Welcome to the Hammer Factory. This month we dissect Demons of the Mind (1972).
While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the public eye, resurrecting the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy in vivid color, the studio invited performers like Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt and so many more to step into the genre limelight. Spanning a library housing over 300 films, Hammer Studios is a key part of horror history that until recently has been far too difficult to track down.
In late 2018, Shout Factory’s Scream Factory line began to focus on bringing Hammer’s titles to disc in the US, finally making many of the studio’s underseen gems available in packages that offered great...
While Hammer Studios has been in business since 1934, it was between 1955 and 1979 that it towered as one of the premier sources of edgy, gothic horror. On top of ushering the famous monsters of Universal’s horror heyday back into the public eye, resurrecting the likes of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy in vivid color, the studio invited performers like Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt and so many more to step into the genre limelight. Spanning a library housing over 300 films, Hammer Studios is a key part of horror history that until recently has been far too difficult to track down.
In late 2018, Shout Factory’s Scream Factory line began to focus on bringing Hammer’s titles to disc in the US, finally making many of the studio’s underseen gems available in packages that offered great...
- 5/18/2023
- by Paul Farrell
- bloody-disgusting.com
Release Date: April 8 (limited)
Director: Derick Martini
Writer: Derick and Steven Martini
Cinematographer: Frank Godwin
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon
Studio/Run Time: Screen Media Films, 95 mins.
Good cast and familiar themes for first-time director
Think of it as The Ice Storm lite—there’s less sex, drugs and angst, but the themes are the same. Living on Long Island in the late ’70s, Scott (Rory Culkin) is an awkward 15-year-old boy with a bully problem and a long-standing crush on his best friend, Adrianna. Scott’s successful father (Baldwin) is sleeping with his secretary (Nixon), who also happens to be Adrianna’s mother; Scott’s own mother (Hennessy) is reaching the end of her rope; and Scott’s brother (Kieran Culkin) is on a brief leave from the military. Meanwhile, the deer-tick epidemic has left Adrianna’s father (Hutton) suffering from Lyme disease,...
Director: Derick Martini
Writer: Derick and Steven Martini
Cinematographer: Frank Godwin
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin, Rory Culkin, Jill Hennessy, Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon
Studio/Run Time: Screen Media Films, 95 mins.
Good cast and familiar themes for first-time director
Think of it as The Ice Storm lite—there’s less sex, drugs and angst, but the themes are the same. Living on Long Island in the late ’70s, Scott (Rory Culkin) is an awkward 15-year-old boy with a bully problem and a long-standing crush on his best friend, Adrianna. Scott’s successful father (Baldwin) is sleeping with his secretary (Nixon), who also happens to be Adrianna’s mother; Scott’s own mother (Hennessy) is reaching the end of her rope; and Scott’s brother (Kieran Culkin) is on a brief leave from the military. Meanwhile, the deer-tick epidemic has left Adrianna’s father (Hutton) suffering from Lyme disease,...
- 5/1/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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