Ascoyne D'Ascoyne

I have heard that a huge DVD release of over thirty Hammer films is being planned.
My informant (who heard it from the friend of a friend) tells me that some rare titles are to be included and mentioned "Tender Dracula" (which I hadn't realised was a Hammer release).
I've tried a web search to see if I can find out anything about this but have come up with nothing. Is this just a heinously wicked and untrue rumour or are there really devilish plans a-foot to scare us witless with this Gargantuan release?

JamesM

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I do not think your friend could right about 'Tender Dracula'.

The full list of titles is

The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), The Nanny (1965), She (1965), One Million Years BC (1966), Raputin: The Mad Monk (1966), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), Plague of the Zombies (1966), The Reptile (1966), The Witches (1966), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Slave Girls (1967), The Devil Rides Out (1968), Vengeance of She (1968), Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Scars of Dracula (1970), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), Demons of the Mind (1972), Fear in the Night (1972) and To the Devil a Daughter (1976).

There are to be no extras but there will be individual releases. I do not think the boxset will sell that well as some films have been released before, it's expensive and there are no additional features.

smudge

Have to agree James - this one will end up being easy pickings in the Jan sales, I bet.

Yet still can't get the Hammer Noir set out of Amazon US...

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

julian_craster

I would like to see a DVD release of the Hammer musical shorts of the 1950s made at Elstree (3 x 30 min films, in stereo, colour and CinemaScope) featuring Alma Cogan, Cyril Stapleton, Eric Winstone and the like....

Could DD Video oblige ?

ChristineCB

In the USA, I've had Reptile, Q'Mass & Pit, Rasputin and the usually-overlooked Evil Of Frankenstein on DVD for more than a year now. I presume this box-set announcement is a bundling as well as releasing several previously-unreleased films?

I was hoping to find THE GORGON finally released. And the rest of the Q'Mass films, which have made American TV during the last 2 years.

I was thinking of The Vulture and The Deadly Bees were Hammer films, but I guess not. I just remember them having so many of the same sets, painted backdrops and supporting cast.