Cult Trailers: Christopher Lee

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Starship Invasions (1977)

Watch the entire movie here!

Directed by Ed Hunt

Starring Christopher Lee, Robert Vaughn and Helen Shaver

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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985)

Directed by Philippe Mora

Starring Sybil Danning and Christopher Lee

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Directed by Pierre Chevalier.

Starring Sybil Danning.

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(Note: Since posting this the actual trailer has become unavailable. This short clip will have to do instead.) This trailer has it all - Sybil Danning dispensing clips like Arnie and kicking the living shit out of stuntmen, an all-girl combat squad armed with machine guns shooting at helicopters and a crazed South American dictator vowing to take over the world. Oh yah, there's lasers and a motorcycle chase.

It also sports one of the funniest lines I've ever heard in a film - "Surrender or I'll blow your Nike's off!"

If you don't know who Sybil Danning is, then I suggest you track down some of her easier to find movies (you'd be hard pressed to even find a VHS copy of Panther Squad though there are a few kicking around Ebay) like Chained Heat (1983), Reform School Girls (1986), The Howling II: Your Sister Is A Werewolf (1985), The Red Queen Kills 7 Times (1972) and Battle Beyond The Stars (1980).

Those are some pretty wild films and Danning was great in all of them (especially as the werewolf queen Stirba in the absolutely ridiculous Howling II which also starred a slumming Christopher Lee).

Danning also recently played a nurse in Rob Zombie's disappointing Halloween remake as well as the main part in Zombie's faux-trailer "Werewolf Women of the SS" in Tarantino and Rodriguez's "Grindhouse".

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)

Directed by Don Sharp.

Starring Christopher Lee.

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One of my favourite Hammer Horror films thanks to a nasty and memorable performance by the classy Christopher Lee. He is just so convincingly evil that he more than makes up for a somewhat lackluster plot and lack of atmosphere.

The only more menacing character I can think of is Spencer Tracy's take on Dr. Jeckyll in the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (make sure to check that one out, even if you're not a fan of older horror films.)

Friday, February 6, 2009

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Some have called this the greatest vampire film ever made. Regardless, it's worth a watch just to watch two legends in their Hammer horror prime.

Directed by Terence Fisher.

Starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

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