Oh, I know about House Of Wax's incredible box-office, TS. I was referring to its cast as not being regarded as quite top of the line stars (Price, Kirk, Lovejoy, Jones). The sentence maybe should have been edited. That House Of Wax was the second highest grossing film of 1953 (I'm guessing that it did well in the UK as well), further inclines me to the belief that the Hammer people took a look at this florid period horror and got an idea or two from it. My point is a simple one: trying to trace of the origins of the late 50's horror revival, in the States and the UK. Stress on origins. I'm not suggesting in any way that Hammer's early horror pix were literally intended as follow-ups to the earlier American film but rather that its success may have been a factor in Hammer's getting into horror the way they did, in period and in color.