WHEN HAMMER FILMS PLANNED TO GO ON STAGE! I have no idea what producer and CEO of #Hammerfilms Michael Carreras had in mind for a full scale 'Supernatural and Shocks' theatrical production, but seeing since those times, the enormous success of London West End productions like 'The Woman In Black' and 'Ghost Stories' a superb horror play written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, it's a real shame Hammer didn't push it further. 'The Woman in Black' actually opened in London's West End in 1989 and is still being performed there, becoming the second longest-running non-musical play in West End history, after 'The Mousetrap'! ... and I am sure, Peter would have been superb in a Hammer stage show, if his nerves had held out in a long run.... it may have, if the money was right, brought in 'another' star name, who at this time was appearing in some, like Peter...hits and misses.
LEE DID WORK FOR HAMMER FILMS in 1975, in 'To The Devil A Daughter' it did small business and a short while later, Lee exited out of the back door to the US for ten years... to appear briefly in 'Hammer also briefly-rebooted' 'The Resident' in 2011.
IN 1975, Peter
appeared in two films for Tyburn, 'Legend of the Werewolf' being one,
he also appeared in his last Hammer 'film', a small role in 'Shatter'.
In 1980, he appeared in the #HammerHouseofHorror
tv series episode, 'The Silent Scream' which surprisingly, was a
triumph! But back in 1975 'the Hammer Theatre Show' could have been a
game changer if it had gone into production? You think? Mind you, '#TheRockyHorrorShow'
probably would have stolen it's thunder when the film adaption
appeared, ironically filmed at Hammer films old home. . .. Bray
Studios! - Marcus
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