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Re: The Terence Fisher Appreciation thread
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I'm not a big subscriber to "hada been, coulda been, shoulda been, oughta been" on what MIGHT have happened with other directors, etc.Maybe a sports team SHOULD have won...but they didn't. Maybe Godfrey Grayson or Francis Searle or Mortimer Snerd COULD have directed HORROR OF DRACULA just as well as Terence Fisher. But they didn't. HE did. And the films THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE HORROR OF DRACULA, HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY, THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, THE GORGON, DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS, FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT & FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED. He directed those. They are great films because of Terence Fisher, not some other "might have been" director. A typical Fisher staging - in BRIDES OF DRACULA, Peter Cushing as Van Helsing is in the chateau looking around. And in the background, almost a deep focus shot, we see Martita Hunt coming in. Beautifully handled and framed. Fisher at his best.
I do agree with Joe that Fisher has received his due from many sides. I do not agree that just anyone could have made these films, no more than I think Lew Landers could have made James Whale's films if given the same high budgets and crews/performers. I THINK if Fisher had been at Universal during the 30s and 40s, during the 30s he would have been right behind Whale. In the 40s he would have been their top director. How is THAT for trying to read how things MIGHT have been!!
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