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This film was said to have saved a revived Hammer.
The Woman In Black was a complete sucsess making over $20,000,000 in the first weekend and a gross budget of over $54,000,000 and a worldwide gross of $127,730,736.
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James Watkins, Director and screenwriter. - A BRITISH director who's best known for The Woman In Black. Nominated for two awards for his directing of Eden Lake.
HAMMER STUDIOS - Production Company, started in the early 1930's and went bankrupt in the late 70's however revived in 2007.
The Curse Of Frankenstein clips
Founded by William Hinds, he started up Hammer Productions in a three-room office!
In the late 1970's Hammer tried to back away from the Gothic/Horror genre, however it had already made such sucsessful films in this genre, no matter what they tried e.g mixing horror with martial arts (To the Devil a Daughter) failed. After the remake and failure of The Lady Vanishes, the company went bankrupt
The first film made by Hammer was called - The Public Life Of Henry The Ninth. This film was made in 1935.
Two years later Hammer went bankrupt, however the company managed to survive and eventually went on to buying more property for offices in order to continue making films.
Wake Wood was then made which had fantastic reviews! However didn't make much money..
After the massive sucsess of The Curse Of Frankenstein, Hammer went on to make Dracula and The Mummy, during this time Hammer had signed with Columbia Pictures, and made various agreements with universal
Hammer films were used to fill gaps in the cinema schedules and "support more expensive features"
The birth of Hammer Horror wasn't until 1955, after Hammers first success of Quatermass and its squeal Quatermass 2, they then went on to get in contact with U.S investment, this later resulted in The Curse Of Frankenstein. This film was made in color and had un-seen gore, blood had never been shown in color ! With a budget of £65,000 this film was a massive success in both the UK AND USA
There were constant rumors of Hammer having new projects however it wasn't until 2007 when Hammer was put under a new owner and announced the studio was going to be restarted by John De Mol. Beyond The Rave was the first production of Hammer in the 20th century, this was a vampire story that was free to watch online.
Between 1959-1974 Hammer made 6 sequals to Frankenstein and 8 sequals to Dracula! Hammer would often re-use sets and costumes to save money.
Hammer went on to make 4 cave-girl themed films including "Slave Girls" and "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth"
After Hammer had dipped into the Film Noir genre and made various other successful films. The market started to change, peoples opinions of films became much more sophisticated. The studio changed to a more modern approach however the films they produced were not appreciated and seriously failed. Scarier films with better horror content were coming out, Hammer specialised in horror and sexual content, as more horror films were coming out Hammer decided to focus more on the sexual path. This led to The Karnstein Trilogy
Hammer then went on to make psychological thrillers, including "Hysteria" and "Fanatic" these films were all very low-budget and usually black and white.
Both television series that ran for 13
episodes each for 51 minutes. Violence
wasnt shown as much in the US version.
This was the last production Hammer did
in the 20th century.
This film, made in 1957 lasted for a total of 83 minutes. The film was based on Mary Shelleys novel! The film had a budget of £65,000 and made just over $7,000,000 so it made a rather big profit!
what made TCOF so interesting was this version was in colour! They also mainly focused on Baron rather than Frankenstein!
"films like this influence my work today!" - Tim Burton