The Curse of Frankenstein
1957
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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.
- Film director, film editor
- 18 June 1980 (aged 76), Twickenham, London, England
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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- London, England, UK
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- Twickenham, London, England, UK
Terence Fisher was a British horror director who worked for Hammer Films from 1953 to 1974. He was known for his adaptations of classic horror stories, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy, and for his use of colour, sexuality, and Christian themes.
The Phantom of the Opera: Directed by Terence Fisher. With Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Thorley Walters. An acid-scarred composer has his dwarf helper bring an opera singer to his London sewer hide-out.
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- Drama, Horror, Music
- Terence Fisher
- 1962-08-15
His most famous films are characterised by a blend of fairytale myth and the supernatural alongside themes of sexuality, morality, and "the charm of evil", often drawing heavily on a conservative Christian outlook. Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films.
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.
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).
