![]() ![]() 1972 (1972) and woefully showed how outdated they were by entirely avoiding bringing Dracula into contact with the modern world. Indeed, around the same time as The Exorcist, Hammer attempted to modernise Christopher Lee’s Dracula with Dracula A.D. Up against The Exorcist, with its full frontal barrage of obscenities and blasphemous shock theatrics, the traditional Hammer film, which was rooted in the Victorian past and where sexuality when it eventually emerged came with a giggly adolescence, looked staid. ![]() It was The Exorcist (1973) that brought the Hammer horror film to an end. This period saw a much higher sex content enter the Hammer film, something that had previously remained repressed. ![]() Into the 1970s, their domination of the horror field had begun to falter. Hammer had had enormous success in the late 1950s with their various Frankenstein and Dracula films and on into the 1960s with various sequels to these and florid revamps of other monster themes. ![]() To the Devil a Daughter was the second-to-last theatrically released film ever made by Hammer Films – their remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes (1979) would be their last – and was their last-ever theatrical horror film. ![]()
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