STEPHEN KING
STUART GORDON
TAKASHI MIIKE
TERENCE FISHER
"Terence Fisher was a British director who revitalised the horror genre in the 50s and 60s. His pictures were filmed in vivid technicolor and contained plenty of blood - quite shocking for the audiences of that time. By combining blood, sex and violence with classic horror characters, Fisher, his scriptwriting partner Jimmy Sangster, and the studio they worked for - Hammer - brought horror movies back to box office prominance.
Fisher directed new versions of all the Universal monsters of the 30s and 40s -
Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, Phantom of the Opera, as well as
The Hound of the Baskervilles. The films made stars of Hammer stalwarts Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
Frankenstein and
Dracula in particular were great successes and turned into profitable franchises for the studio.
Though his films were dismissed by critics at that time as lurid, he has come to be regarded as a major influence in modern horror film-making.
Horror of Dracula in particular has come to be regarded as a seminal landmark horror movie. The King of B-movie productions, Roger Corman himself, was clearly influenced by Fisher when he directed his Poe adaptations. Fisher's contribution of revitalising and modernising horror will always be a milestone in the annals of horror cinema." -
NeverEnding
TIM BURTON