8 Classic Hammer Horror Films You Need To See

Loved by horror fans the world over, and rightly so, The Curse... would be the first pairing of Cushing and Lee. While awaiting his execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein recants his tale to a visiting priest.

It is one of horror and the fall from grace of a brilliant young mind who pushed the boundaries of science to bring life. Unfortunately in his quest to make the prefect man he uses a damaged brain, causing his creation to become a monster who breaks free and goes on a rampage, leaving Baron Frankenstein to take the blame.

But sometimes, them's the breaks.

Where many will point to Universal's 1931 classic as the definitive telling of Mary Shelley's story, this 1957 rendition is as easily as good, if not better.

In fact, Universal were so worried by this production that they did everything they could to make sure Hammer didn't reference their version in any way. This explains why Lee, as the monster, was heavily caked in makeup that in no way resembled Boris Karloff's creature.

This was also Peter Cushing's first lead role and it is safe to say that it surpassed all exceptions.

Raking in a total of eight million on just under a three hundred thousand budget, this film, perhaps more than any other, really set the Hammer Horror revolution on its way. A revolution that a year later would lead to...