Creep Out Your Ears by Listening to ‘HAMMER CHILLERS’

Hammer made a nice little comeback last year with The Woman in Black. While I wasn’t the hugest fan of the film, I dug the atmosphere it brought to audiences. It also felt like British Horror, something I admired even more. Hammer has created six audio dramas that vary from 30 to 45 minutes each and will be released in a digipack later this week. If you order the digipack, you will get the audio files immediately. You can also buy the tracks individually if you want to give one of them a listen. Between this and Tales from Beyond the Pale, it’s nice to see horror audio making a comeback. We have included toggles below which include synopses & links below.

Check out all the Audio Dramas by clicking here

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SYNOPSIS

The culmination of the Wainfleet Maritime College sea rescue and safety course is a session in The Box, an underwater helicopter escape simulator. The candidates are ex-navy or air force, and The Box should be an easy exercise for such experienced men.

So why are the drop-outs gradually increasing in number? Men are seeing things when they’re submerged, and won’t talk about them when they come out…

What is the secret of The Box?

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Written by STEPHEN GALLAGHER
CON O’NEILL as Sean Dickens
ALEX LOWE as George ‘Buster’ Brown
ZOE LISTER as Kim Lavery
SCOTT BROOKSBANK as Errol Briggs

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SYNOPSIS

When Ian Hibbert witnesses a hoodie dumping a bin of rubbish outside his house, he decides enough is enough. He convenes a group of Darwell residents and sets out to clean up the estate, which has been falling to rack and ruin the past few years.

But the Clean Up Darwell group are abused; his daughter is attacked; and finally, one of the committee members disappears.

Ian discovers to his cost that someone – or something – doesn’t want him to clean up Darwell. But why?

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Written by MARK MORRIS
MILES JUPP as Ian Hibbert
CAMILLE CODURI as Beth Hibbert
EWAN BAILEY as Malcolm Beglin/DS Bob Sharpe
JACQUELINE KING as Barbara Whitlow
LAUREN KELLEGHER as Sam Hibbert
DANNY HORN as Hoodie

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SYNOPSIS

Phil doesn’t need a girlfriend, his overbearing Mummy tells him. His Mummy will look after him forever. She steams open his post, reads his diary and checks under his bed for mucky magazines.

Suspecting that her shy, middle-aged son is seeing a lady, she employs her friend Renee from Friday night bingo to spy on him.

But when Mummy discovers that it’s Renee herself who is carrying on with her darling boy, she exacts a terrible revenge…

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Written by PAUL MAGRS
JACQUELINE KING as Mummy
CAMILLE CODURI as Renee
EWAN BAILEY as Phil

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SYNOPSIS

Neil Stanley is a nice man. He has a nice house, a nice wife, a nice life. But Neil has a secret. He’s an internet troll, spending every spare moment posting hate-filled messages online.

When he begins trolling talent-show contestant Sam Pinker, his threats begin to come true. Is Neil acting upon his online taunts? Or is something else to blame?

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Written by ROBIN INCE
ALEX LOWE as Neil Stanley
ZOE LISTER as Sam Pinker
CON O’NEILL as Gavin Hayes
FROG STONE as Val Stanley
CICELY GIDDINGS as Martine
SCOTT BROOKSBANK as Mitch/Doctor
Horses supplied by MILES JUPP

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SYNOPSIS

Mia never takes the eerie old lift in the St Petersburg International Archive. But one night she leaves late and is forced to break her rule. She’s travelling down with the only other passenger when the lift jams between floors.

Andrei is a Russian electrician, and tries to free them, but he can’t get the doors open. As the days pass their bond grows stronger, while they grow weaker.

But what are those strange noises? Are supernatural forces trapping them in the lift? Or is the truth even more terrifying?

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Written by CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
LAUREN KELLEGHER as Mia
DYLAN CHARLES as Andrei

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SYNOPSIS

John and Laura Daulby’s son is lying in a coma in hospital, on a Greek holiday island. But John refuses to believe his son is just another victim of bad drugs.

He enters the hedonistic world of 18-30 clubbers to get to the truth, and meets the enigmatic and beautiful Stheno.

Finding himself increasingly attracted to her – in the same way his son was – he realises that she may just be a Greek myth come to life…

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Written by STEPHEN VOLK
TONY GARDNER as John Daulby
LIZZIE ROPER as Laura Daulby
DAPHNE ALEXANDER as Stheno
CHRIS PAVLO as Dr Achilleos
ANGUS KING as Fergus
FROG STONE as Nurse

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You can subscribe to the whole first series of Hammer Chillers for the special price of £14.99.

Each Friday you’ll be emailed a code to download the new episode in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.