Famed British horror film studio Hammer had been making names for themselves for more than three decades as the purveyors of some of the most atmospheric and twisted horror films of the time, when they ground to a halt in 1976 with their last theatrical feature To the Devil a Daughter. A changing film market and some outdated precepts within the company itself led to this halting of the film arm of Hammer Studios, but the company made one last attempt to retain name recognition in the early eighties by producing two 13-episode anthology television series: House of Horror and House of Mystery and Suspense, before seemingly vanishing. The first series, 1980's House of Horror,
Famed British horror film studio Hammer had been making names for themselves for more than three decades as the purveyors of some of the most atmospheric and twisted horror films of the time, when they ground to a halt in 1976 with their last theatrical feature To the Devil a Daughter. A changing film market and some outdated precepts within the company itself led to this halting of the film arm of Hammer Studios, but the company made one last attempt to retain name recognition in the early eighties by producing two 13-episode anthology television series: House of Horror and House of Mystery and Suspense, before seemingly vanishing. The first series, 1980's House of Horror,