Dracula (1958) The 1958 film, Dracula (or Horror of Dracula in the US, to differentiate it from the 1931 Lugosi version) used the same team that has been so successful with The Curse of Frankenstein. Cushing and Lee, a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, music by James Bernard and direction from Terence Fisher; and they reunited to bring a slick, bloody and entertaining take on the story to the screen. The story is Stoker compressed and distorted with characters having structurally

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) When Hammer began production on a new version of the Frankenstein story, they couldn’t have been aware of what they were about to achieve. Not only was The Curse of Frankenstein to be a great financial success (bringing in more than 70 times its small £65,000 budget), and would determine what Hammer would focus their productions on for the next 20 years, it also ushered in a new golden age of horror that influenced the 60s output of Hitchcock

Before Hammer Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Two actors whose names are synonymous both with each other and with the horror genre – which they seemed to sustain almost by themselves from the late 1950’s to the mid 1970’s. But, as Christopher Lee was all too keen to emphasise, their actual film choices and the different characters they played throughout their careers show there was much more to them than monsters and mad scientists. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, fascinate