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"A fascinating insight into Hammer's 'unmade' past and the more earthbound horrors of development hell. Visions of celluloid Gothic that are as tantalising as they are fleeting.--Matthew Holness, writer-director of Possum Building on a mix of archival evidence, published accounts, and interviews, Foster's book focuses on horror, offering an alternate history that allows a unique peek at the company's workings. Hammer Goes to Hell is a rigorous and enjoyable book that should please anyone with even a passing interest in Hammer or the history of British horror. It should also be of interest to anyone interested in innovative production histories.--Murray Leeder ""Film & History"" Hammer Films is known the world over for its trailblazing, full colour, gothic horror films. Yet, despite its iconic status it failed to get many a project off the ground. In Hammer Goes to Hell, Kieran Foster explores a number of these projects. Drawing on new research, Foster offers a lively and engaging revisionist history bursting with new information and insight.--Johnny Walker, Author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society and Editor of Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film."

A fascinating insight into Hammer's 'unmade' past and the more earthbound horrors of development hell. Visions of celluloid Gothic that are as tantalising as they are fleeting.--Matthew Holness, writer-director of Possum Written with academic rigour but also in a style accessible to the general reader and horror fan alike, Hammer Goes to Hell is a thorough investigation that demonstrates what archives can reveal about films that never saw the light of day and the value of the unmade film in revisionist production histories.--Valeria Villegas Lindvall ""Journal of British Cinema and Television"" Building on a mix of archival evidence, published accounts, and interviews, Foster's book focuses on horror, offering an alternate history that allows a unique peek at the company's workings. Hammer Goes to Hell is a rigorous and enjoyable book that should please anyone with even a passing interest in Hammer or the history of British horror. It should also be of interest to anyone interested in innovative production histories.--Murray Leeder ""Film & History"" Hammer Films is known the world over for its trailblazing, full colour, gothic horror films. Yet, despite its iconic status it failed to get many a project off the ground. In Hammer Goes to Hell, Kieran Foster explores a number of these projects. Drawing on new research, Foster offers a lively and engaging revisionist history bursting with new information and insight.--Johnny Walker, Author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society and Editor of Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film.

A fascinating insight into Hammer's 'unmade' past and the more earthbound horrors of development hell. Visions of celluloid Gothic that are as tantalising as they are fleeting.--Matthew Holness, writer-director of Possum Building on a mix of archival evidence, published accounts, and interviews, Foster's book focuses on horror, offering an alternate history that allows a unique peek at the company's workings. Hammer Goes to Hell is a rigorous and enjoyable book that should please anyone with even a passing interest in Hammer or the history of British horror. It should also be of interest to anyone interested in innovative production histories.--Murray Leeder ""Film & History"" Hammer Films is known the world over for its trailblazing, full colour, gothic horror films. Yet, despite its iconic status it failed to get many a project off the ground. In Hammer Goes to Hell, Kieran Foster explores a number of these projects. Drawing on new research, Foster offers a lively and engaging revisionist history bursting with new information and insight.--Johnny Walker, Author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society and Editor of Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film.

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Kieran Foster is an Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor of Shadow Cinema (2020) and will publish his monograph, Hammer Goes to Hell, with EUP in 2023.

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