Terence Fisher

<p>Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors - including The Curse of Frankenstein Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. But there is more to Terence Fisher than Hammer horror. In a busy twenty-five-year career he directed fifty films not just horrors but also thrillers comedies melodramas and science-fiction. This book offers an appreciation of all of Fisher's films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history. <br><br>Looking at Fisher's career as a whole not only underlines his importance as a film-maker but also casts a new interesting light on the areas in which he worked - Gainsborough melodrama the 1950s B film 1960s science-fiction and of course Hammer one of the most successful independent film companies in the history of British cinema.</p>