Monster Madness: Gothic Revival of Horror

Just when horror fans felt their favorite genre may have been put to rest by 1940s monster mashes (and the Abbott and Costello comedies), along came the era of drive-in classics and the emergence of an upstart British studio known as Hammer Films. This de-fright-ful documentary digs up a fresh accounting of the scary films of the 1950s through the 1970s, including the works of Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, and Hammer's vivid Gothic chillers. 90 min. Soundtrack: English.