Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Institutional context


A BRITSH FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY
Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for the series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films aswell as producing sci-fi and thriller

During the 1970s the horror market was loss by competitors and the funding from the American which changed the success of the horror hammer films. This could be a reason why there’s not many good British horror films due to the lack of funding how ever with the help of Warner Brothers with the disruption, its gained success

THE BIRTH OF HAMMER HORROR 1955
The horror films is produced are now considered the classic horror film such as:
The Curse of Frankenstein
Dracula
The Mummy

DARK CASTLE ENTERTAINMENT
Dark Castle Entertainment is a division of Silver Pictures, a production house affiliated with Warner Brothers. It was formed in 1999 by Joel SilverRobert Zemeckis, and Gilbert Adler

2002 - Ghost Ship
2003 - Gothika
2005 - House of Wax
2007 - The Reaping
2008 - RocknRolla
2009 - OrphaN

i have put all my findings into a presentation :)

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