1951 Down Place

Happy Halloween! This month, the Down Placers get down with Dracula as they take a look at 1968’s Dracula Has Risen from... Read more

Let’s see we have a peck on the cheek, an Eskimo kiss, butterfly kisses, a Spider-Man upside-down kiss and Hammer’s 196... Read more

Can you guess what movie the Down Placers discuss in Episode #003 of 1951 Down Place? Why, it’s elementary – it’s 1959′s... Read more

What if you made a Dracula film and the Prince of Darkness is a no-show? Well, that’s the scenario this month for Casey,... Read more

Per listener request, Casey, Derek and Scott sit down to talk about 1966’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness (dir. Terence Fis... Read more

The Down Placers may have suffered a minor reboot of their own as they tackle Hammer’s attempt at rebooting their Franke... Read more

It’s a very special time here at 1951 Down Place central as our intern Scott has celebrated another birthday this month.... Read more

Hungry? How about some of that so-called “synthetic food” being whipped up at Winnerden Flats? Tell you what – you go on... Read more

Driven straight out of Bohemia and into this month’s episode of 1951 Down Place, it’s the one, the only Baron Frankenste... Read more

We saw a werewolf with a Spanish menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Madrid in the rain He was looking for a... Read more

Terence Fisher was a busy man for Hammer in the 1960s. A total of ten Hammer films were released bearing the name Terenc... Read more

After last month’s discussion of Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (insert the Captain Kronos opening theme stinger here!)... Read more

Baron Frankenstein is back . . . and so is Casey as the Down Placers dive into 1958’s The Revenge of Frankenstein. Casey... Read more

Ladies and Gentlemen! May I direct your attention to the center ring where the Courageous Casey, the Death Defying Derek... Read more

For Derek’s birthday pick, he selected the 1962 film The Phantom of the Opera (dir. Terence Fisher). It might be hard to... Read more

Derek taps into his painfully-obvious-fandom of zombie movies and, for his birthday month, brings The Plague of the Zomb... Read more

Torn from the pages of history – the truth about the man who turned men into killers and women into animals! Well, mayb... Read more

The Quatermass Xperiment (dir. Val Guest) delivers classic and intelligent science fiction with that Hammer touch, and t... Read more

All this has happened before, and it will all happen again. But this time it happened in London. It happened on a quiet... Read more

There are no bouncing bumbles here! Instead, the Down Placers take on the most dreaded beast of the Himalayas – The Abom... Read more