The mid-1960s were the heyday of Hammer and Amicus Films as England’s top suppliers of horror movies—but suddenly a new company, Protelco Productions, burst upon the scream scene with two films that put them in the same class overnight. ISLAND OF TERROR starred Peter Cushing and Ed- ward Judd as scientists battling bone-eating creatures (inadvertently created by cancer re- searchers) on a small populated island off the Irish coast; THE PROJECTED MAN featured Bryant Haliday as a professor hideously burned in a teleportation experiment and now, maddened by the experience and filled with lethal electricity that gives him the touch of death, seeking revenge on the unscrupulous men responsible.


The fright flicks were distributed sepa- rately in England but in 1967 they were paired as a pulse-pounding Protelco double-bill in the US, the home (since 1947) of their London-born co-producer Richard Gordon. Gordon began as a moviemaker with made-in-England crime melodramas in the 1950s, but then hit the horror trail in a big way with the 1958 twin- bill of FIEND WITHOUT A FACE and THE HAUNTED STRANGLER and never looked back; he specialized in macabre movie- making for the next quarter-century. In this interview he recalls his producing partner Gerald A. Fernback and the rise and fall of Protelco Productions. —TW


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