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FILM REVIEW: Black Sea By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com In the late 50s, Hollywood studios, terrified of the burgeoning threat of TV, began to focus their attention on mega budget, epic spectacles. This left a gap in the market that was filled to a large degree by independent British productions like the horror films of Hammer. Forward to 2014 and we’re seeing a similar situation, with Hollywood once again New Jersey Stage SHARE BUTTON attempting to compete with TV by producing movies with insanely large budgets, while showing a reticence to fund lower budgeted genre movies. With Hammer reborn, it seems it may be time once again for the British film industry to step up and give us the sort of movies Hollywood is no longer interested in offering. January 2015 pg 84