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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 393490" data-attributes="member: 5079">I hate for the first (textual) reply to be in the negative, but not I.  I think the Hammer films are more interesting to read about than actually watch.  I've never been able to finish watching a Hammer horror film; I get bored, annoyed, or both.    The early films in the cycle are competently made, but they're so dull: stodgy, stuffy and stagey in that 'Masterpiece Theater' kind of way.  The later films have a kind of lunacy to them, but they're so slipshod.  The worst of the Universal horror films are better than the best of Hammer's.Now, the relatively contemporaneous AIP film with Vincent Price?   Those are terrific.</blockquote>