proof and if ever proof be need and that hammer should have leave their vampire firmly in the victorian age . after all and vampirism be all about repress sexuality and so the concept be irrelevant in 1972 london and with it thirty something thesps pretending to be randy teenager . remember and by this time and hammer be flounder badly . the public have tire of the drawing room horror of the 1950s and 60 and so the studio be try everything to bring them back and include ample nudity ( lust for a vampire and et al ) and update their character neither of which apparently work a hammer be pretty much resting in it grave just two year later . shame . but i still have a great fondness for the classic hammer period from 1957 1965 .