Is The Exorcist the same as a Hammer Horror?
This was an improvement on Bush's previous single, "Hammer Horror" which had stalled at No.44 a few months earlier.
The first single taken from the album, "Hammer Horror", missed the UK Top 40.
She made her acting debut, aged 27, in 1971 in Hammer Horror's Lust for a Vampire, playing a schoolgirl at a boarding school.
The Quatermass Xperiment is regarded as the first of these "Hammer Horrors".
The birth of Hammer Horror (1955 to 1959)
However, it was in films where he became most prominent during the 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in Hammer's famous range of "Hammer Horror" productions.
Claydon describes the film as influenced by Ghostbusters with a mix of Hammer Horror and Universal's monster movies.
"Hammer Horror" was Kate Bush's third single release and first single from her second album Lionheart.
"Hammer Horror" proved to be a temporary blip as Bush's next single returned her to the top 20.