Hammer horror and British genre film

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Hammer horror and British genre film · From the mid-1950s the British studio Hammer made colourful horror films at Bray Studios. The musical director John Hollingsworth often commissioned modern concert composers. James Bernard became the regular voice of Hammer. For Dracula (1958) he based the main motif on three notes that follow the rhythm of the name Dracula. His music is loud and direct, with brass, timpani and dissonant strings. Tristram Cary, a pioneer of electronic music, wrote Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Elisabeth Lutyens, one of the first British twelve-tone composers, worked on the studio's psychological thrillers, such as Paranoiac (1963).

Listening

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  Main Title From The Curse of Frankenstein · James Bernard, 1957
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  Dracula · James Bernard, 1958
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  Main Title · Elizabeth Lutyens, 1963

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See also

• Elizabeth Lutyens
• British concert composers (Denham and Ealing)