Direction: Terence Fisher

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Michael Gough · Melissa Stribling

Synopsis Posing as a librarian, erstwhile vampire hunter Jonathan Harker travels to Castle Dracula where he is welcomed by the courtly Count Dracula. Harker attempts to kill Dracula and eliminate the vampire menace that Dracula spreads but the sun sets before...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Hazel Court · Robert Urquhart · Christopher Lee

Synopsis Baron Victor Frankenstein, in prison for murder and trying to evade the guillotine, tells a priest how he and his mentor, Paul Krempe, had performed many scientific experiments, eventually leading to the resurrection of a dead body. The baron's obsession...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Francis Matthews · Michael Gwynne · Eunice Gayson

Synopsis With the help of Karl, the crippled dwarf hangman, whom he promises to give a new body, Frankenstein escapes the gallows and they hang the officiating priest instead. Under the name Stein, Frankenstein sets up practice in the town of...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Simon Ward · Veronica Carlson · Freddie Jones

Synopsis Abandoning his latest experiment after a drunk stumbles into his secret lab, Dr. Frankenstein finds new lodgings with a sweet young thing whose boyfriend works in the local sanitarium. Frankenstein blackmails the lovers into complicity with his latest experiment, kidnapping...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Christopher Lee · Barbara Shelley · Andrew Keir · Francis Matthews

Synopsis Two couples traveling in eastern Europe decide to visit Karlsbad despite dire local warnings. Left outside the village by a coachman terrified at the approach of night, they find themselves in the local castle and are surprised at the hospitality...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · André Morell · Christopher Lee · Marla Landi

Synopsis Sherlock Holmes gets the Gothic treatment in this mix of mystery and supernatural horror from Britain’s Hammer Films. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment of science and reason (which also made him a great...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Susan Denberg · Robert Morris · Thorley Walters

Synopsis Baron Frankenstein’s lab assistant Hans is sentenced to the gullotine for the murder of an innkeeper, although this is something that was really conducted by three drunken libertines. However Frankenstein has been conducting a revolutionary series of experiments that allow...

Direction Terence Fisher · Antony Darnborough

Cast Jean Simmons · Dirk Bogarde · David Tomlinson · Marcel Poncin

Synopsis A young British woman (Jean Simmons) attends the 1889 Paris Exposition with her brother, only to find him mysteriously missing the morning after their arrival. When the hotel staff insists that neither her brother nor his hotel room ever existed,...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Herbert Lom · Heather Sears · Edward de Souza · Michael Gough

Synopsis Hammer's version of the Phantom starts right in with odd happenings at the opera like missing music, destroyed instruments and stories of ghosts. On opening night of the opera (which is about Joan of Arc) a man is hanged and...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Richard Pasco · Barbara Shelley

Synopsis Jules Heitz, a professor of literature at Heidelberg University, arrives in the village of Vandorf to investigate the circumstances of his son and his son’s girlfriend’s deaths. He is suspicious when Namaroff, the local doctor, refuses to show him the...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Anton Diffring · Hazel Court · Christopher Lee · arnold Marle

Synopsis Based on the play The Man in Half Moon Street by Barré Lyndon which had been previously filmed in 1945. Anton Diffring stars as a century-old artist who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly replacing certain glands — in transplants...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Yvonne Monlaur · David Peel · Martita Hunt

Synopsis A young French woman unknowingly frees a vampire. He wreaks havoc, sucking blood and creating more of the undead to carry out his evil deeds. One of the better Hammer vampire films.

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Christopher Lee · Charles Gray · Nike Arrighi · Leon Greene

Synopsis The Duc de Richleau and Rex Van Ryn arrive for dinner at the home of their good friend Simon Aron. But Simon has forgotten about them and is instead holding a function of his astronomical society. But de Richleau realizes...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast George Brent · Marguerite Chapman · Raymond Huntley · Peter Reynolds

Synopsis The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in him getting enmeshed in blackmail and murder.

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Shane Briant · David Prowse · Madeline Smith

Synopsis Last of the Hammer Frankenstein films, this one deals with the Baron hiding out in an insane asylum, so that he may continue his experiments with reanimating the dead, along with inmate Dr. Helder, who has been institutionalized for conducting...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Oliver Reed · Yvonne Romain · Catherine Feller · Clifford Evans

Synopsis A servant girl is raped by a beggar in a castle dungeon and gives birth to a son. The boy looks normal but as he matures he begins displaying some strange characteristics, most notably a bad reaction to full moons:...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Paul Massie · Dawn Addams · Christopher Lee · David Kossoff

Synopsis Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Yvonne Furneaux · Eddie Byrne

Synopsis Three British archeologists discover the grave of an important Egyptian female priest who has died about four millenia ago. But when they open it a bad curse falls on them for having woken up the mighty guard of the grave...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Paul Henreid · Lizabeth Scott · André Morell · Susan Stephen

Synopsis A plastic surgeon has a brief fling with a concert pianist, then she leaves him to go back to her previous boyfriend. In order to "keep" her, he operates on a patient--a female criminal on the run--and changes her face...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast James Hayter · Barbara Payton · Stephen Murray · John Van Eyssen

Synopsis Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of...