Hammer Box #1 - 5-DVD Box Set ( Quatermass II / The Quatermass Xperiment / Frankenstein Created Woman / Dracula: Prince of Darkness / Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter ) ( Quatermass 2 (Quatermass Two: Enemy from Space) / The Quatermass Experiment / Frankenstein Made Woman / Disciple of Dracula / Vampire Castle )

Hammer Box #1 - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Quatermass II / The Quatermass Xperiment / Frankenstein Created Woman / Dracula: Prince of Darkness / Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter
Alternate Title: Quatermass 2 (Quatermass Two: Enemy from Space) / The Quatermass Experiment / Frankenstein Made Woman / Disciple of Dracula / Vampire Castle
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
423 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Collectors Edition
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1955 - 1974 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Val Guest
Terence Fisher
Brian Clemens

Written By:
Nigel Kneale
Val Guest
Richard H. Landau
Anthony Hinds
Jimmy Sangster
Brian Clemens

Actors:
Brian Donlevy ..... Professor Bernard Quatermass
John Longden ..... Lomax (as John Longdon)
Sid James ..... Jimmy Hall (as Sydney James)
Bryan Forbes ..... Marsh
William Franklyn ..... Brand
Vera Day ..... Sheila
Charles Lloyd Pack ..... Dawson
Tom Chatto ..... Broadhead
John Van Eyssen ..... The P.R.O.
Percy Herbert ..... Gorman
Michael Ripper ..... Ernie
John Rae ..... McLeod
Marianne Stone ..... Secretary
Ronald Wilson ..... Young Man
Jane Aird ..... Mrs. McLeod
Betty Impey ..... Kelly
Lloyd Lamble ..... Inspector
John Stuart ..... Commissioner
Gilbert Davis ..... Banker
Joyce Adams ..... Woman M.P.
Edwin Richfield ..... Peterson
Howard Williams ..... Michaels
Phillip Baird ..... Lab. Assistant (as Philip Baird)
Robert Raikes ..... Lab. Assistant
John Fabian ..... Intern
George Merritt ..... Super
Arthur Blake ..... Constable
Michael Balfour ..... Harry
Leslie Crawford ..... Guard (uncredited)
Vernon Greeves ..... First Man (uncredited)
Jan Holden ..... Young Girl (uncredited)
Alastair Hunter ..... Labour MP (uncredited)
Barry Lowe ..... Chris (uncredited)
Henry Rayner ..... Drunk (uncredited)
Joan Schofield ..... Woman Shopper (uncredited)
Brian Donlevy ..... Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Jack Warner ..... Insp. Lomax
Margia Dean ..... Mrs. Judith Carroon
Thora Hird ..... Rosemary 'Rosie' Elizabeth Rigly
Gordon Jackson ..... BBC TV producer
David King-Wood ..... Dr. Gordon Briscoe
Harold Lang ..... Christie
Lionel Jeffries ..... Blake
Sam Kydd ..... Police sergeant questioning Rosie
Richard Wordsworth ..... Victor Carroon
Peter Cushing ..... Baron Frankenstein
Susan Denberg ..... Christina
Thorley Walters ..... Doctor Hertz
Robert Morris ..... Hans
Duncan Lamont ..... The Prisoner
Peter Blythe ..... Anton
Barry Warren ..... Karl
Derek Fowlds ..... Johann
Alan MacNaughton ..... Kleve
Peter Madden ..... Chief of Police
Philip Ray ..... Mayor
Ivan Beavis ..... Landlord
Colin Jeavons ..... Priest
Bartlett Mullins ..... Bystander
Alec Mango ..... Spokesman
Christopher Lee ..... Count Dracula
Barbara Shelley ..... Helen Kent
Andrew Keir ..... Father Sandor
Francis Matthews ..... Charles Kent
Suzan Farmer ..... Diana Kent
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell ..... Alan Kent
Thorley Walters ..... Ludwig
Philip Latham ..... Klove
Walter Brown ..... Brother Mark
George Woodbridge ..... Landlord
Jack Lambert ..... Brother Peter
Philip Ray ..... Priest
Joyce Hemson ..... Mother
John Maxim ..... Coach Driver
Horst Janson ..... Kronos
John Carson ..... Dr. Marcus
Shane Briant ..... Paul Durward
Caroline Munro ..... Carla
John Cater ..... Grost
Lois Daine ..... Sara Durward
Ian Hendry ..... Kerro
Wanda Ventham ..... Lady Durward
William Hobbs ..... Hagen
Brian Tully ..... George Sorell
Robert James ..... Pointer
Perry Soblosky ..... Barlow
Paul Greenwood ..... Giles
Lisa Collings ..... Vanda Sorell
John Hollis ..... Barman

Synopsis:

Quatermass II (1957)
Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for Moon colonisation his project to colonize the Moon, is intrigued by the mysterious traces that have been showing up.

