But he said the success was particularly gratifying because it had been so hard to get some studio executives to move away from horror pictures.

Shaffer wanted the film to be "a little more literate" than the average horror picture.

'Not a horror picture,' Martin replied, trying to be patient.

Its the common horror picture of heroes on the floor.

Since I'm the sole arbiter I can make sure we're not, for example, making too many horror pictures.

Whale inserted lines that made fun of horror pictures, a genre with which he no longer wished to be associated.

Also in film, he has made two smaller horror pictures.

And as in so many teen-age horror pictures, a mutilated corpse triggers a series of further horrors.

Do you want to resurrect a zombie from a grade-B horror picture?

It was one of the first horror pictures made by Hammer Film Productions.