Hammer Horror/YMMV

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  • Everybody Remembers the Stripper: Some criticize Hammer for allowing increasingly salacious content in their movies, but there would generally only be a couple minutes at most of actual nudity in any given film.
  • Moral Event Horizon: In Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, while the Baron has already blackmailed a young couple and murdered several innocents, this could still be justified in his own twisted logic as part of his quest for scientific progress. The rape of Anna pushes him well past this point as the act is unnecessary for anything except his own gratification.
    • The rape scene was added by the producer who thought the movie needed "more sex." No one involved wanted to do it. Peter Cushing took actress Veronica Carlson out to dinner as an apology. Carlon's friend Roger Moore had to stop by the set to cheer her up before shooting. Director Terence Fisher walked off the set in the middle of the scene and the producer finished shooting it himself. Since no one wanted the Baron to do this, should it be counted? Well as the page says, YMMV.
  • Special Effect Failure: Stuffed bats on strings, for example.
    • This was actually part of the reason that it's outright stated in Hammer's Dracula that vampires don't change shape. Regrettably, they changed their mind.
    • Vampire Circus has everything from bad jump cuts and awful day-for-night footage to horrible composite footage of live bats bluescreened into the sky and a seemingly rocket-propelled cross that jams itself through a vampire horizontally when it's meant to just be falling straight down.
  • Theiss Titillation Theory: Shows up sometimes, particularly in the caveman epics. It's astonishing that Victoria Vetri didn't bounce right out of her top every time she moved in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.