Do you remember Hammer House of Horror films in the 70s & 80s?

[GreenBiscuitr]

What age range do you think they were appropriate for? Was it strictly adults only? I ask because I've suddenly remembered watching them as a kid.

There are a lot of things I shouldn’t have watched in the 70/80’s !

They were probably 15 or 18 rated or whatever the equivalent was back then. Some of them are quite tame compared to what's around now though. I'd put some on a par with Dr Who and the effects were a bit ropey, although they could have looked scary to a kid.

It all depends on which film it was in particular and how you were at the time.

^ how old you were at the time

I watched them as a kid.

Vincent Price (the old ham) was comedy gold...

I remember watching them with my mum - I think they were on around 9pm on a Friday. Nothing particularly horrific in them. I'd have been late primary/early secondary age.

Yes. A film called Ruby gave me nightmares for years

Always watched them when home from school, so I guess from about13

I watched them as a kid. The hammer TV series too. Loved them.

I remember my aunt babysitting me when I was about twelve and watching with her on the sofa as she watched a Hammer House of Horror, Christopher Lee, Dracula film where a group of Victorian men drink blood at the beginning of the film to resurrect him. (I think that was what happened) Cheesy as hell now, but it absolutely terrified me at the time.

I think I saw quite a few Hammer horror films after that.

And, not Hammer horror, but Mum and Dad took me to see Alien in the cinema when it first came out in 1979. I was 13 (and obviously the cinema sold them a ticket for me and let me in). To be fair there were no spoilers back then, so they didn't know how scary it was or what would happen. But I remember clutching Mum's hand and being petrified.

I think you saw a lot more scary stuff back then and just got on with it.

I vaguely remember watching a Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee film about the stranger on a train, in my teens. I found it creepy and it played on my mind a bit, more so than say Dracula with Gary Oldman in it.

You can watch Hammer House Horror series in ITVX or Britbox, I think. I watched a couple the other week and I wouldn't recommend younger than 15. Although I may have been even younger at the time!

No idea what age they were aimed at but I always watched them in the 70’s. I was born in ‘68 so definitely wasn’t old enough to watch them, but that was the 70’s for you. I walked to school either alone or with my sister, 2 years older, when I was 5.

I used to watch them with my dad on a friday night and I would have been about 10 maybe 11. I don't remember being scared afterwards by them.

One that i can still remember now was The House that Bled to Death

Armchair Thriller much more scary - especially that faceless nun

The werewolf one with Diana Dors

I used to be scared of the music of that programme where a box was spinning in the opening titles.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_House_of_Horror

Tales of the Unexpected?

I watched them as a kid. Probably around 10 or so, not older than 12 as I remember watching them at the house we moved out of when I was 12. I wasn't ever scared.

That’s the one ! I still hate the music .

Ooh yes, I remember watching Tales of the Unexpected as well.

We have 21 Hammer films in a boxed-collection, bought many years ago from a supermarket ‘bargain-box’. The majority are X certificate, which would have been 18 years old+, a few are A cert which was 15 years+ IIRC, however the ‘special effects’ are so lamentably old fashioned now compared with current CGI, that most teens would find them comedic/boring rather than horrifying.

We saw them first time round in our teens, having lied our way into the cinema, and thoroughly enjoyed watching them again, this time noting the repeated use of certain properties, houses, streets and even costumes in different films, and the total disregard to historical accuracy with clothing, make-up and hairstyles, the massive plot-holes and the continuity errors- our favourites being ‘The Devil Rides Out’ and the Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee ‘Dracula’ films.
There are some truly disturbing films made back in the seventies/eighties, but not from Hammer.

Like Asylum?

Oh Tales of the Unexpected!
I love the music actually.
Yes - than nun one! We all talked about that the next day in PRIMARY school. And the dog napping one. A Poodle (Tina?) getting dragged into the bushes in the dark .... ?

I love a Hammer Horror (at a past workplace my boss gave me a boxed set as a leaving gift). I'd say they were OK for age 14 or so? Some dodgy/exploitative attitudes to women though.

Hammer HOH.
Yes - remember the music to that too. Primary age again.

The only one i clearly remember was one about a vampire. (not Christopher Lee, some young bloke) He was killed in the shower - running water.

I watched them as a kid and loved it. I’d stay up late on my own downstairs. I can remember the episode where the blood was running down the walls and out the taps!! I was watching them at 8 with my parents permission unbelievably.