Hammer Time: A Hammer Horror Podcast

This week Kev and Becky take a break from vampires, monsters and psycho nannies to crack open the mailbag and respond to some listener feedback and questions!

Hosted by Becky Darke and Kevin Lyons

Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Becky and Kev are refusing to eat or sleep without locking their doors, as they discuss a Hammer masterpiece: the incredible Bette Davis thriller THE NANNY.

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This week Kev and Becky have lost their memories and are hiring a private detective to help solve a murder mystery in another one-word titled thriller from Jimmy Sangster and Freddie Francis: HYSTERIA.

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This week Becky and Kev are locked in the attic discussing Hammer's first foray into hagsploitation with the 1965 religious thriller FANATIC.

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This week Kev and Becky return to Ancient Egypt for another round with an angry pharaoh and the archeologists who woke him up in THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB.

Hosted by Becky Darke and Kevin Lyons

Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Becky and Kev are battling the Ancients alongside some Hammer horror greats in 1964's THE GORGON.

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This week Kev and Becky are back with the nefarious Baron! Peter Cushing returns in the hypnotic 1964 gothic horror THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN.

Hosted by Becky Darke and Kevin Lyons

Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Becky and Kev dial up the histrionics as they're plagued by bad dreams with their chat about the paranoid thriller NIGHTMARE!

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Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Kevin and Becky fire up their blow torches to discuss psycho thriller Maniac!

Hosted by Becky Darke and Kevin Lyons

Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Becky and Kev both have a serious case of imposter syndrome, as they dive deep into the twisty, turny - and very creepy - psychological thriller Paranoiac.

Hosted by Becky Darke and Kevin Lyons

Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Kev and Becky return to classic gothic horror and join a blood sucking cult as they discuss The Kiss of the Vampire!

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Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Kev and Becky are at the seaside in their black leather ("black leather smash smash smash") for some atomic sci-fi action with 1963's The Damned!

Hosted by Becky Darke and Kevin Lyons

Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Becky and Kev are peering through their opera glasses and taking in some high culture with Hammer's take on the horror classic The Phantom of the Opera!

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This week Kev and Becky talk smugglers and scarecrows as they tackle Hammer's horror adventure movie Captain Clegg!

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This week Kevin and Becky dive into Hammer's twisty-turny-psycho-thriller classic, Taste of Fear!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Kevin and Becky enter the era of Hammer's thrillers with John Gilling's The Shadow of the Cat!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Kevin and Becky gather under the full moon to discuss their love for werwolf films and lust for Oliver Reed as they review The Curse of the Werewolf!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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Kevin and Becky kick off 2026 with Hammer's 1960 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic classic...but is it a successful one??

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Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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For the final episode of 2025, Kev and Becky dip into the mailbag to respond to listener feedback and questions!

We'll be back to disucss The Two Faces or Dr. Jekyll in 2 weeks time!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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Peter Cushing's Van Helsing is back to battle more vampires in one of Kevin's favourite Hammer films so far...The Brides of Dracula!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Hammer returns to the world of mad medical science with The Man Who Could Cheat Death!

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This week Hammer dips back into the vault of classic monsters with their take on THE MUMMY, but could this cause Becky and Kev's first disagreement?!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

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This week, Hammer takes on Sherlock Holmes! Becky and Kev discuss The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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Peter Cushing returns as 'Doctor Victor Stein' in the first of the Hammer Frankenstein sequels!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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It's the big one! This week Kevin and Becky discuss one of the most iconic portrayals of 'The Count' in cinema history, with Hammer's first Dracula movie...

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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Wrap up warm! This week Kevin and Becky venture to the Himalayas to discuss Val Guest's The Abominable Snowman (1957)!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week we see the return of Bernard Quatermass as Becky and Kev discuss the first Hammer horror sequel...Quatermass 2!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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It's a big one! This week Kevin and Becky discuss the first gothic monster movie from Hammer with the incredible The Curse of Frankenstein!

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Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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This week Becky and Kevin dicsuss giant atomic blob monsters and the taboo of killing the kid in Hammer's sci-fi horror X The Unknown!

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Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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Kevin and Becky kick off their series of deep-dive discussions with the first Hammer Horror movie...The Quatermass Xperiment!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

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This week, to kick things off, hosts Kevin and Becky run through a brief history of Hammer Films and try to breakdown the tropes and conventions of a typical Hammer horror film...

Next week, Becky and Kevin will begin their journey through every single Hammer Horror film with an in-depth discussion of THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955)!

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

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From The Curse of Frankenstein to Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, from Dracula to Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, Hammer was the leading production company in British horror from the mid 1950s to the 1970s. Join film critic and Hammer newbie Becky Darke and Hammer expert Kevin Lyons as they watch and discuss every horror film in Hammer's back catalogue! It's Hammer Time.

Hosted by Becky Darke & Kevin Lyons

Produced & Edited by Mike Muncer

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