Line #33 Creator/AmicusProductions


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3	Amicus Productions was a British film production company active in the 1960s and 1970s. It is best known for its genre pictures, particularly in the genres of horror and science fiction.
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5	The science fiction films included two movies based on the then-new hit series ''Series/DoctorWho'': ''Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' and ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''. They also made three films based on the works of Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs, specifically ''Film/TheLandThatTimeForgot'' and its sequel, ''Film/ThePeopleThatTimeForgot'', and ''Literature/AtTheEarthsCore''.
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7	The horror films are often WrongfullyAttributed to the older and more famous [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Studios]], with which they share some directors and stars (including Creator/ChristopherLee and Creator/PeterCushing). Two points of distinction are that Amicus tended to set its films in the present day (as opposed to Hammer's Gothic historicals) and many of Amicus' horror films are {{Anthology Film}}s, with a FramingDevice binding together three or four shorter stories. Two anthology films were adaptions of stories from the American horror comics published by Creator/ECComics. Writer Creator/RobertBloch wrote many screenplays for Amicus, often adapting his own short stories, and joshed in his autobiography that [[TakeThat "Amicus was Latin for 'no budget'."]][[note]]The gag is that ''amicus'' is Latin for ''friend''.[[/note]]
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9	Producer Milton Subotsky would later relocate to Canada and produce two more films in the Amicus anthology style with Amicus director Roy Ward Baker: ''Film/TheUncanny'' (1977) and ''Film/TheMonsterClub'' (1980).
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11	!!Amicus Productions with their own trope pages include:
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13	[[index]]
14	* ''Film/AndNowTheScreamingStarts'' (1973)
15	* ''Film/{{Asylum\|1972Horror}}'' (1972)
16	* ''Film/TheBeastMustDie'' (1974)
17	* ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD'' (1966)
18	* ''Film/TheDeadlyBees'' (1966)
19	* ''Film/DrTerrorsHouseOfHorrors'' (1965)
20	* ''Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' (1965)
21	* ''Film/FromBeyondTheGrave'' (1974)
22	* ''Film/TheHouseThatDrippedBlood'' (1971)
23	* ''Film/IMonster'' (1971)
24	* ''Film/TheLandThatTimeForgot'' (1975)
25	* ''Film/Madhouse1974''
26	* ''Film/ThePeopleThatTimeForgot'' (1977)
27	* ''Film/ScreamAndScreamAgain'' (1970)
28	* ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'' (1972)
29	* ''Film/TortureGarden'' (1968)
30	* ''Film/VaultOfHorror'' (1973)
31	[[/index]]
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33	!!Other Amicus Productions provide examples of:
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35	%%* AnthologyFilm
36	* CakeToppers: A wedding cake topper is used for SympatheticMagic in ''From Beyond the Grave'' (1973).
37	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Several of the anthology films end with the narrator character addressing the audience directly.
38	%%* FramingDevice
39	* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: In the anthology film ''From Beyond the Grave'', the linking premise is that each of the stories involves an object bought from a mysterious shop owned by Creator/PeterCushing.
40	* ManEatingPlant: In the adaptation of ''Literature/AtTheEarthsCore'', a man-eating plant makes a brief appearance, interrupting a fight scene between the hero and an adversary. Needless to say, even though the two men had been trying to kill each other only minutes before, the hero saves his opponent from the clutches of the carnivorous creeping vine, and the two become fast friends, joining forces to defeat the evil Mahars that rule the underground world.
41	* SoulJar: The titular door of ''From Beyond The Grave'', used by an evil, ghostly sorcerer to collect souls. [[spoiler: His latest victims, however, manage to destroy the door, ending his life.]]

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