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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That director is Terence Fisher, a name you might not know but whose work you certainly do. He, Roy Ward Baker, and Freddie Francis directed more films for Hammer than anyone and deserve to be...
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).
