The Reptile details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Jennifer Daniel, Noel Willman, Ray Barrett |
| Director: | John Gilling |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Reptile |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 26 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 29 Jan 2007 |
| Main languages: | English |
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hammer horror
By a customer from leeds , 10 Mar 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
i,ve got a very nostalgic place in my heart for the old hammer classics of the 50,s and 60,s. they scared me to death as a kid every friday night on tv. i would go to bed and hide under the covers. this new release from hammer onto dvd will not dissappoint their legion of fans.it,s very atmospheric with good pacey direction from john gilling with the always excellent micheal ripper enjoying a larger than usual role in the film. i enjoyed it immensly, unfortunately this is no friday 13th and todays horror buffs may find it very dated. this is for fans of the old hammer studios only.worth a look.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(6)Hammer Horror Classic
By moorje (23 reviews) from London , 19 Oct 2012'The Reptile' is a horror classic filmed by Hammer at the top of their game.
There may be a lack of star names but the other key ingredients of Victorian setting, strangers in a village and bumps in the night are played to great strengths.
The film gets going from the opening shot and is very effectively shot in shadows, the wilderness of the Moor and the creepiness of the graveyard. The stalking creature provides genuinely eerie moments and still has the power to make viewers jump on occasion. The creature itself may not be that convincingly realised, but 'The Reptile' is one of the best films of the genre and guaranteed to spook and delight horror fans old and new.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Classic Hammer
By a customer , 03 Aug 2012I had to give this film 5 stars beacuse it's awfully good! It's Hammer at it's best with the mock 1970's Victorian costumes and the overly dramatic back ground music. It has all the classic Hammer traits such as the pretend twighlight where they've just darkened down the film to make it look like nightime and the candles that once lit can illuminate an entire room and cast no shadows. This is an all star cast too, with John Laurie, aka Private Frazer from Dad's Army, playing 'Mad Paul' and Jacqueline Pearce, aka Servalan from Blakes 7, playing the daughter. Plus a Hammer 'must have', an evil foreign person! Add to all this a really rubbish monster that looks like it could have been made out of papermache by nursery school children, you can't loose!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Disappointing quality
By a customer from Southern England , 10 Oct 2009So-so film spoilt by terrible transfer to DVD, with a 'curtain' of picture noise over the whole film, and incorrect aspect ratio.- Was this review helpful to you?
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One of Hammer's worst, and least convincing of films, but it passes the time...
By a customer from Hamilton , 12 Jan 2009This is certainly one of Hammer's worst, and least convincing of films. Yet, it is well directed, well acted, and nicely shot, and with their hallmark suspense. Perhaps they were overly ambitious with their makeup, but the real failing is in the plot and one of their worst endings. Still, it passes the time...- Was this review helpful to you?
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Watchable but dated
By a customer from Birmingham , 31 Aug 2008Good fun but it is obvious that the budgets for Hammer ain't what they used to be....- Was this review helpful to you?
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