Episode 198 - Hammer Britannia 024 - Nightmare (1964)
Reel Britannia
- Published
- June 6, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 2m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 6, 2026
Discusses Hammer opens the door to a nightmare where every shadow has a secret. For the latest episode of Reel…
Summary
Hammer opens the door to a nightmare where every shadow has a secret. For the latest episode of Reel Britannia, we step into the chilly corridors and troubled dreams of Nightmare, Hammer's 1964 psychological thriller from director Freddie Francis and writer Jimmy Sangster. This is Hammer without the fangs, capes, castles, or buckets of Kensington Gore. In…
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Hammer opens the door to a nightmare where every shadow has a secret. For the latest episode of Reel Britannia, we step into the chilly corridors and troubled dreams of Nightmare, Hammer's 1964 psychological thriller from director Freddie Francis and writer Jimmy Sangster. This is Hammer without the fangs, capes, castles, or buckets of Kensington Gore. Instead, it gives us something colder and more unsettling: a black-and-white tale of fear, memory, manipulation and madness, where the terror cre