Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years (2018)

Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years is a 2018 US documentary horror film. It features Lisa Bowerman, Veronica Carlson, John Carson, Steve Chibnall. The Warner Bros Years documentary focuses not on the overall history of the Hammer Films studio, but just on their collaborations with Warner Brothers, a total of seven films. There have been a number of documentaries concerning Hammer over the years: ● Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood (1987) ● Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994) ● Legend of Hammer Vampires (2008) ● Legend of Hammer Mummies (2013) ● Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years (2018) "The demise of Hammer is seen as due to several things. One of these was the changing guard at Warner Brothers who lacked interest in the last two Dracula films, not even bothering to release them in the US, before shipping them off to other distributors several years after their UK release with different titles. Another is the success of Warners’ own The Exorcist (1973) and its shock effect and contemporary setting after which Hammer was seen as too cosy and dated. The backing and guarantee of US distribution from Warners drying up simply meant that Hammer, after attempts to garner finance elsewhere, could no longer sustain themselves and closed up doors in the early 1980s."