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Empire Down: The Phantom of the Opera/The Gorgon
Hammer's five-pictures-per-year deal with Columbia seems to have worn everybody down. By the early 1960s, Terence Fisher has gone from shooting classics like The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula to misfires like The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll and The Brides of Dracula. But Jekyll and Brides were Fishe
Jul 29, 2025 0
Empire Down: The Brides of Dracula/Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
The Brides of Dracula sees Hammer once again taking a page from Universal, in this case doing a Dracula sequel without the Count, focusing instead on female characters. Instead of hampering the movie, Dracula’s absence liberates Brides of Dracula, at least for a little while. In Brides of Dracula, D
Nov 30, 2023 0
Empire Down: The Mummy/The Man Who Could Cheat Death
The Mummy is a challenge for Hammer. It doesn’t give them a classic novel to fall back on, even a messy one like Dracula. The Universal movie lacks the powerful iconography of Frankenstein or Bela Lugosi’s deliciously campy performance in Dracula (or for that matter, The Bride of Frankenstein’s bril
Nov 28, 2023 0
Empire Down: The Revenge of Frankenstein/The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Revenge of Frankenstein picks up right where The Curse of Frankenstein leaves off, and that’s a pretty apt metaphor for the production of Hammer’s early color films. Terence Fisher directed one movie after another, starting principal photography for The Revenge of Frankenstein only three days af
Oct 30, 2023 0