Great Britain's Hammer Studios was responsible for singlehandedly transforming the horror genre into the more graphic mode that it is today with its Frankenstein and Dracula films. Beginning in 1957 with THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the studio made a profitable move toward fantasy, horror, and sci-fi that brought it to an international audience and created a seminal trend in moviemaking. This well-made documentary uses clips from famous Hammer films interspersed with interviews with stars, including Hazel Court, Ingrid Pitt, Raquel Welch, Jimmy Sangster, and Val Court, among many others. The film is narrated by Frankenstein/ Dracula veterans Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, tracing the rise and fall of one of the most notorious studios is movie history.