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'A fascinating trawl through the stuck-together pages of British horror history' --- Bizarre
'A celebration in words and daring pictures of when fangs were fun.' --- Mail on Sunday
'The interviews are as revealing as the photography' ---The Independent on Sunday
'A celebration in words and daring pictures of when fangs were fun.' --- Mail on Sunday
'The interviews are as revealing as the photography' ---The Independent on Sunday
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Over fifty years ago, with the release of "The Curse of Frankenstein" and Christopher Lee's iconic performance in "Dracula", Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely-restrained cleavage in glorious colour, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous. Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer's archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, "Hammer Glamour" is a lavish, full colour celebration of Hammer's female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in "One Million Years B. C."?).
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Is that a stake in your pocket?...,
By Prelati (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hammer Glamour (Hardcover)
A lavish coffee (or should that be coffin?) table book on the actresses that helped make Hammer's low budget British genre pictures so successful, 'Hammer Glamour' is certainly a must-buy for the studio's legion of devotees. For less devoted readers, it offers a fascinating peek at the pin-ups of yesteryear - the 'dollybirds' and 'crumpet' that raised more than a smile in the 60s and 70s.As so many reviews have (rightly) focused on the book's strengths, I'll suggest a few provisos. I suspect many might have preferred more focus on Hammer's 'Scream Queens' (Shelley, Pitt and Court perhaps) and less on some of the actresses whose career with the studio was brief at best. Many of the shots clearly have little do with Hammer (I understand the cover shot of Madeline Smith, charming as it is, was nothing to do with the studio). The text is secondary to the visuals (as it should be, perhaps), but anybody expecting an in-depth read will be disappointed. To take the opposite position, this is also pretty tame stuff - the author clearly favours the more suggestive approach of Hammer's earlier era. All of which is nit-picking really. You may not learn much from this colourful volume, but if you want a beautifully produced tribute to the many talented and lovely ladies that graced the screens courtesy of Hammer films, this is difficult to fault.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Hammer it home...,
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This review is from: Hammer Glamour (Hardcover)
I really enjoyed this book and if you have any love for the Hammer starlets of the past so will you.It's a good sized volume every page has glossy well produced photo's of the girl with well laid out text on her(usually)brief career with Hammer and any information the author has sourced,interview excerpts etc on their life afterwards.It's all put together well and although i've read some of the stories on a fair number of the actresses before alot of them i haven't.Theres a few pages at the back dedicated to the actresses that didn't make the cut to the main part of the book which i wish was longer. Amazon have this at half the publishers price at time of writing so i recommend not hanging about and pick this up now...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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I had no idea I was actually going to read it,
This review is from: Hammer Glamour (Hardcover)
OK I'm exaggerating a little bit with the title of my review but there's some truth in it. To be honest, I bought this book guessing that I'll turn every single page of the book looking at the beautiful pictures, than put it on my shelf. Here's how it really went for me: I open the amazon package, Madeline Smith greets me with the lovely cover photo of hers, I lift the jacket to see what's inside and to my surprise, I see there's the photo of Yutte Stensgaard all over the front case cover (Barbara Shelley on the back case) very well printed. Then I begin to "look" at the first pages (Introduction) and guess what? I'm still reading... The book is very well written, the respect the Hammer Studios have for their actresses is clearly seen on the artwork design, there are a lot of interviews and informations on every actress figuring in the book. There are 50 leading actresses and in that regard, I can say the book is divided into 50 parts, at least 3 pages for every Hammer Queen. This book pays respect to all the glamourous ladies that helped Hammer grow into an internationally acclaimed film studio. To buy this book thinking there are a bunch of pictures of beautiful women in it is nothing but disrespect to the Hammer spirit. If you think the Hammer Studios brought the magic touch to the horror on screen, if the Hammer films are more than just guilty pleasures for you, then like any other Marcus Hearn book, this is a must-have. The Hammer Horror is undead.
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