospital. Janet wakes up in hospital unharmed with her son, and is told that Martin underwent emergency neck surgery and cannot talk for the time being. Clifford and his colleagues suspect Natalie and search her entire house but find nothing. He falls into a trance like state, and sees his colleagues Dr Harris and Markham, Stella, a psychiatrist Dr Manders (Conrad Phillips), conspiring as an evil team wanting him to eat Stella's baby for the devil's sake. As Chuck and Annie figure out what to do, an exit opens in the cell wall leading outside. She prowls around late at night and finds a room with several carcasses being stored like an abattoir. Frantically Ruth runs to inform Andrew at the funeral home, but finds his corpse there, also killed by the funeral directors after he discovered their activities. Three years later in California, William and Emma (who is revealed to actually be a single parent) are rich and living together, with Sophia who is now older. It was released as a five-disc set, and features an animated stills gallery, episode introductions from film historian Shane M. Dallman, and featurettes including Grave Recollections: A Visit With Kathryn Leigh Scott and Hammer Housekeeping: A Visit With Mia Nadasi. Harker and Dracula wrestled but Harker was overcome by the count's strengh. For the film studio, see, "Hammer House of Horror – Pierce Brosnan, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott in 'The Complete Series: Collector's Edition, "Hammer House of Horror: The Complete Series [BLU-RAY]", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hammer_House_of_Horror&oldid=998231870, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Her boyfriend buries the body in the woods, but she continues to see the man in various places; this leads her to seek help from a. Mr Willis then appears and tells Ruth that he too was a survivor of the plane crash, before he kills her with a meat cleaver. Jack, a wealthy old man, dies under mysterious circumstances, after which his nephew Graham (Leigh Lawson) arrives to claim the art collection his uncle bequeathed to him. Vampires often lived together in packs and groups. Graham goes to Macardo's home to retrieve the fetish. Clifford questions him and Mrs. Henska, but decides they are innocent. There is no explanation for these events and throughout them all, James remains strangely calm and unemotional. In 2003 Channel 4 placed Hammer House of Horror at No. Dracula could assume the taoist monk Kai's form. She sees the clinic director Jack Rothwell (Kevin Stoney) taking one of the dismembered corpses in his car and follows him to a country mansion. Often Dracula would kill or abandon his brides if he tired of them aswell. Not all people they bite or kill become Vampires only those they wish to become Vampires will become one. After Charles leaves, Lucinda reappears and seduces David using witchcraft. There were many different types of Vampires with different powers, weaknesses, appearances and even motivations. She brings spine-chilling terror to the present-day occupants of the old farmhouse in which she lived. Tom confides to his colleague Harry about this and the preceding experiences, and Harry agrees with him that it is unlikely it was all a dream. She finds a voodoo doll which Lucinda made to cause her pain. They look at the gravestone which now says Terence Morton and his beloved son William. These vary from witches, werewolves and ghosts to devil-worship and voodoo, but also include non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers. Still shocked, Janet takes her son and moves to another house, collects all their belongings of the crash from the hospital, and burns it in the backyard. It is the first in the series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula. Ordinary metal cannot harm most vampires, at least one species could be killed by a blessed metal sharp piercing their heart. Edwin wakes up in the hospital, and is told by Harris and Dr Manders that he had an attack of severe delusion of persecution, and now he is better as he has responded to medication. She visits the local Rector (Lennard Pearce), who investigates and finds that there was a local witch named Lucinda Jessop who escaped being burnt at the stake in the year 1652 by Puritans who used to capture and execute witches by drowning or burning them. In the darkness, Terence falls into an open grave and is killed. Vampires cannot be killed by guns or bullets, unless it is a silver bullet. He says Ben's body was brought there and that similar accidents have occurred in the past as this one, and he thinks his employers are in some way connected with them. Peter Cushing also apeared in two other Hammer vampire films "the Vampire Lovers" and "Twins of Evil" Van Helsing appeared in Horror of Dracula, The Brides of Dracula, The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires and Dracula AD 1972, his grandson [also played by Cushing] appeared in Dracula AD 1972 and The Satanic rites of Dracula. [2], Having completed a "high-definition restoration" of the series, the UK's Network imprint released Hammer House of Horror for the first time on Blu-ray in October 2017. Laurie's car goes out of control as it passes the cemetery where William is buried, maggots miraculously appear in the Mortons' dinner, and a toy rabbit that Laurie gives to James becomes smeared with blood. He buries Charlie in the woods and disposes of Charlie's Range Rover into the lake nearby, and they remove all evidence of the incident. They run to the neighbor Mr Upity for help, where Janet hides in the stable from Martin's doppelganger, but then finds David there, who is now having decayed teeth and is a doppelganger of David. Others were not only aware of their existence but actively sought them out such as the Van Helsing Family and Captain Kronos. The next day, Mark dies after being impaled in a horse riding accident. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 . This Vampire was the most different species of Vampire. In the end it is shown that everything has quietened, Janet is being taken away by the hospital nurse in an ambulance as Martin, David and Upity bid her goodbye, and en route, Janet sees that the driver is her own doppelganger. However there were a very few exceptions to this, Baroness Meinster for example, was filled with self loathing after becomming a vampire and begged Van Helsing to stake her. During a children's party for Sophia's birthday, an overhead pipe breaks and blood sprays over all of the guests, triggering further panic. Holy water will also burn a Vampires skin like acid. But Tom thinks it was too real to be a dream. The 7 Golden Vampires were 7 very powerful and unique Chinese Vampires that terrorisied a small village in china for many years. Annie investigates the store at night and finds Chuck trapped in the cell, and runs to seek help. 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