The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films while mild by modern standards were unprecedented in his day. They may have drawn heavily on Christian themes and there is usually a hero who defeats the powers of darkness by a combination of faith in God and reason in contrast to other characters who are either blindly superstitious or bound by a cold godless rationalism (as noted by critic Paul Leggett in Terence FiTerence Fisherr: Horror Myth and Religion 2001). It is only in recent years that FiTerence Fisherr has become recognised as an auteur in his own right.

He was born in Maida Vale a district of London England.