Hammer Films by John Mccarty

Hammer Films by John Mccarty

Why is Hammer so popular? Hammer Film Productions put the genre of British horror on the map with such controversial thrillers as The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula and went on to become the most influential film factory in the history of horror cinema since Universal. Its colourful string of sumptuous looking (on remarkably low budgets), groundbreakingly graphic Gothic horror, crime and adventure films with an erotic flare struck the first blow to the walls of screen censorship and created a style of genre filmmaking that is still emulated today in such films as Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, and the Hughes Brothers' From Hell. What's in it? An informed history of the company that began as a distributor called Exclusive Films in the 1930s, then moved into making low budget, second-billed suspense films and mysteries under that banner up until the 1950s. After adopting the name Hammer - after one of the company's founders - they hit box office pay dirt with a big screen adaptation of the classic BBC serial The Quatermass Xperiment in 1956. The Pocket Essential Hammer Films takes an in-depth look at the classic Hammer movies from the cult favourites to overlooked and underrated gems. Here you'll find in depth profiles of the creative talent who shaped the �Hammer style� behind and in front of the camera and became icons to a generation of filmgoers and filmmakers; appendices that include a complete Hammer filmography (including the studio's forays into episodic television and documentaries about the studio), plus a checklist of the best Hammer web sites in the Internet.

John McCarty is the author of the novel Atavar Speaks and many books on film, including the cult classic Splatter Movies, which gave that controversial genre its name, as well as The Films of Mel Gibson, The Modern Horror Film, The Fearmakers, The Sleaze Merchants, The Complete Films of John Huston, Movie Psychos and Madman. He lives in upstate New York, USA.

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ISBN 13	9781904048114
ISBN 10	1904048110
Title	Hammer Films
Author	John Mccarty
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oldcastle Books Ltd
Year published	2002-10-30
Number of pages	96
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