Terence Fisher
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British film director and film editor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films. 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 , which launched Hammer's association with the genre and made British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee leading horror stars of the era. He went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula , The Mummy , and The Curse of the Werewolf .