Good points, Bromstoker, and I'll give it some thought. The Euro-horror revival that began with the Hammers reinvented not only the genre but the past, in a way that Americans could accept. No need to demystify or deconstruct. It was a whole new ball game. No one mistook the mayhem that was coming from Bray for that far more quaint happenings at the old Uni. If you think about it, the new horror cycle kicked off by Hammer was essentially post-modern, though that term was never used at the time (to the best of my knowledge) to describe the Hammer output.