Michael Carreras

Producer

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Birth Place

London, England, GB

Biography

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Hammer Films' blood ran deep in the veins of producer Michael Carreras-his grandfather Enrique was a co-founder of the studio along with William Hinds, and his father James was also an important creative mover-and-shaker there. The independent British studio unleashed a series of audaciously bloody and perversely sexual (for the time) takes on the monster stories tackled earlier by Univ...

Filmography

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Call Him Mr. Shatter (1975)

The Lost Continent (1968)

Prehistoric Women (1967)

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1965)

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Dracula A.D. 1972 -- (Movie Clip) I Summoned You

Dracula A.D. 1972 -- (Movie Clip) I Think It's All Kinky

Biography

Hammer Films' blood ran deep in the veins of producer Michael Carreras-his grandfather Enrique was a co-founder of the studio along with William Hinds, and his father James was also an important creative mover-and-shaker there. The independent British studio unleashed a series of audaciously bloody and perversely sexual (for the time) takes on the monster stories tackled earlier by Universal Studios in such classic horror movies as "Dracula," "Frankenstein," "The Mummy," "The Wolf Man," and all of their sequels. The Hammer cycle started with the 1957 movie "The Curse of Frankenstein" with Peter Cushing as the doctor and Christopher Lee as the monster, and "Horror of Dracula," starring a ferocious Lee as Count Dracula and Cushing as Van Helsing. The films were huge successes, bigger than any of the studio's earlier productions, and generated plenty of controversy because of their garish graphicness. Michael Carreras was a pivotal help in making them successes. Carreras's best work was arguably as a producer, although he did eventually turn to writing and directing himself with the films "The Savage Guns" (one of the first "Spaghetti Westerns"), the thriller "Maniac," the supernatural horror "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb," and the fantasy "The Lost Continent." Carreras directed the action film "Shatter" after the original director Monte Hellman was fired. Michael Carreras died in 1994, although the Hammer horror tradition continues.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Call Him Mr. Shatter (1975)

The Lost Continent (1968)

Prehistoric Women (1967)

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1965)

The Savage Guns (1962)

Passport to China (1961)

The Steel Bayonet (1958)

Writer (Feature Film)

Creatures the World Forgot (1971)

Moon Zero Two (1970)

One Million Years B. C. (1967)

The Unholy Four (1954)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Lady Vanishes (1979)

Executive Producer

Call Him Mr. Shatter (1975)

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

Executive Producer

Crescendo (1972)

Fear in the Night (1972)

Executive Producer

Creatures the World Forgot (1971)

Moon Zero Two (1970)

A Challenge for Robin Hood (1968)

Executive Producer

The Lost Continent (1968)

One Million Years B. C. (1967)

Prehistoric Women (1967)

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1965)

Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)

Executive Producer

These Are the Damned (1965)

Executive Producer

The Pirates of Blood River (1962)

Executive Producer

Passport to China (1961)

Cash on Demand (1961)

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

Executive Producer

Sword of Sherwood Forest (1961)

Executive Producer

A Weekend With Lulu (1961)

Executive Producer

Scream of Fear (1961)

Executive Producer

The Terror of the Tongs (1961)

Executive Producer

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1961)

Never Take Candy From a Stranger (1961)

Executive Producer

The Brides of Dracula (1960)

Executive Producer

The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)

Executive Producer

Hell Is a City (1960)

The Mummy (1959)

Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

Yesterday's Enemy (1959)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Executive Producer

The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

The Snorkel (1958)

The Steel Bayonet (1958)

The Camp on Blood Island (1958)

Executive Producer

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

Executive Producer

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Executive Producer

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

Executive Producer

Break in the Circle (1957)

X the Unknown (1957)

Executive Producer

Enemy from Space (1957)

Executive Producer

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Executive Producer

The Men of Sherwood Forest (1956)

Race for Life (1954)

Executive Producer

Blackout (1954)

The Unholy Four (1954)

The Black Glove (1954)

Four Sided Triangle (1953)

Man in Hiding (1953)

Spaceways (1953)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Man Bait (1952)

Wings of Danger (1952)

The Gambler and the Lady (1952)

Scotland Yard Inspector (1952)

Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard (1952)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Blood From the Mummy's Tomb (1971)

Life Events

1955

First short film as director

1957

Feature film directing debut

Videos

Dracula A.D. 1972 -- (Movie Clip) I Summoned You Johnny (Christopher Neame), whose hippie London pals think this is just a lark, and don't know he's a real vampire-servant, has settled for Laura (Caroline Munro) in his first occult ceremony, but still hopes to lure Jess (Stephanie Beacham), as he tries to resurrect his master (Christopher Lee), in Hammer Films' Dracula A.D. 1972, 1972.

