London, England (CNN)-- There is a special place reserved in the history of film for the gothic kitsch of "Hammer horror." During the 1950s and 60s, British Hammer Film Productions developed an ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Damien Thomas, the British actor perhaps best known for his turn as the vampire Count Karnstein opposite Peter Cushing in the Hammer Films horror classic Twins of Evil ...

Yvonne Furneaux, the glamorous actress who had memorable performances ... She also was the female lead in the Hammer horror film The Mummy (1959), starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.