That's good to know, Ted. The only American horror that had any success in the first half of the 50's was the 3D and in blazing color House Of Wax, which was 1953. This was only a couple of years after the success of the sci-fi The Thing, which featured a Frankenstein-looking alien, admittedly a contemporary film, very high tech, but still, it harked back to when Hollywood made monster movies. So too did two produced by George Pal, War Of the Worlds, with its flying creepycrawlers, and The Naked Jungle, with its marching ants. At around the same time Jack Arnold was doing nicely with his creature sci-fi. All all this up, remove the pure sci-fi from the equation,--there was already enought of that--and look at the potential for horror and one can almost see Price and his wax museum as an inspiration for Hammer's Lee and Cushing Frank-Drac pix of just a few years later.