Ranked #1
1951 Down Place #049 – Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1951 Down Place #049 – Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
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
31 Oct 2015
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Ranked #2
1951 Down Place #053 – Kiss of the Vampire
1951 Down Place #053 – Kiss of the Vampire
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
29 Feb 2016
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Ranked #3
Episode #003 – The Hound of the Baskervilles
Episode #003 – The Hound of the Baskervilles
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
30 Nov 2011
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Ranked #4
Episode #017 – The Brides of Dracula
Episode #017 – The Brides of Dracula
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
31 Jan 2013
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Ranked #5
Episode #011 – Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Episode #011 – Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Per listener request, Casey, Derek and Scott sit down to talk about 1966’s Dracula: Prince of Darkness (dir. Terence Fis... Read more
31 Jul 2012
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Ranked #6
1951 Down Place #057 – The Horror of Frankenstein
1951 Down Place #057 – The Horror of Frankenstein
The Down Placers may have suffered a minor reboot of their own as they tackle Hammer’s attempt at rebooting their Franke... Read more
6 Aug 2016
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Ranked #7
1951 Down Place #039 – Quatermass and the Pit
1951 Down Place #039 – Quatermass and the Pit
It’s a very special time here at 1951 Down Place central as our intern Scott has celebrated another birthday this month.... Read more
30 Nov 2014
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Ranked #8
Episode #019 – Quatermass II
Episode #019 – Quatermass II
Hungry? How about some of that so-called “synthetic food” being whipped up at Winnerden Flats? Tell you what – you go on... Read more
1 Apr 2013
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Ranked #9
1951 Down Place #044 – Frankenstein Must be Destroyed
1951 Down Place #044 – Frankenstein Must be Destroyed
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
31 May 2015
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Ranked #10
1951 Down Place #038 – Curse of the Werewolf
1951 Down Place #038 – Curse of the Werewolf
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
31 Oct 2014
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Ranked #11
1951 Down Place #055 – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
1951 Down Place #055 – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
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
2 May 2016
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Ranked #12
Episode #006 – The Vampire Lovers
Episode #006 – The Vampire Lovers
After last month’s discussion of Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (insert the Captain Kronos opening theme stinger here!)... Read more
29 Feb 2012
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Ranked #13
Episode #020 – The Revenge of Frankenstein
Episode #020 – The Revenge of Frankenstein
Baron Frankenstein is back . . . and so is Casey as the Down Placers dive into 1958’s The Revenge of Frankenstein. Casey... Read more
1 May 2013
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Ranked #14
1951 Down Place #042 – Vampire Circus
1951 Down Place #042 – Vampire Circus
Ladies and Gentlemen! May I direct your attention to the center ring where the Courageous Casey, the Death Defying Derek... Read more
1 Apr 2015
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Ranked #15
1951 Down Place #040 – The Phantom of the Opera
1951 Down Place #040 – The Phantom of the Opera
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
2 Jan 2015
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Ranked #16
Episode #016 – The Plague of the Zombies
Episode #016 – The Plague of the Zombies
Derek taps into his painfully-obvious-fandom of zombie movies and, for his birthday month, brings The Plague of the Zomb... Read more
31 Dec 2012
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Ranked #17
1951 Down Place #045 – Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1951 Down Place #045 – Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Torn from the pages of history – the truth about the man who turned men into killers and women into animals! Well, mayb... Read more
1 Jul 2015
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Ranked #18
1951 Down Place: Episode #008 – The Quatermass Xperiment
1951 Down Place: Episode #008 – The Quatermass Xperiment
The Quatermass Xperiment (dir. Val Guest) delivers classic and intelligent science fiction with that Hammer touch, and t... Read more
30 Apr 2012
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Ranked #19
1951 Down Place #047 – Straight on Till Morning
1951 Down Place #047 – Straight on Till Morning
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
1 Sep 2015
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Ranked #20
Episode #004 – The Abominable Snowman
Episode #004 – The Abominable Snowman
There are no bouncing bumbles here! Instead, the Down Placers take on the most dreaded beast of the Himalayas – The Abom... Read more
31 Dec 2011
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