Thing Of Unspeakable Horror
The History Of Hammer Films

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  • Hammer Films was in business producing its unique brand of camp Gothic horror films from 1934 until 1979, and struck gold in 1957 with "The Curse of Frankenstein."

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  • AuthorSinclair McKay
    BindingPaperback
    Cat No. 1659412
    GenreFilm
    Handy TagVampires
    ISBN 9781845133481
    PublisherAurum Press
    TypeBooks

  • Hammer Films was in business producing its unique brand of camp Gothic horror films from 1934 until 1979, and struck gold in 1957 with "The Curse of Frankenstein."

    If the "Carry On" films established a thoroughly British brand of lewd innuendo and slapstick comedy, Hammer established an equally British brand of lashings of fake gore, heaving decolletage and plots as creaky as the sets (the Transylvanian mansion was actually a country house in Berkshire).

    Hammer made stars out of regulars like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and it gave early screen roles to an unlikely crop of thespians from Denis Waterman to Kate O'Mara.

    In 2007 the Hammer oeuvre was reissued on DVD - but, as he author makes clear, the true medium for these trashy gorefests is late night TV after you've got back from the pub.

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