The Curse of Frankenstein - Film Bites Week 1 12

From the archive

This film was last shown on 1 December 2013

The Curse Of Frankenstein bursts onto the screen in a flash of continuous action, bright red Technicolor gore and green, dead flesh. Mary Shelley may not have recognised much of it, but the film was an enormous box office success and established Hammer as the studio for sex, gore and X-rated thrills, as well as making stars of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

Film Bites: Hammer House of Horror, 1957-1959

Three film screenings, discussions and study pack for £20 / £15 concessions
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Delve a little deeper with the Showroom’s Film Bites strand. We take a director, genre or theme to explore over three consecutive Sunday afternoons.

Or, you can just pop in and watch one of the films – tickets available at the regular price.

This module will explore the reasons why horror should prove so popular in a period in which Harold Macmillan had claimed that we ‘had never had it so good’. The films provide us with an opportunity to see how ‘horror’ was established in one of the main British film production companies and enable us to see how the work of one director – Terence Fisher (1904-1980), contributed to the development of the horror film in a way which raises questions about auteur theory and it how it may be applied to these films.

Series led by Paul Bareham & Dr Andrew Smith