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Terence Fisher has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Dracula.
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Dracula
1958 · Movie · Director
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · Movie · Director
Top 13%Max · Included

The Mummy
1959 · Movie · Director
Top 16%Max · Included

The Revenge of Frankenstein
1958 · Movie · Director
Top 22%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959 · Movie · Director
Top 40%Prime Video · Included

Island of Terror
1966 · Movie · Director
Top 51%Tubi · Free w/ ads
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux

Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur

Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson

The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower

A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza

Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones

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Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee
After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward Hyde, a sadistic, evil creature whose pleasure is murder.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee

A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray