Hammer’s John Gore Has Plans for Resurrecting More of the Studio’s Horror Classics
Hammer’s John Gore has revealed that he has plans to resurrect more of the studio’s horror classics in one way or another.
Back in May, we reported here on Dread Central that Hammer had pulled off something pretty extraordinary: the long-lost, uncensored version of Terence Fisher’s 1958 Dracula, released in the United States as Horror of Dracula, had finally been reconstructed and restored in 4K.
This is the version starring Christopher Lee as Count Dracula and Peter Cushing as Van Helsing that audiences were never supposed to see again.
As we previously reported, more than three minutes were removed from the film for being too bloody, violent and sexual. The complete version survived theatrically in Japan, but the material was considered lost for decades. Crucially, pristine reels of that Japanese version were eventually discovered in Warner Bros.’ archive, allowing Hammer and Silver Salt Restoration to reconstruct the film from significantly better materials than those used for previous restorations.
