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Sep 28, 2026
Chris FranklinHOST
This is an actual church.
Chris FranklinHOST
Braywood Church near Hammer's home of Bray Studios.
Chris FranklinHOST
The church was abandoned in 1958 when the congregation rejoined the Bray Church.
Chris FranklinHOST
After filming there, the church, which was built in... 1848 was set for demolition, which saddened Peter Cushing.
Chris FranklinHOST
This is an actual church.
Chris FranklinHOST
Braywood Church near Hammer's home of Bray Studios.
Chris FranklinHOST
The church was abandoned in 1958 when the congregation rejoined the Bray Church.
Chris FranklinHOST
After filming there, the church, which was built in... 1848 was set for demolition, which saddened Peter Cushing.
Dan ColónHOST
But in any case, you know, all the old school names participating in this film.
Dan ColónHOST
As usual, the filming took place at Hammer's Bray Studios.
Dan ColónHOST
This time, Hammer doubled up productions, shooting Dracula Prince of Darkness back to back with Rasputin the Mad Monk, using many of the same sets and cast members, including Christopher Lee.
Mike ManziHOST
Oh, is he Rasputin? I believe he is, yeah.
Kevin LyonsHOST
It turns up in virtually every one of those early, early Hammer films.
Kevin LyonsHOST
Um, I do love Bray Studios' Grand Hall, which we see time and again.
Kevin LyonsHOST
We see it in Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Rasputin the Mad Monk, The Reptile, Plague of the Zombies.
Kevin LyonsHOST
Of course, four of those were shot pretty much back to back.
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Kevin LyonsHOST
That's lovely.
Kevin LyonsHOST
Thank you.
Becky DarkeHOST
"How severely do you think Hammer's atmosphere suffered when they stopped filming at Bray Studios? Did the loss of Bray's unique parochial layout change the actual framing and cinematography of their later films? Was the move to Elstree ultimately the demise of that lush, claustrophobic Hammer look?" What a great question.
Kevin LyonsHOST
Excellent question.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
Yes [laughs]
Mark StuckeyGUEST
... aren't we? 'Cause I, I worked at Pinewood Studios and Bray Studios, uh, for many years on different projects.
Mark StuckeyGUEST
And now in the early days, particularly for the BBC, you know, they used to have all these sort of content, which was creating a lot of s- space being used up.
Mark StuckeyGUEST
So, so by the '70s, they were forced to make a decision that they either have to put these into landfill or destroy them, burn them.
RichardHOST
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RichardHOST
Effects, Bray Studios, who did all the model work, deliberately away from the main set so they wouldn't get interfered at by directors, got a lot more money, and you really see it in the models.
RichardHOST
We get busy.
RichardHOST
packs on the eagles it's very exciting yeah and we get husbands and we get relationships but we have always had that do you
Jessica KiangGUEST
It's also a lovely time capsule of when British cinema was publicly funded.
Jessica KiangGUEST
And those kind of mechanisms, it's not a glamorous or particularly... lucrative way at all but that there was some kind of faith in the idea even from the BBC that we should be funding this extremely edgy and extremely visionary artist because it's the right thing to do and so that's kind of exciting and then just a few things that actually do happen during the actual shooting one of which is in Bray Studios, which is a small studio in Berkshire, next door to where the set is, Cliff Richard is recording an album or something.
Jessica KiangGUEST
Jarman used in some of his scenes, he used as background extras, he used members of the group Outrage, who were the gay rights activist group, And during some sort of in-between shooting scenes, whatever, a bunch of them decide that they're going to go and break down, basically break into the studio where Cliff Richard is recording and demand that he out himself.
Jessica KiangGUEST
Because this is another thing.
Vaughan ArnellGUEST
Yeah.
MattHOST
So moving on to the next track that you worked on with Rob, Rock DJ at Bray Studios.
Vaughan ArnellGUEST
Yeah.
MattHOST
So Rock DJ is one of Rob's most talked about videos.
Lance BenzieHOST
Because you can sometimes turn a Hammer film on without knowing what it is, and then in five minutes think, yep, that's Hammer.
Lance BenzieHOST
The colors, the fog, the costumes, the forest, the stone walls, the fireplaces, the laboratories, the impossibly red blood, and Bray Studios when it is enormously important for that identity.
Lance BenzieHOST
Hammer moved into Bray in 1951.
Lance BenzieHOST
Down place, the country house at the site and the surrounding could be transformed into all sorts of locations.