Dracula A.D. 1972 -- (Movie Clip) I Think It's All Kinky We've just met Jess (Stephanie Beacham), whose swingin' London friends are thinking the occult might be fun, returning home to her grand-dad who turns out to be Peter Cushing, grand-son of the Cushing who killed the title character 100 years earlier in the prologue, in Hammer Films' Dracula A.D. 1972, 1972.

Cash On Demand (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Give This Christmas Tight opening to the well-received Hammer Films’ production, based on an episode of the British TV anthology series Theatre 70, not released in the UK until December, 1963, but with a holiday setting an a twist on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Cash On Demand, 1961, starring Peter Cushing and Andrè Morell.

Cash On Demand (1961) -- (Movie Clip) One Of The Few Dignified Businesses We’ve just been meeting the staff of a provincial English branch bank, two days before Christmas, when their oppressive manager (Peter Cushing as Fordyce) arrives, taking bites out of Miss Pringle, Pearson, and Sanderson (Edith Sharpe, Richard Vernon, Norman Bird), a little kinder to Peter and Sally (Barry Lowe, Lois Daine), early in Hammer Films’ Cash On Demand, 1961.

Cash On Demand (1961) -- (Movie Clip) You Look Ridiculous Only uptight manager Fordyce (Peter Cushing) knows that Col. Gore-Hepburn (Andrè Morell) is really a suave robber holding his family hostage while posing as an inspector from the bank’s security firm, so beleaguered staffers Harvill, Pearson and Sanderson (Barry Lowe, Richard Vernon, Norman Bird) exhibit some team spirit, in Hammer Films’ much-praised Cash On Demand, 1961.

Cash On Demand (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Someone Of Consequence Wholly new character (Andrè Morell as Col. Gore-Hepburn) pulls up outside our Haversham, England bank branch, meeting first Harvill (Barry Lowe), then chief clerk Pearson (Richard Vernon), who’s already in a job-threatening pre-Christmas conflict with fastidious manager Fordyce (Peter Cushing), early in Hammer Films’ Cash On Demand, 1961.

Maniac (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Open, The Camargue Fairly screeching opening, from Jimmy Sangster’s original screenplay, we meet handyman Janiello (Arnold Diamond) in extreme close-up, observing innocent Annette (Liliane Brousse) after school, on the genuine location near the French Mediterranean coast, Michael Carreras directing, in Hammer Films’ Maniac, 1963, with Kerwin Mathews and Nadia Gray.

Maniac (1963) -- (Movie Clip) If You've Finished Sulking Following the nasty murder of a handyman, in southern France, by the father of schoolgirl (Liliane Brousse) he assaulted, she appears again as we meet leading man Kerwin Mathews, as American Jeff, serving him a drink, with local cop Salon (Norman Bird), when his fuming English girlfriend (Justine Lord as Grace) arrives, in the Hammer Films contemporary thriller, Maniac, 1963.

Maniac (1963) -- (Movie Clip) He's Not Coming Back Soon? American Jeff (Kerwin Mathews), who’s supposed to be painting in southern France, visited by Eve (Nadia Gray), Mme. Beynat, from whom he’s renting a room, looking to win his attention away from her fetching daughter, and providing the link, which we could only have inferred so far, to the opening murder, in the Hammer Films thriller Maniac, 1963.

Maniac (1963) -- (Movie Clip) At A Formidable Speed Having fixed the juke box at the road-house where he’s lodging in remote southern France, American Jeff (Kerwin Mathews), abandoned by his wealthy girlfriend, hangs with cop Salon (Norman Bird) then dances with enchanted hostess Annette (Liliane Brousse), her mother (Nadia Gray), the proprietor, worried, in Hammer Films’ Maniac, 1963.

Curse Of The Werewolf (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Don't You Like Goose? Second scene, in which a beggar (Richard Wordsworth) in a Spanish town meets the notoriously cruel Marques Siniestro (Anthony Dawson) and his bride (Josephine Llewellyn), and a chef (Charles Lamb) and things get nasty, in Hammer Films’ Curse Of The Werewolf, 1961, featuring Oliver Reed.

Curse Of The Werewolf (1961) -- (Movie Clip) I Dream I'm A Wolf Professor Carido (Clifford Evans) and servant Teresa (Hira Talfrey) puzzle over the wolf attacks in their 18th century Spanish village, worried that his semi-adopted son Leon (Justin Walters) might be involved, in Hammer Films’ Curse Of The Werewolf, 1961.

Family

James Carreras

Family

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