I can see the House Of Wax influence on Hammer in its use of color, its period setting, its A level actors, admittedly not big box-office but good quality performers, in its overall air of gentility, of being a top drawer quality film rather than just a standard issue horror. There's a refinement to the movie, a polish, quite different from what had been thought of as typical horror film-making. I see some of the same qualities in the Hammers, the better ones especially.