Hammer horror

"Hammer horror" is a name for a genre of horror films produced from the 1950s to 1970s by Hammer Film Productions. Though inexpensive, they were popular and have come to enjoy a certain amount of retrospective critical interest. The term is used both specifically to refer to only works produced by Hammer, and to refer to works of that era and in that style. Their later horror works (late 1960s and early 1970s) became known for a European-style of sexual content, including female nudity and lesbianism, most famously with lesbian vampires.

Classic works include:

• Quatermass 2 (1957)
• The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
• Dracula (1958)
• The Mummy (1959)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
• The Curse of the Werewolf (1960)
• The Brides of Dracula (1960)
• The Nanny (1965)
• She (1965)
• One Million Years B.C. (1966)
• The Vampire Lovers (1970)
• Lust for a Vampire (1971)
• Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
• Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1971)
• Twins of Evil (1972)
• To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
• The Lady Vanishes (1979)
• numerous sequels to the most popular works

Intertextuality

• Kate Bush, "Hammer Horror" song (1978)

Further reading

• Wikipedia List of Hammer films