premise: Hammer Film Productions has produced horror films.
hypothesis: Hammer Film Productions . Founded in 1934 , the company is best known for a series of Gothic `` Hammer Horror '' films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s . Hammer also produced science fiction , thrillers , film noir and comedies -- and , in later years , television series . During its most successful years , Hammer dominated the horror film market , enjoying worldwide distribution and considerable financial success . During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer formula , with varying degrees of success . The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions , loosely based on the novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ) by Mary Shelley .