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The main thing about Hammer [films] was that if you went to see a film in the cinema, the gasps were interspersed with giggles because people were giggling at themselves for being frightened, they were frightening themselves; and this is what made Hammer very special.

When I first started doing Hammer, all the so-called classic actors looked down on the horror film. There is a great thrill for me in having done Hammer and being known. All the other things I did, nobody remembers those. But the horror films, I'm very grateful to them because they built me a fan base, and I'm very touched that people will come and ask for my autograph.

Hammer knew that it wasn't what you saw that was important, it was what you didn't see. There is nothing more frightening than your hidden fears.

In England they decided that, because I had been a fashion model, there was no way I'd be able to act. in Italy, however, they decided otherwise, and that is how I began my career as an actress.

Hammer was like a family, a very talented family, and there was a wonderful canteen down there! To work with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee . . . I've been more than lucky, I've been honoured. They were so wonderful to work with, both so generous as actors with a wonderful atmosphere on the set and a wonderful sense of humour.

I adored science-fiction. When I was a very little girl my father used to have all these science-fiction magazines and we used to go through them together . . . My mind had been opened up to science-fiction by my father, so when I got these scripts it wasn't, "What's this rubbish?", it was, "That's interesting".