Hammer returns from dead on MySpace

Hammer horror is to be revived for the MySpace generation. The first production from Hammer Films for 30 years will be Beyond the Rave starring Sadie Frost, who was an actress before she became a fashion designer, starring opposite Gary Oldman in the 1992 film Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Beyond the Rave will be shown on MySpaceTV in a series of 20 'webisodes', each lasting four minutes.
 
Frost appears as a vampire alongside a largely unknown cast. The film charts 24 hedonistic hours in the life of a young soldier before he goes to Iraq. Inevitably, things soon take a sinister turn.
 
Simon Oakes, chairman of Hammer Horror, which is owned by a consortium led by Big Brother creator John de Mol, promised Beyond the Rave would mix the defining elements of the classic Hammer films such as The Curse of Frankenstein and Quatermass - blood, sex, death, vampires - with a 21st-century sensibility. "It's suspenseful, with plenty of blood, but it's not 'gore-nography'," he said. The original films made stars of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee and scared the pants off cinema audiences from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. ·