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Aug 30 08 6:55 PM
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Aug 31 08 12:18 AM
Were there many American franchise series in the 50's & 60's?
Aug 31 08 2:32 AM
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.
Aug 31 08 2:54 AM
Aug 31 08 3:20 AM
admittedly not big box-office but good quality performers,
Aug 31 08 4:02 AM
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,
Aug 31 08 4:12 AM
Aug 31 08 11:00 AM
telegonus wrote: 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).
telegonus wrote: ... 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.
Aug 31 08 11:13 AM
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.
Aug 31 08 11:34 AM
LCranston wrote: Young Frankenstein...I personally always liked when the Creature had to scale the castle wall because he was drawn to the violin.
I've always felt that a nice little nod to SON and GHOST of the Universal Frankenstein series in which The Monster--under Ygor's influence--is drawn to the music Ygor plays on his horn... One thing I find strange is that Hammer, despite making films very different in tone to the old Universals, and being prohibited from using the trademark "Karloffian" make-up--still exploited the classic make-up design in their poster art outside of America. Many French (and I believe Mexican) posters portray Chris Lee's "Creature" with a squared-shaped head--a hybrid of what we see in the Hammer Film and the Universal make-up design.
Aug 31 08 12:15 PM
Dunno about that. HOUSE OF WAX did unbelievable business when it opened, making it to #2 that year, as I recall
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Sep 1 08 12:50 AM
"Hammer ... went back to the original source material, the novels, rather than merely copying the Universal films approach." With respect, grg, I don't find Hammer's films to contain any more of Shelley and Stoker that Uni's; I think they forged a "third way" of their own.
Sep 1 08 12:57 AM
I think people here are also forgetting another important horror trilogy that predated it.
Sep 1 08 2:32 AM
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