Terence Fisher

Terence Fisher Is Best Known As The Director Who Made Most Of The Classic Hammer Horrors - Including The Curse Of Frankenstein, Dracula And The Devil Rides Out. But There Is More To Terence Fisher Than Hammer Horror. In A Busy Twenty-five-year Career, He Directed Fifty Films, Not Just Horrors But Also Thrillers, Comedies, Melodramas And Science-fiction. This Book Offers An Appreciation Of All Of Fisher's Films And Also Gives A Sense Of His Place In British Film History. Looking At Fisher's Career As A Whole Not Only Underlines His Importance As A Film-maker But Also Casts A New, Interesting Light On The Areas In Which He Worked - Gainsborough Melodrama, The 1950s B Film, 1960s Science-fiction And, Of Course, Hammer, One Of The Most Successful Independent Film Companies In The History Of British Cinema.