Hammer Films' Psychological Thrillers 1950-1972

<p> Hammer Film's is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company's very best films.</p><p> This book takes a chronological film-by-film approach to all of Hammer's thrillers. Well-known classics such as Seth Holt's <I>The Nanny</I> (1965) and <I>Taste of Fear</I> (1961) are discussed together with less well known but equally brilliant films such as <I>The Full Treatment</I> (dir. Val Guest 1960) and Michael Carreras' <I>Maniac</I> (1963). The films' literary ancestry reflection of British society and relation to psychological theories of Freud and Jung architectural metaphor sexuality religion and even Nazi atrocities are all fully explored.</p>