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
A missile, launched by the team led by Prof. Quatermass, lands in the English countryside. Of the three members of the crew, two have mysteriously disappeared. The third one, barely alive, undergoes an horrible metamorphosis turning into a monstrous 'thing'.

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Baron Frankenstein has acquired the dead body of a young maiden, Christina, and all it lacks is the spark of life.

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Two couples traveling in eastern Europe decide to visit Carlstad despite dire local warnings. Left outside the village by a coachman terrified at the approach of night, they find themselves in the local castle and are surprised at the hospitality extended by the sinister Klove. It turns out the owner, Count Dracula, dead for ten years, has been hoping for such a visit.

Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)
Fantasy adventure based on the efforts of the dashing captain Kronos to relieve the village of Durward from a vampire curse.

Quatermass II (1957)
Originally titled QUATERMASS II, ENEMY FROM SPACE was the sequel to THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (US title: THE CREEPING UNKNOWN). Based on the British TV serial by Nigel Kneale (who reportedly disliked the finished product), the film stars Brian Donlevy, repeating the role of Professor Quatermass. This time, the good professor must contend with a ""meteor shower"" which turns out to be a secret alien invasion. The extraterrestrials arrive on earth in rocklike vehicles, then take over the minds and nervous systems of earthlings, the better to go about their business undetected. Subliminally a cruel satire of British bureaucracy and obfuscation, ENEMY FROM SPACE also works on a pure-horror level, building slowly and methodically to a powerhouse finale. For many years a ""lost"" film due to legal tangles, ENEMY FROM SPACE has recently become available again on video and cable TV.

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), a forceful, misanthropic American scientist, the Q-1 had three astronauts aboard when it left Earth, but only one of them, engineer Victor Caroon (Richard Wordsworth), is on board upon landing, and he is in a near-comatose state. Even more baffling, the spacesuits of the other two men are still aboard the wrecked ship and are still interlocked, as though they were in them when whatever transpired. Quatermass's investigation is complicated by the presence of Inspector Lomax (Jack Warner) of Scotland Yard, who is treating the disappearance of the two men as a potential murder case, and by Caroon's wife Judith (Margia Dean), who blames the scientist for what has happened to her husband. An on-board camera, although damaged, shows an encounter with some form of energy that invaded the ship and attacked the crew, seemingly killing the other two astronauts and rendering Caroon unconscious. Caroon's condition keeps worsening -- Quatermass's medical expert, Dr. Gordon Briscoe (David King-Wood), is alarmed by the man's impossible heart- and pulse-rate, his degenerating skin and apparent changes in his bone and facial structure. Judith Caroon tries to spirit her husband out of the hospital where he's being cared for, not knowing that something horrific is happening to him. Quatermass and Briscoe soon realize that Caroon is little more than the shell of a man, masking an invading alien life form that can literally draw the life out of any living thing that it touches. The manhunt turns into a fight for survival as the creature continues to kill and mutate, threatening to release spores into the air and spread itself by the millions throughout the Earth.

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Hammer Studios followed up Evil of Frankenstein with this entertaining sequel, again starring Peter Cushing as the quintessential mad scientist obsessed with the reanimation of dead bodies and the creation of superhuman creatures. His latest project involves transferring the mind of a wrongly-executed man into the body of his lover (former Playboy centerfold Susan Denberg), whose own suicide left her horribly disfigured. After restoring her beauty, the Doctor performs the mind-transference, which comes off without a hitch... until the lust for revenge against his executioners begins to surface. He/she then pursues this vendetta by seducing and murdering those who wronged him. Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher directs this quirky entry with his usual flair -- aided considerably by a decent budget -- and spices things up with a fair share of titillation (courtesy of Ms. Denberg).

