The Curse Of Frankenstein (devil's Advocates)
by Marcus Harmes /
2015 / English / PDF, EPUB
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Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives
where thrilled with the box office returns:
Critics abhorred it, audiences loved it, and Hammer executives
where thrilled with the box office returns:The Curse of
Frankenstein
The Curse of
Frankenstein was big business. The 1957 film is the first to
bring together in a horror movie the 'unholy two', Christopher Lee
and Peter Cushing, together with the Hammer company, and director
Terence Fisher, combinations now legendary among horror fans. In
his Devil's Advocate, Marcus Harmes goes back to where the Hammer
horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of
perspectives: as a loose literaryadaptation of Mary Shelley's
novel; as a film that had, for legal reasons, to avoid adapting
from James Whale's 1931 film for Universal Pictures; and as one
which found immediate sources of inspiration in the Gainsborough
bodice rippers of the 1940s and the poverty row horrors of the
1950s. Later Hammer horrors may have consolidated the reputation of
the company and the stars, but these works had their starting point
in the creative and commercial choices made by the team behind
was big business. The 1957 film is the first to
bring together in a horror movie the 'unholy two', Christopher Lee
and Peter Cushing, together with the Hammer company, and director
Terence Fisher, combinations now legendary among horror fans. In
his Devil's Advocate, Marcus Harmes goes back to where the Hammer
horror production started, looking at the film from a variety of
perspectives: as a loose literaryadaptation of Mary Shelley's
novel; as a film that had, for legal reasons, to avoid adapting
from James Whale's 1931 film for Universal Pictures; and as one
which found immediate sources of inspiration in the Gainsborough
bodice rippers of the 1940s and the poverty row horrors of the
1950s. Later Hammer horrors may have consolidated the reputation of
the company and the stars, but these works had their starting point
in the creative and commercial choices made by the team behindThe Curse of Frankenstein
The Curse of Frankenstein. In the film sparks fly, new life
is created and horrors unleashed but the film itself was a jolt to
1950s cinema going that has never been entirely surpassed.
. In the film sparks fly, new life
is created and horrors unleashed but the film itself was a jolt to
1950s cinema going that has never been entirely surpassed.