Editing Hammer Film Productions (section)

==Sequels==
Hammer consolidated their success by turning their most successful films into series.  This was a practice they had making ''Dick Barton'' movies which they continued to their horror movies and other genres.

===Quatermass===
The success of ''[[The Quatermass Xperiment]]'' (1955; ''The Creeping Unknown'' in the U.S.) led to two sequels:
*''[[Quatermass 2]]'' (1957; ''Enemy from Space'' in the U.S.)
*''[[Quatermass and the Pit (film)|Quatermass and the Pit]]'' (1967; ''Five Million Years to Earth'' in the U.S.)

There were also two ''Quatermass''-style films:
*''[[X the Unknown]]'' (1956)
*''[[The Abominable Snowman (film)|The Abominable Snowman]]'' (1957; ''The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas'' in the U.S.) – also based on a script by Nigel Kneale and directed by Val Guest

===Frankenstein===
[[File:Curse of Frankenstein 1957.jpg|thumb|[[Christopher Lee]] as the Creature in ''[[The Curse of Frankenstein]]'' (1957)]]
Six sequels to ''[[The Curse of Frankenstein]]'' were released between 1958 and 1974:
* ''[[The Revenge of Frankenstein]]'' (1958)
* ''[[The Evil of Frankenstein]]'' (1964)
* ''[[Frankenstein Created Woman]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed]]'' (1969)
* ''[[The Horror of Frankenstein]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell]]'' (1974)

All starred [[Peter Cushing]] as Baron Frankenstein, except ''The Horror of Frankenstein'' (which was not a sequel, but a tongue-in-cheek remake of ''The Curse of Frankenstein''), in which [[Ralph Bates]] took the title role. ''The Evil of Frankenstein'' stars Cushing but due to an agreement made with Universal to more closely [[pastiche]] their version of the Frankenstein story, it re-tells the Baron's history in flashbacks that bear no resemblance to the two earlier Hammer Frankenstein films and it portrays the Baron with a very different personality, resulting in a film which permanently breaks the chronological continuity of the series. Each subsequent movie in the series contains elements that do not relate to (or flatly contradict) the events of the movie that went before, whilst the characteristics of Cushing's Baron vary wildly from film to film, resulting in a series that does not progress as a self-contained narrative cycle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.horror-database.co.uk/reviews/gothic/hammerfrankenstein.html#Evil%20of%20Frankenstein|title=Hammer Horror Frankenstein Series|archive-date=13 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213034607/http://www.horror-database.co.uk/reviews/gothic/hammerfrankenstein.html|access-date=3 November 2013|work=Horror Database}}
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[[David Prowse]] was the only actor to star as the creature twice in the Hammer Frankenstein series; he reprised the role from ''The Horror of Frankenstein'' in ''Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell''.

Hammer also produced a half-hour pilot titled ''[[Tales of Frankenstein]]'' (1958) that was intended to premiere on American television; it was never picked up, but is now available on DVD. [[Anton Diffring]] took over Cushing's role of Baron Frankenstein.{{sfn|Meikle|1996|pages=59-60}}

===Dracula===
[[File:Dracula 1958 c.jpg|thumb|[[Christopher Lee]] in ''[[Dracula (1958 film)|Dracula]]'', a.k.a. ''[[Dracula (1958 film)|Horror of Dracula]]'' (1958) ]]
Eight sequels to ''[[Dracula (1958 film)|Dracula]]'' were released between 1960 and 1974:

* ''[[The Brides of Dracula]]'' (1960)
* ''[[Dracula: Prince of Darkness]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Dracula Has Risen from the Grave]]'' (1968)
* ''[[Taste the Blood of Dracula]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Scars of Dracula]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Dracula A.D. 1972]]'' (1972)
* ''[[The Satanic Rites of Dracula]]'' (1973; ''Count Dracula and his Vampire Bride'' in the U.S.)
* ''[[The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires]]'' (1974; ''The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula'' in the U.S.), featuring [[John Forbes-Robertson (actor)|John Forbes-Robertson]] as Dracula in place of Christopher Lee.

[[Peter Cushing]] appeared in the first and final three sequels (with archive footage also used in ''Dracula: Prince of Darkness''). [[Christopher Lee]] appeared in all the sequels except the first and last.
The first five sequels were direct sequels to the original. ''The Brides of Dracula'' did not include Dracula but is still considered part of the series since [[Peter Cushing]] reprises his role as Doctor Van Helsing and battles vampire Baron Meinster ([[David Peel (actor)|David Peel]]) and the film makes several direct references to the 1958 original. [[Christopher Lee]] returned as Dracula for the following six films, which employed ingenuity in finding new ways to resurrect the Count. Only archive footage of Cushing was used in ''Dracula: Prince of Darkness'' and he wouldn't return to the Dracula series until ''Dracula A.D. 1972''. Hammer upped the graphic violence and gore with ''Scars of Dracula'' in an attempt to re-imagine the character to appeal to a younger audience, but the movie performed poorly at the box-office which led to a further change of style with the remaining three films. ''Dracula A.D. 1972'' and ''The Satanic Rites of Dracula'' were not period pieces like their predecessors, but had a contemporary 1970s London setting. Now set in a new timeline, Peter Cushing appeared in both films, playing Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing, as well as his own grandfather (Lawrence Van Helsing) in the prologue of the first of the two films. Cushing returned for a final time as Professor Van Helsing in the horror / martial arts crossover ''The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires'', a movie this time set primarily in 1904.

Christopher Lee grew increasingly disillusioned with the direction the character was being taken and with the poor quality of later scripts, although he did improve these slightly himself by adding lines of dialogue from the original novel. Lee speaks at least one line taken from [[Bram Stoker]] in every Dracula film he appeared in, except for ''Dracula: Prince of Darkness'' in which the Count does not talk at all (Lee claimed repeatedly he was appalled by his dialogue in that film and refused to speak it, but Jimmy Sangster rebutted that no dialogue was written for the character). He was also concerned about typecasting, and after filming ''The Satanic Rites of Dracula'' he finally quit the series.  [[John Forbes-Robertson (actor)|John Forbes-Robertson]] took over the role for one final outing as the Count.

===The Mummy===
Three sequels to ''[[The Mummy (1959 film)|The Mummy]]'' were released between 1964 and 1971:

* ''[[The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb]]'' (1964)
* ''[[The Mummy's Shroud]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]]'' (1971)

[[Peter Cushing]] and [[Christopher Lee]] appeared in none of the Mummy sequels, which had stories and characters unrelated to the 1959 film and all three were relegated to second feature status, as by the mid-1960s, Hammer's films were often intended for [[double feature]]s. Often two films would be shot back-to-back with the same sets and costumes to save money, and then each film would be shown on a separate double feature to prevent audiences noticing any recycling, as for example in ''[[The Plague of the Zombies]]'' and ''[[The Reptile]]'' (both 1966). ''[[The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb]]'' supported the slightly more prestigious ''[[The Gorgon]]'', whilst ''[[The Mummy's Shroud]]'' was a second feature for ''[[Frankenstein Created Woman]]''.

''[[Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]]'' was a modern-day take on [[Bram Stoker]]'s ''[[The Jewel of Seven Stars]]'' and featured [[Valerie Leon]] as a reincarnated Egyptian princess, rather than a mummy. The same novel served as the basis for the 1980 [[Charlton Heston]] film, ''[[The Awakening (1980 film)|The Awakening]]'', and a later direct-to-video feature, ''[[Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy]]'', starring [[Lou Gossett Jr.]]