Amicus Productions
Was: ( " friend " Latin ) was a British film production company in the early 1960s by the two U.S. producers and scriptwriters Subotsky Milton ( 1921-1991 ) and Max J. Rosenberg ( 1914-2004 ) founded and headquartered Amicus had at Shepperton Studios, Middlesex, United Kingdom. After Subotsky 1975 left the company, the production company, still to be finalized end up on some movies, was set.
Typical of Amicus were horror movies episode, as it were the hallmarks of Milton Subotsky. Several brief episodes here are connected by an overriding framework for action, including the narrator. In addition, Amicus produced some science fiction films, including adaptations of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and two films that were based on the then-new television series Doctor Who ( Dr Who and the Daleks and Daleks ' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD). These have already been filmed in Technicolor, as even the series was still running in black and white.
Amicus was in the 1960s and 1970s as a rival company to the more famous Hammer studios. Even today, some Amicus films are mistakenly confused with Hammer films. This is due to a similar visual style of the films and the often similar choice of the main actors (eg, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee). In contrast to the historical horror films of Hammer Amicus films take place mostly in the present.
Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2003 published a five- DVD box with Amicus films in a coffin-shaped container.