Terence Fisher
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The Curse of Frankenstein...and ''The Mummy '' (1959) and established "Hammer Horror" as a distinctive brand of Gothic cinema. The film was directed by Terence Fisher and starred Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Lee and Cushing would both go on to enjoy long film... In this article: Victor Frankenstein, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula, Universal, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee |
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Wikipedia | October 20, 2009
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Dracula: Prince of Darkness is a 1966 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Studios . The film was photographed in Techniscope by Michael Reed, designed by Bernard Robinson and scored by James Bernard . The film begins...
In this article: Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Count Dracula, Charles Tingwell, Dracula, Christopher Lee, and Francis Matthews
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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is a 1960 horror film by Hammer Film Productions. It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Paul Massie as Dr. Jekyll, and co-stars Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee and David Kossoff. It was written by Wolf...
In this article: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Christopher Lee
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Terence Fisher
...director who worked for Hammer Films . He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London, England. Terence Fisher on a set in the 1960s Fisher was one of the most prominent horror directors of the second half of the 20th century. He was the...
In this article: London, God, Horror, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Curse of Frankenstein, Hammer Films, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Wheeler Winston Dixon
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell is a 1974 British horror film from Hammer Film Productions. It was directed by Terence Fisher and starred Peter Cushing and David Prowse. It was the final chapter in Hammer's Frankenstein series of...
In this article: Victor Frankenstein, David Prowse, Peter Cushing, Hammer Film Productions, The Baron, and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
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Reginald Wyer
...(1948), ''So Long at the Fair (1950) and Four Sided Triangle (1953), the last two of which were directed by Terence Fisher. He joined Fisher again in the mid-1960s for two low-budget science fiction films: Island of Terror (1965) and Night of...
In this article: Reginald H. Wyer, Night of the Big Heat, Island of Terror, and Four Sided Triangle
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Cinema under the Stars
...transforms, continuously defines and configures itself new. Micky Hardin, daughter of "Hammer House of Horror"-Director Terence Fisher ("Dracula"), attended Cinema under the Stars, watching her fathers movie "The Mummy", to talk about...
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Boston Herald | June 28, 2009
Sink your teeth into resurgence of vampire lore
...Dreyer ("The Passion of Joan of Arc," "Day of Wrath," etc.). In the 1950s, England's Hammer Studios resurrected Dracula with Terence Fisher's 1958 Technicolor thriller "The Horror of Dracula," boasting a resplendent Christopher Lee in the...
In this article: Blood: The Last Vampire, Vlad Dracul, Dracula, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Christianity, Blade, Nosferatu, and Garlic
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Four Sided Triangle
Four Sided Triangle is a 1953 British science-fiction film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Film Productions. The film dealt with the moral and scientific themes (not to mention "mad lab" scenes) that were soon to put Hammer Films on...
In this article: Four Sided Triangle, Frankenstein Created Woman, Plastic surgery, William F. Temple, and Hammer Film Productions
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EW.com - PopWatch | October 27, 2008
Bits and Bobs (Vol. 16): A new DVD set scares up creepy classics from the Hammer films vault PopWatch Blog EW.com
...vampires with a sickle in 1971's Twins of Evil - to the genuinely creepy, like 1952's Stolen Face, directed by Hammer mainstay Terence Fisher. The story focuses on Paul Henreid, a plastic surgeon in love with a concert pianist who refuses to...
In this article: Peter Cushing, DVD, Dracula, Little Dorrit, The Innocents, Jimmy Sangster, Paul Henreid, and Christopher Lee
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New York Times | September 04, 2007
New DVDs - New York Times
...film by Nobuo Nakagawa. Known, according to the Japanese genre Web site midnighteye.com, as the Terence Fisher of Japan (Mr. Fisher being the most gifted director at Hammer Films, Britain s horror movie factory), Mr. Nakagawa is best known...
In this article: Teruo Ishii, Horrors of Malformed Men, Mikio Naruse, Nobuo Nakagawa, Jigoku, Demented, and Stavisky
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Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June, 1980), was a film director who worked for Hammer Films. He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London, England.
Fisher was arguably one of the most influential horror directors of the second half of the 20th century. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full Technicolor, and the gore, sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. His first major gothic horror film was The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), which launched Hammer's long association with the genre and made British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee leading horror stars of the era. He went on to film a number of adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and The Mummy (1959).
Given their subject matter and lurid approach, Fisher's films, though commercially successful, were largely dismissed by critics during his career. It is only in recent years that Fisher has become recognised as an auteur in his own right. His films are characterised by a blend of fairy-tale, myth and sexuality. They draw heavily on Christian themes, and there is usually a hero who defeats the powers of darkness by a combination of faith in God and reason, in contrast to other characters, who are either blindly superstitious or bound by a cold, godless rationalism (as noted by critic Paul Leggett in Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion, 2001). For a detailed discussion of Fisher's works, see The Charm of Evil: The Films of Terence Fisher by Wheeler Winston Dixon (Metuchen N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991).
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