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Episode 106 - Hammer's Quatermass Films
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955), Quatermass 2 (1957), Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Everyone knows the name Hammer Films (at least, we hope they do!) but most people associate it with gothic horror, particularly their reimagining of the Universal classic Frankenstein in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). Yet Hammer had been around long before Peter Cushing breathed life into that first stitched-together corpse. Founded in the 1930s as a distribution company, the studio gradually moved into producing films, often adapted from popular TV and radio series.
In 1953, the BBC aired a six-part…
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