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Written by James M. Tate / 1/14/2025 / No comments / charles gray , christopher lee , hammer films , horror , nike arrighi , occult , sixties , terence fisher

CHRISTOPHER LEE STOKING HAMMER'S 'THE DEVIL RIDES OUT'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgezbGgOAq2Z1a1EecqiOOsCMCyxXARxFhGG8_euxEFJ7rulauI6nEY9YGVP243X_cuN_4JYFrTcPIKNZ3iLDB7GKM0VGCbPEAwJoiHWDbyD49-zcXsic-BIJAWjV3HmaPsfZ6UTg5h0SeF42_PJywaCRNm-GJ98N7rILeaXT_2niq7Tcp9iB2UquGCt-g4/s1734/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-11%20at%201.00.35%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="1734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgezbGgOAq2Z1a1EecqiOOsCMCyxXARxFhGG8_euxEFJ7rulauI6nEY9YGVP243X_cuN_4JYFrTcPIKNZ3iLDB7GKM0VGCbPEAwJoiHWDbyD49-zcXsic-BIJAWjV3HmaPsfZ6UTg5h0SeF42_PJywaCRNm-GJ98N7rILeaXT_2niq7Tcp9iB2UquGCt-g4/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-11%20at%201.00.35%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Lee & Nike Arrighi in The Devil Rides Out/The Devil's Bride Year: 1968 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>In two of Hammer legend Christopher Lee's favorite Hammer movies, he's a regular fella, not a monster or killer... although in the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/07/2F.html">THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL</a> he's a double-crossing scoundrel, having sex with his titular best friend's wife and suffering constant gambling debts that he talks the initially vulnerable cuckold into paying... Yet in THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, with the same director in Hammer staple Terence Fisher, he's actually the hero... and it was Lee's own persistence to bring author Dennis Wheatley's occult novel to the big screen...

charles gray, christopher lee, hammer films, horror, nike arrighi, occult, sixties, terence fisher

CHRISTOPHER LEE STOKING HAMMER'S 'THE DEVIL RIDES OUT'

Christopher Lee & Nike Arrighi in The Devil Rides Out/The Devil's Bride Year: 1968 Rating: ** In two of Hammer legend Christopher Le...

Written by James M. Tate / 1/06/2025 / No comments / andria lawrence , body count , hammer films , horror , ingrid pitt , lesley-anne down , maurice denham , nigel green , nike arrighi , peter jeffrey , sandor elès , susan brodrick

INGRID PITT AS HAMMER'S 'COUNTESS DRACULA' WITH NIGEL GREEN

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7MD37uO-L_oJWNaEM-nhbRiYRni4NQCSTcaoafx6axk7G1EHu5SpYtAj_mmd3vXZL0FGv39_ztMP_10ImJYHl85bxY6Hgqs2YMQzdwTfnDRMuT9EsL0mv6tu49cQaVKwRZorxwTRcZTll7pgR3A05Ncilqu45VsPF3nj0Qo__cmC0BiBkZZmvF9dE_Xu/s2030/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-03%20at%2010.22.52%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="2030" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL7MD37uO-L_oJWNaEM-nhbRiYRni4NQCSTcaoafx6axk7G1EHu5SpYtAj_mmd3vXZL0FGv39_ztMP_10ImJYHl85bxY6Hgqs2YMQzdwTfnDRMuT9EsL0mv6tu49cQaVKwRZorxwTRcZTll7pgR3A05Ncilqu45VsPF3nj0Qo__cmC0BiBkZZmvF9dE_Xu/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-03%20at%2010.22.52%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: COUNTESS DRACULA Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Hammer had a new neck-sucker in Ingrid Pitt after her tour-de-force performance in THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, and the title COUNTESS DRACULA refers not to her character or Dracula but a real life countess she's based on... Yet the plot of a haggard rich woman needing blood from virgins to make her young and beautiful... but only for relatively small periods of time as she steals love with an otherwise oblivious handsome man, hiding away after turning even older and uglier each time... borrows straight from the decade-earlier b-movie <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/LeechW.html">THE LEECH WOMAN</a>...

andria lawrence, body count, hammer films, horror, ingrid pitt, lesley-anne down, maurice denham, nigel green, nike arrighi, peter jeffrey, sandor elès, susan brodrick

INGRID PITT AS HAMMER'S 'COUNTESS DRACULA' WITH NIGEL GREEN

Title: COUNTESS DRACULA Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 Hammer had a new neck-sucker in Ingrid Pitt after her tour-de-force performance in THE VAM...

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