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Originally Posted by Serin  I haven't heard of Amicus films. What films did they make as I may have heard of them just not the studio. |
Actually, you probably have heard of them, but just don't recall. For one thing, they did the two Doctor Who films with Peter Cushing back in the 1960s,
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (with Cushing and Lee, among others);
The House that Dripped Blood (with Cushing, Lee, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, etc.);
Asylum;
Tales from the Crypt;
The Vault of Horror;
The Land that Time Forgot....
Essentially, they were a rival to Hammer, and often used a lot of the same actors, writers, etc. They were similar (many people have confused Hammer and Amicus films), but there's a different feel to the Amicus productions, the color (due to the difference in film stock used, I think) has faded somewhat, and they were a bit more wobbly in quality at times; also they tended to do a lot more anthology films, where Hammer films tended to concentrate on single stories. But quite a few of these are well worth seeing, and at least a fair number are available on DVD, as I recall...
Amicus Productions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Amicus: The Studio that Dripped Blood Amicus Collection, The (US - DVD) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive