"Don Sharp, a veteran film director who had never watched a horror movie until Hammer Films — the English studio described, usually admiringly, as dripping cinematic blood — enlisted him in the mid-1960s to helprevivify its presentation of Gothic terror, died on Sunday. He was 89.
British Film InstituteDon Sharp, right, on the set of "Rasputin: The Mad Monk" in 1965, with Richard Pasco.
Hammer announced the death, but did not give a cause or a location.
To aficionados like Martin Scorsese, Hammer’s vampires, monsters, werewolves and exposed bosoms were the perfect escape, particularly in Technicolor. The joke that Hammer started with a title and a lavish poster and then figured out the story was pretty much true."
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