BULLETIN – Hammer opens its vaults

As we slug through another seemingly endless awards season the very thought of another life-affirming prestige film may well churn your stomach, and those industry executives, suits worn down from all the back-patting, are in dire need of a trip to the tailors. What better way to give everyone a break then by descending into a network of tunnels under Waterloo station to watch some classic (and not so classic) Hammer Horror? The screening room (or vault) at the Vault Festival, currently showing a selection of Hammer’s literary adaptations, was apparently rather fittingly used in years past to store corpses before they could be transported, via London’s Necropolis railway line, to the cemetery. For those doubting that a railway line called Necropolis actually existed in London, I’ve already wikipediad it. Wikipedia doesn’t lie.