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Countess Elizabeth realizes that the blood of young women makes her own aging skin return to youthful vibrance, and the more blood she rubs on her skin in the younger she stays. Their latest release is a box-set collecting four films from Hammer’s early 70s period - two of which made our list of the 10 best Hammer horror films! - so keep reading for our review of Hammer Horror: Four Gothic Horror Films.Ī death leads a bitter widow to resent her daughter - her husband’s will dictates the two split his estate - but a bloody discovery offers a chance for the countess to secure the fortune for herself. Numbered spines and slickly uniform packaging are catnip for physical media collectors, and the on-disc contents are every bit as solid. titles that have/had yet to see a release stateside. Part of the ViaVision family, the label continues to deliver an eclectic selection of titles on Blu-ray including several U.S. The B-side of the song was "Coffee Homeground", which also featured on Lionheart.Imprint has quickly made a name for themselves as quality label out of Australia. A promotional video was made for the single featuring Bush and a black-masked dancer performing the song against a black background. The guilt-ridden narrator of the song ends up being haunted by the ghost of the jealous original actor, who was a former friend.

"He was an actor in an actor in an actor, rather like Chinese boxes, and that's what I was trying to create." The story of the song concerns an actor who gets thrust into the lead role of The Hunchback of Notre Dame after the original actor dies in an accident on the film set.


"The song was inspired by seeing James Cagney playing the part of Lon Chaney playing the hunchback", Bush stated in 1979. However, Bush conceived of the song after viewing the film Man of a Thousand Faces, a biographical film – not produced by Hammer – about Lon Chaney starring James Cagney. The song references Hammer Films, a company specializing in horror movies. Whilst in Australia during a promotional tour, Kate Bush devised the dance routine for the song in her Melbourne hotel room, and performed the song on the television show Countdown. In other countries it fared better, such as Ireland and Australia, where the song reached No. "Hammer Horror" proved to be a temporary blip, for Bush's next single returned her to the top 20. The parent album, released a few weeks later, was unaffected and charted in the top 10. " Hammer Horror" is a song by Kate Bush, released as first single from her second album Lionheart.
