Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Hammer Horror Message-ID: <2330003@otter.hpl.hp.com> Date: 15 Aug 89 17:05:38 GMT References: <8908141647.AA24222@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 17 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: isg100!otter!dps@ncr-sd.sandiego.ncr.com (Duncan Smith) Tamar, _Hammer_Horror_ is indeed an homage to the Hammer films. Note that they were horror films, not mysteries. As I recall the lyrics, the song melds together the essential elements of such a film. They were very popular during the sixties and early seventies, when Kate was a young girl. They starred such names as Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee and were frequently about some creepy old country house were devilish goings on were to be encountered. Some of the genre are now regarded as classics, e.g. 'Night of the Daemons.' The voiceover at the start of HoL is actually a line from one of these films (Maybe the one I mentioned.) Duncan Smith