Little Shoppe of Horrors: The Journal of Classic British Horror Films

LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #50, published in June 2024, featuring 108 pages and also color images, you get the inside story on the filming of Hammer Film’s 1967 Dennis Wheatley Classic, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT. Behind the scenes info, plus a study of the business relationship between Hammer, 7Arts and 20th Century Fox, that produced 17 movies between 1965 and 1967. The daughters of FX man, Michael Stainer-Hutchins, talk about the much maligned Special Effects for the film, which were good for the times and the budget allowed. Constantine Nasr does an analysis of Richard Matheson’s screenplay against what appears in the final film. Biography of Anton Diffring, German-actor living in England (he was Jewish but often portrayed nazi characters – his family fled Germany in the late 1930s). John Stoker’s look at the inside story of Roald Dahl’s TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED television series.Finally, a deep-dive into the last of the Hammer Frankenstein series – FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL (1972) – which would be master director, Terence Fisher’s, last work – Fisher took a tight budget and small sets and made a masterpiece of its kind. Read more