The Hammer Horror films were often praised by critics for their visual style, although rarely taken seriously.
In a 2013 retrospective for The Guardian, Michael Newton wrote:Shot in Eastmancolor, the first batch of Hammer Horror movies - Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Mummy (1959) - are among the loveliest-looking British films of the decade..