OT: History of Amicus Studios

[Gothick]

Fans,

many of us who grew up loving Dark Shadows also grew up watching some of the fabulous films of Amicus studios either in the movie theatre or at home on afternoon and late-night showings.  Now the legendary Hammer film fanzine, The Little Shoppe of Horrors, is publishing a book-length history of Amicus as their 2008 issue:

http://www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com/

Some of Amicus' more celebrated productions include Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, the film version of Dr. Who and the Daleks starring Peter Cushing, Torture Garden, The Skull, the House that Dripped Blood, and many others.

I ordered some zines through the website earlier this year and the service was prompt and efficient.

G.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

The House That Dripped Blood - now there's a tittle that's a blast from my past. I remember really enjoying it when it came out in '71, but I haven't seen it since. And Nyree Dawn Porter - wow - I haven't even thought of her in decades, much less seen her...

[Charles_Ellis]

To me the late Ms. Porter will always be Irene Foryste (sigh)!

[Gerard]

Such wonderful films and such memories!  Back when I was a kid one of our local theaters would show, for free, horror movies on the Saturday before Halloween.  For the younger fry, there would be a matinee with a movie that was not quite as bloody (usually a Godzilla flick), and in the evening more adult fare, quite often one of the afore-mentioned classics, along with such cinematic enjoyments as one of the Corman/Price/Poe films, etc.  When I was in junior high, I finally got permission to go to the evening presentation; that's where I had my first exposure to Amicus movies as well as all the rest.

Gerard

[Lydia]

To me the late Ms. Porter will always be Irene Forsyte (sigh)!

Oh yes, oh yes.

[David]

I think I may have posted this before:
My love of horror began with Amicus:
The Deadly Bees was the first horror film I went to see, in the Spring of 1967.
I'm still afraid of bees to this day!

Six months later I discovered DS, and the rest, as they say, is history!

Little Shoppe of Horrors is a wonderful magazine!
Publisher/editor Richard Klemensen lives in Des Moines, a city now under siege from floods.
I hope Richard's OK

David

[bluefielder]

I loved The House That Dripped Blood.  I haven't seen that one in years.  I know that I have seen it at least a dozen times.