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. His first major gothic horror film was ...
Terence Fisher was a British film director who made his mark with a series of horror films for Hammer Studios, featuring Frankenstein, Dracula, and other monsters. He was known for his realistic and complex characterization, his dynamic style, and his defiance of conventional horror conventions.
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Terence Fisher was a prominent horror director who worked for Hammer Films and introduced gothic horror in full colour. He directed many adaptations of classic horror subjects, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
A broke American in London meets a woman who offers to pay him for a marriage of convenience. He agrees, but awakes bloodied in a strange place, having unknowingly become entangled in her father's murder. Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Eleanor Summerfield. Votes: 647.
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 ...
Learn about the life and career of Terence Fisher, the man who revolutionized British horror cinema with his adaptations of Frankenstein, Dracula, and other classics. Discover how he created the Hammer Style, influenced by James Whale and Jimmy Sangster, and faced challenges and controversies in his later years.
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.
