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The most common and memorable ones have been mentioned all ready (much love for Cushing's downright evil take on Frankenstein, it's nothing like most versions but it's a whole lot of fun; The Devil Rides Out is probably Christopher Lee's finest leading horror considering he's more of a cameo/side character in The Wicker Man) so gonna mention a couple of favourites not brought up yet. Not sure if they were actually Hammer, might be Amicus ones too but hey ho. From Beyond The Grave A series of short stories linked around an antiques shop run by kindly old Peter. Each story basically amounts to someone coming in, seeing something they like and trying to con the shopkeeper out of it/outright steal it when he's not looking. Naturally, each item in the shop is actually a diabolical magical relic of some kind that brings doom on the owner in one way or another. The final story starred Ian Ogilvy, a likeable actor popular at the time for The Saint series and Witchfinder General (another classic horror tale with Vincent Price in full on megabastard mode). Because it was him, I was actually quite upset to see him get his comeuppance... He buys an old, demonic looking door from the shop, installs it at home and he and his wife find it can open to a creepy room with some kind of murderous psycho pirate guy or something. They're frantically trying to fight him off and escape and the story cuts to Peter in the shop, counting the money he was paid for it. Turns out the customer was an honest man who paid the agreed price so he and his wife manage to escape alive and unscathed, unlike everyone else before them - hurrah! Horror Express Not Hammer but it may as well be. Peter and Chris team up with Telly Savalas (playing a Cossack!) on a trans-Siberian train ride with The Thing on board. It goes from host to host, boiling brains, making zombies out of its victims and generally being rather unpleasant. It's exactly as glorious as it sounds.
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