The Curse of Frankenstein

...time in glorious Technicolor. The company made more than 200 films, including The Quatermass Xperiment, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Mummy and The Devil Rides Out. It made international stars of...

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..."The Quatermass Xperiment" (1955), it's doubtful the company would have gone on to make the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing features "The Curse of Frankenstein," "Horror of Dracula," and the rest of Hammer's gigantic catalog of edgy...

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...picture with its soon-to-be legendary horror team, Cushing and Lee. Strictly as films come and go, Cushing and Lee had better outings than "The Curse of Frankenstein," but this movie set the standards - blood in vibrant red instead of just...

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Hammer, which was behind literary based horror pics like "Dracula" and "The Curse of Frankenstein" in the 1950s, currently has 15 pics in development and is wrapping up "The Resident" as its first major release since the 1980s.

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...dog. The couple use a pagan ritual. It marks a return of the legendary British film brand that saw the likes of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star in films such as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein. The new film stars Timothy Spall...

In this article: Dracula, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Dog, Frankenstein, Carry on Screaming, and Eva Birthistle

...Frankenstein series. Its worldwide success led to several sequels, and the studio's new versions of ''Dracula '' (1958) and ''The Mummy '' (1959) and established "Hammer Horror" as a distinctive brand of Gothic cinema. The film was directed...

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...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...

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...warnings, Hinds supervised the shooting of a virtually unchanged script. The film was directed by Terence Fisher, with a look that belied its modest budget. Peter Cushing's performance as Baron Victor Frankenstein, and Christopher Lee's...

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...fate of Hammer's previous American releases...and to add an extra emphasis to the unprecedented levels of onscreen gore that the film offered as its major attraction." Warner Bros. handled the film's global distribution. It grossed...

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