Little Shoppe of Horrors #39

By 1975, Hammer Films was nearly broke and hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Trying to get a profitable film into production, they had been working with EMI, their British distributor, and a German company on the Dennis Wheatley TO THE DEVIL... A DAUGHTER. When it came out in 1976, it was a big hit. But it did not save Hammer in the end.         Read the crazy story behind TO THE DEVIL... A DAUGHTER by David Taylor from the very beginning when Christopher Lee met Dennis Wheatley, through Hammer's 1967 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT.
Lee's Charlemagne production of NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT; then THE WICKER MAN. And finally the traumatic trip to get TO THE DEVIL... A DAUGHTER made. THE ROAD ... TO HELL! - The Making of "To The Devil... A Daughter" ... and the Unmaking of Hammer by David Taylor Nastassja Kinski - exclusive interview by Nicolas Barbano. British Character Actors 8: Peter Sallis - by David Williams. For Hammer fans it was 1969's TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA.
For the rest of the world - Wallace of "Wallace & Gromit" and LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE. Hammer - The Hyman Years! - Denis Meikle interviews Kenneth Hyman about WarnerBros-7Arts connection to Hammer. Hammer's Final Frontier - the Making of MOON ZERO TWO - by Bruce G. Hallenbeck. A space western that didn't work. And destroyed Hammer's long term relationship with Warner Bros. From MOON ZERO TWO to SPACE 1999 - Catherine Schell Interview by Susan Cowie. MOON ZERO TWO -or How One Boy's Dream Became a Reality - Mike Tilley on working for Les Bowie on the FX for MZ2. All Our regular features are back - Letters to LSoH - Ralph's One-and-Only Travelling Review Company -Hammer News- Front Cover by Belle Dee (Shana Bilbrey)Back Cover by Paul WattsInside Front Cover by Mike SchneiderInside Back Cover by Dan Gallagher, Jr.