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Looking for reviews of films directed by Terence Fisher? Cinafilm has a total of 1,311 reviews across 23 movies directed by Terence Fisher.
Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 58%.
Dracula is Terence Fisher's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 337 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Terence Fisher is Spaceways, with a score of 37% based on 3 reviews.
Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a film director who worked for Hammer Films. He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London, England.
Fisher was one of the most prominent horror directors of the second half of the 20th century. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. His first major gothic horror film was The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), which launched Hammer's long association with the genre and made British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee leading horror stars of the era. He went on to film a number of adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and The Mummy (1959).
Given their subject matter and lurid approach, Fisher's films, though commercially successful, were largely dismissed by critics during his career. It is only in recent years that Fisher has become recognised as an auteur in his own right. His films are characterised by a blend of fairy-tale, myth and sexuality. They draw heavily on Christian themes, and there is usually a hero who defeats the powers of darkness by a combination of faith in God and reason, in contrast to other characters, who are either blindly superstitious or bound by a cold, godless rationalism (as noted by critic Paul Leggett in Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion, 2001). For a detailed discussion of Fisher's works, see The Charm of Evil: The Films of Terence Fisher by Wheeler Winston Dixon (Metuchen N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991).
Terence Fisher has directed films starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Ripper and Thorley Walters.
Terence Fisher has collaborated with these film directors: Francis Searle and Antony Darnborough.
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