Amicus Productions
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Amicus Productions was founded in the UK by American producer and screenwriter Milton Subotsky, and served primarily as vehicle for Subotsky's anthology horror films such as Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1964), directed by genre stalwart Freddie Francis, and The House That Dripped Blood. Although Amicus films are often mistaken for the output of the better-known Hammer Horror studio, many fans of the genre are still fond of them.
Amicus Productions also occasionally wandered into straight sci-fi territory, with adaptations of several of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and, in the mid-1960s, two films based on the then-relatively-new television series Doctor Who. Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, the first (and still the only) big-screen adaptations of the long-running series, were filmed in Technicolor at a time when the series itself was still filmed in black-and-white, giving Dr. Who and the Daleks the additional distinction of being the first time Doctor Who had appeared in colour.Template:Film-stub