Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		5.0
Overall		4.0

Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman April 1, 2020

Ask even the most casual film fan what comes to mind when they hear the name Hammer Studios (and/or Hammer Film Productions, Ltd., as it is officially known), and my hunch is very few if any of them would answer “war movies”, since (as is probably obvious) Hammer has long been known for its Gothic horror output. But Hammer did make some war movies, albeit not necessarily always with the same focus that some of the major Hollywood studios did through the years. Powerhouse Films’ Indicator series has been bringing out rather interesting aggregations of Hammer properties, including Hammer Volume One: Fear Warning!, Hammer Volume Two: Criminal Intent and the recently reviewed Hammer Volume Four: Faces of Fear (Hammer Volume Five: Death & Deceit is coming out just as this review is going live). This third volume is an unusual assortment of Hammer films that all feature some kind of war as at least a tangential element, with two of the films offering plots that are putatively connected to World War II, and two others reaching further back into the mists of history to detail other kinds of battles and/or skirmishes.

For reviews of the four films in this set, please click on the following links:

The Camp on Blood Island Blu-ray review

Yesterday's Enemy Blu-ray review

The Stranglers of Bombay Blu-ray review

The Terror of the Tongs Blu-ray review

Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplementary material on each disc is detailed in the respective above linked reviews. I do recommend those interested to peruse all of the supplements on all of the discs, as some may be at least a bit more generalist in nature rather than only tied to whatever film they're supposedly associated with. As with the other releases in this series, this comes housed in a slipbox featuring separate keepcases for the four titles which also include nicely appointed insert booklets for each film.

Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

This is a rather odd aggregation of films on a couple of levels. Those wanting "traditional" Hammer horror are probably going to be disappointed for the most part, but at least a couple of the films also make some questionable decisions about portrayals of Asian characters which some modern day viewers may well find offensive. That said, this is another extremely well packaged release, with generally solid technical merits and some really outstanding supplemental features. With content caveats noted, Recommended.