'Hammer Film Productions' is a film production company based in the UK which was founded in 1934.
The films created by Hammer Films were cheap to create as a result of using cleverly designed, often second-hand sets and using British actors for lots of the roles.
Hammer Films enjoyed great success, mainly due to a variety of distribution partnerships made with major American studios such as Warner Bros.
The company stopped making films around the mid 1980's when the horror market became saturated and funding from American companies stopped.
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