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This is a list of films made by Hammer Film Productions.
The list does not include the 13 hour-long television episodes from Hammer House of Horror, broadcast in 1980, nor the 13 hour-long television episodes from Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, broadcast in 1984.
These are the known, theatrically released, feature-length films produced or co-produced by Hammer Productions. Shorter works and television productions are listed separately. When two titles are shown for a single film, the first title is that as released in the U.K., the second in the U.S. During its most productive period of activity (1947−1979), Hammer released 158 films, 50 of which can be regarded as falling within the horror genre.
| Genre | |
|---|---|
| Horror/Science Fiction | |
| Psychological Thriller | |
| Prehistoric Adventure | |
| No. | Year | Title | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 167 | 2008 | Beyond the Rave | ||
| 168 | 2010 | Let Me In | [lower-alpha 53] | |
| 169 | 2011 | The Resident | ||
| 170 | 2011 | Wake Wood | ||
| 171 | 2012 | The Woman in Black | ||
| 172 | 2014 | The Quiet Ones | ||
| 173 | 2014 | The Woman in Black: Angel of Death | [lower-alpha 54] | |
| 174 | 2019 | The Lodge | ||
| 175 | 2023 | Doctor Jekyll |
Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic horror and fantasy films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Many of these involve classic horror characters such as Baron Victor Frankenstein, Count Dracula, and the Mummy, which Hammer reintroduced to audiences by filming them in vivid colour for the first time. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies, as well as, in later years, television series.
Cecil André Mesritz, known professionally as André Morell, was an English actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959).
Val Guest was an English film director and screenwriter. Beginning as a writer of comedy films, he is best known for his work for Hammer, for whom he directed 14 films, and for his science fiction films. He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the early 1930s until the early 1980s.
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Barbara Shelley was an English film and television actress. She appeared in more than a hundred films and television series. She was particularly known for her work in horror films, notably Village of the Damned; Dracula, Prince of Darkness; Rasputin, the Mad Monk and Quatermass and the Pit.
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