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Christopher Lee dons the evil Count's cloak once again after an 8-year hiatus for this first ""authentic"" sequel to Hammer Studios' Horror of Dracula (the literal 1960 follow-up Brides of Dracula did not feature Lee). The story begins when two stuffy vacationing couples make an ill-fated stopover at Castle Karlsbad in the Carpathian mountains -- despite the warnings of the mysterious Fr. Sandor (Andrew Keir) and the near-destruction of their coach when the terrified driver runs for his life. After a slightly tedious stretch, one of the men (Charles Tingwell) is sacrificed in a bloody Satanic ritual, orchestrated by the Count's loyal manservant Klove (Philip Latham) to bring the legendary vampire back to life. The revived Count immediately sets his sights on the man's wife (Barbara Shelley), making her his undead bride; the surviving pair seek refuge in Fr. Sandor's abbey, with the undead bloodsuckers in hot pursuit. This stylish and chilling production is imbued with Gothic atmosphere by director Terence Fisher (one of his last films for the studio) and remains one of the classier entries from Hammer's heyday. Also known as Revenge of Dracula.

Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)
Young girls are literally being drained of their youth, so Dr Marcus [John Carson] sends for professional vampire hunter Captain Kronos [Horst Janson] who brings along his hunchbacked assistant Professor Hieronymous Grost [John Cater] and Carla [Caroline Munro], a girl they saved from a stockade. After investigating the most recent murder, Kronos and the Professor stop at an inn along the way where a wiseass named Kerro [Ian Hendry] insults the hunchbacked professor and draws a sword on Kronos. In lightning speed, Kronos shows his skill with the sword (NOTE: cool scene).Meanwhile, Dr Marcus goes to visit the Durward mansion where brother Paul [Shane Briant] and sister Sara [Lois Daine] live with Lady Durward [Wanda Ventham], their grieving mother who has been brooding since the death of her husband from a disease once treated by Dr Marcus. Riding away from the Durward mansion, Marcus meets up with a cloaked figure. Shortly thereafter, Marcus begins to turn vampire. Kronos tries to kill Marcus by staking and then hanging. No dice until Marcus is pierced by a small cross made of steel. Prof Grost fashions a steel sword with a cross handle, and he and Kronos go back into the words to search for the vampire. A coach goes by. Grost tosses a dead toad under the coach. After the coach passes over it, the toad is alive, proof that a vampire is in the Durward coach.Posing as bait, Carla wanders up to the Durward mansion and requests shelter. Later, as she lies on a couch before the fireplace, she is approached by a woman who mesmerizes her. It is Lady Durward, who reveals that she is Karnstein by birth and that Lord Durward [William Hobbs] has been reawakened. Lady Durward offers Carla to him. Fortunately, Kronos enters the room and deflects Lady Durward's gaze, mesmerizing her instead. As everyone stands around mesmerized, Lord Durward and Kronos sword fight. Kronos drops his cross, but the professor tosses it to him in the nick of time. Lord Durward dies. Lady Durward attacks Kronos, but he kills her, too. In the end, Kronos and the professor ride off to go 'anywhere, everywhere, wherever there is evil to be fought,' leaving Carla behind.

Quatermass II (1957)
Several years after the previous serial took place, Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his future son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Professor Bernard Quatermass is in charge of a manned rocket mission that has gone awry. They lost contact with the spaceship at one point and have no idea how far into space it may have traveled. When the rocket crash lands in a farmer's field they find that only one of the three occupants, Victor Carroon, is on board; the others have simply vanished. Slowly, the surviving astronaut begins to transform into a hideous creature and Quatermass realizes that Carroon may have been infected by an alien being. When Carroon escapes from the hospital with the help of his unsuspecting wife, the authorities race to destroy it before it multiplies.

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
A dead and frozen Baron Frankenstein is re-animated by is colleague Dr. Hertz proving to him that the soul does not leave the body on the instant of death. His lab assistant, young Hans, is found guilty of murdering the local pub owner with whom he had an argument where he foolishly swore to kill the man and Frankenstein acquires his body immediately after the execution. Hans had been quite friendly with the dead man's daughter Christina who returns just in time to see him guillotined. Distraught, she commits suicide and is brought back to life by the good Doctor but with Hans' brain replacing her own. As memories return to her - Hans' memories in fact - she sets out to pursue and kill those responsible for having sent him to his death.

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
First Sequel to the Hammer Studios version of the Dracula Legend teaming Christopher Lee as the Count and his arch enemy Peter Cushing as the famous Vampire hunter Van Helsing. In this installment the count is brought back from the dead after his destruction in the original film. Dracula proceeds to pick up where he left off by terrorizing the people visiting his castle where ultimately good and evil again clash.

Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)
Vampire hunter and expert swordsman Kronos finds himself in a small village where several of the local young women have been found in an advanced state of age, their youth drained from them by a vampire's kiss. Kronos' search leads him to the Durward estate where he is met by the effete children of the apparently aged and sick Lady Durward.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 29 July, 2011.