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Plague of the Zombies, [...]
By the mid 1960s, Hammer had reinvented pretty much all of the original Universal monsters; although the age of the sequel was still in […]
John Gilling
A native of London, John Gilling was born on the 29th of May, 1912. At just 17 years of age he quit his job […]
Reptile, The (Hammer 1966)
In John Gilling’s atmospheric 1966 thriller The Reptile, a small village in Cornwall is suffering from an outbreak of mysterious deaths that are simply […]
Mummy’s Shroud, The (Hammer [...]
On the 18th of May 1967, The Mummy’s Shroud was released as a double-bill with Frankenstein Created Woman. Written and directed by John Gilling, […]
Shadow of the Cat, [...]
Hammer’s The Shadow of the Cat was released on the 1st of May in 1961. Directed by John Gilling, and starring André Morell and […]
