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Feb 17 09 7:24 PM
Interesting article... although after reading Little Shoppe of Horrors' excellent Amicus issue, I'd question some of Hodgkinson's conclusions.
Amicus films were typically brooding and claustrophobic; they were far darker, and much less camp, than the horror films of the same period produced by the more famous Hammer studios.
Er... okay. Guess he never saw THESE ARE THE DAMNED.
"Hammer was a business set-up," the late, legendary horror director Freddie Francis told this paper in 1995. "Had it dealt in garbage disposal, it would have been just as successful. Milton Subotsky from Amicus, on the other hand, was a real horror buff."
Garbage disposal? Ooo, snap, Freddie! (Although was Freddie really legendary? Yeah, maybe he was, but as a cinematographer, not a director.) Yeah, it's great that Milton was a real horror fan, although I'm not sure this necessarily translated into demonstrably better horror pictures.
Yet Crypt, which stars Joan Collins as an unfaithful wife who kills her husband only to be killed herself by a man dressed as Santa Claus, was one of the most successful films of 1972. It was second only to The Godfather at the US box office, and spawned a follow-up, The Vault of Horror.
Wuh? This makes it sound like TALES was the second highest grossing film of 1972 in the U.S. (but not according to this chart). More likely, it simply finished 2nd one week at the box office.
One of Amicus's most notorious titles was Asylum
Most notorious? Why? For Amicus, it seemed fairly typical.
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