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With 1971’s I, Monster, Amicus opted for a full-length single narrative feature rather than their usual horror vignette approach. Milton Subotsky’s screenplay is probably […]
There is a belief, even among the most devout fans of Hammer horror, that as their Dracula franchise progressed, the films became steadily worse. […]
Hammer’s 1959 retelling of The Mummy took inspiration from the Universal movies which had gone before, but added a visceral new horror to its […]
Dracula AD 1972 has always been seen as one of the worst movies Hammer ever brought to the screen. Roundly derided in its day – […]
Horror stalwart Herbert Lom was born Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru in Prague on the 11th of September, 1917 and would go on […]
Horror composer James Bernard was born in Nathia Gali, India on the 20th of September, 1925. The son of a British Army officer serving […]
American film producer Max J Rosenberg, one half of Amicus productions, was born on the 13th of September, 1914, in The Bronx, New York […]
