Hammer Horror

• Dominated throughout the 1960s
• American and British
• Teens werent the main characters (20s + 30s)
• Middle/Upper class characters (contrast with working class from slasher and horror genre)
• Influenced by sex (eg Countess Dracula)
• Alot of stereotypical horror characters eg Frankenstein or Dracula
• Phallic aspects = using teeth as knives
• The bite of a vampire = sexual metaphor
• Theatrical
• Gothic theme (characters and setting)
• Low budget - repetition of use of sets and stages
• Often set in the past (contrasting with slasher)
• Old methods of death which people used to actually do (Eg burn a witch to a cross, behead somebody, or commiting suicide off a bridge)

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT DEMOLISHED HAMMER HORROR BY ADDING MORE HORROR AND MORE SEXUAL REFERENCES, WHICH THE AUDIENCE WERE MORE INTERESTED IN.