The Curse of Frankenstein
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Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day.
Terence Fisher. Director: Horror of Dracula. Terence Fisher was born in Maida Vale, England, in 1904. Raised by his grandmother in a strict Christian Scientist environment, Fisher left school while still in his teens to join the Merchant Marine.
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Jan 29, 2002 · Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion. Paperback – January 29, 2002. Some critics in England and France have long maintained that British director Terence Fisher, whose films dominated world markets in the 1950s and 60s, was one of the greatest directors of fantasy films in history.
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May 26, 2024 · Terence Fisher brought unprecedented gore, sensuality, and vibrant colors to classic monster movies, revitalizing the genre. The Curse of Frankenstein focuses on sinister...
Terence Fisher's critical reputation rests almost entirely on the horror films he directed for Hammer in the 1950s and 1960s, but he was a more versatile filmmaker than his horror output suggests. Born in London on 23 February 1904, he served in the Merchant Navy before entering the film industry in 1933.
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 one of the most prominent horror directors of the second half of the 20th century.
Jan 1, 2021 · From The Curse of Frankenstein to The Horror of Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera to The Mummy, and The Curse of the Werewolf to The Devil Rides Out, Terence Fisher was Hammer's acclaimed Gothic specialist, and is celebrated across the globe for directing many of the greatest horror movies of all time.
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Jul 1, 1991 · Terence Fisher was the director who brought the modern Gothic horror film to life in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Fisher has been well served in print, first of all in David Pirie’s original A Heritage of Horror (1973), which Fisher, according to Dalton (453), regarded as the ‘definitive’ analysis of the British horror film, then in Peter Hutchings’s Terence Fisher (2001) and more recently in Wheeler Winston Dixon’s The Films of Terence Fisher (2017).
In 1952, at the age of 48, Fisher joined Hammer Films and toiled on two relatively minor science fiction pictures, The Four-Sided Triangle (which he also co-wrote) and Spaceways. He worked on a bunch of unmemorable thrillers and comedies until 1957, when his career took a turn for the remarkable.
