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HAMMER HORROR
By Tom and Vicki
ORIGINS OF HAMMER
British Company.
Founded in 1934.
Most famous for films produced from the mid
50’s to the 70’s.
First film was produced for television as a
live series: The Quatermass Xperiment (1953)
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
Starred Peter Cushing and Dr Frankenstein
and Christopher Lee as his monster.
Was a remake of 1933 Universal production
Son of Frankenstein.
BBFC were very unsure of it as it was going
to show horror and gore in “vivid colour”.
It was a smash hit both in the UK and
America.
Frankenstein Trailer.
DRACULA
Starred Peter Cushing ,
Christopher Lee and Michael
Gough.
Dracula was an enormous
success, breaking box-office
records in the UK, the United
States and across the world.
Dracula Trailer
STARS TO EMERGE
There would be 3 major stars to
emerge from Hammer Horror’s films,
the stars were:
Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin
in Star Wars)
Michael Gough (Alfred in Batman)
Christopher Lee (Saruman in Lord
of The Rings)
CHANGES
During the later 60’s, Hammer
Horror struggled to compete with
new American horror, particularly
George A Romero’s, Night of the
Living Dead.
American Horror had a bigger
budget, so they could be more gory
and violent.
HAMMER IN THE 80’S
Two TV series “Hammer House of Horror”
were broadcast both in the UK and America
(known as Fox Mystery Theatre in the US).
HAMMER IN THE 21’ST CENTURY
In 2010, Hammer, in partnership with
Overture Films and Relativity Media,
remade Swedish Film “Let the Right
One In”
Most recently it has been announced
that Hammer are working with Alliance
films to do an adaptation of “The
Woman in Black”, set for release in
2012. The film will star Daniel Radcliff.
FIN