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What if you made a Dracula film and the Prince of Darkness is a no-show? Well, that’s the scenario this month for Casey, Derek, and Scott as they get together to talk about The Brides of Dracula from 1960. The film is directed by Terence Fisher and is the sequel to 1958’s Horror of Dracula. Can the good Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) save the day or will Baron Meinster (David Peel) continue to make moves on the ladies in Transylvania? Who are we kidding – of course Van Helsing will win. It’s Peter Cushing after all!
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #017 here!
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Derek taps into his painfully-obvious-fandom of zombie movies and, for his birthday month, brings The Plague of the Zombies (dir. John Gilling) to the birthday party happening at 1951 Down Place this month. These zombies aren’t interested in eating your flesh, but they are on the look out for tin.
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #016 here!
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Scott picked his own present for his birthday month, so it wasn’t “unknown” to him even though the movie he chose is X: The Unknown (dir. Leslie Norman). Casey and Derek join the birthday boy to talk about this 1956 science fiction thriller. Professor Bernard Quatermass wasn’t available when Scotland faced a radioactive threat, so Dr. Adam Royston (who’s got moves like Dean Jagger) steps up to save Scotland and guide the Down Placers on a ride that ends in . . . mud?
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #015 here!
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Happy Halloween, everyone! This year, the Down Placers spend one of their favorite holidays with their favorite doctor when they discuss 1967’s Frankenstein Created Woman (dir. Terence Fisher). Casey lists this movie among his Top Five Hammer Films, and in this episode we’ll learn if Scott or Derek enjoy the movie as much as he does, but at this point there shouldn’t be any question as to whether or not ANY of the Down Placers enjoy the work of Peter Cushing.
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #014 here!
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Kicking off Year Two of 1951 Down Place, the Down Placers go to . . . Manchester when they turn their gaze toward 1959’s Hell is a City (dir. Val Guest). This is the first time the gang takes a look at a “Hammer Noir.” How will it fare against these fans of Hammer’s sci-fi and horror offerings? Will Scott find a way to bring up James Bond again? What decidedly-non-British pop culture reference will Derek make that blows Scott’s mind? And Casey? We’ve been podcasting with him for a year, and we still don’t know about him.
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #013 here!
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The Down Placers are seeing double when they spend some time with Hammer’s Twins of Evil (dir. John Hough). While discussing the film, Casey, Derek and Scott fall under the spell of Dennis Price, marvel at the Collinson twins and have conflicting emotions about both simultaneously enjoying and being terrified by Peter Cushing. And if you listen real close, you might hear someone change their Top Five list.
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #012 here!
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Moon Zero Two Inception – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nR2sAi267g
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Per listener request, Casey, Derek and Scott sit down to talk about 1966’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness (dir. Terence Fisher) . . . and they say more in this podcast than actor Christopher Lee says throughout the entire movie (but that’s not saying much!).
Thanks to all the listeners that voted in the Listener Pick poll! We had a lot of fun with this, and are looking to do it again next year!
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #011 here!
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She who must be obeyed has commanded the Down Placers to tackle the 1965-film She (dir. Robert Day), and who are they to argue with She? Based on the classic adventure novel She by H. Rider Haggard, Hammer Films’ version of the story pits Down Place favorite Peter Cushing and company against the dubbed Ursula Andress and her minions (including Christopher Lee in a magnificent skullcap). After discussing the film, Casey, Derek and Scott unveil the rest of the 1951 Down Place schedule throughout the backhalf of 2012.
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #010 here!
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James Whale took a crack at adapting the 1927 J. B. Priestley novel Benighted for Universal in 1932. In 1963, Hammer Films and William Castle made their own attempt at adapting the novel. In 2012, the Down Placers take their turn at discussing the film that would become Hammer’s The Old Dark House. What is Tom Poston doing in a Hammer film? Does William Castle find a way to bring his own style to a film studio that, by 1963, had completely established its own identity for film viewers around the world? And what movie won the listener poll and will be covered in the July episode of 1951 Down Place?
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #009 here!
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The Quatermass Xperiment (dir. Val Guest) delivers classic and intelligent science fiction with that Hammer touch, and this episode of 1951 Down Place delivers a discussion of the film that ranks Number 3 on Scott’s Top Five Hammer Films list. Near the end of the discussion, Scott asks his enthusiastic co-hosts of The Quatermass Xperiment managed to find its way onto their own Top Five Lists – you’ll have to listen to hear their answers. Listener feedback rounds out the show, and the Down Placers express their enthusiasm for next month’s film.
Download 1951 Down Place: Episode #008 here!
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