Early Hammer Horror film Never Take Sweets From a Stranger is a dark, terrifying examination of the horrors pedophilia Before their brand became synonymous with Gothic horror fantasies dripping with promises of Freudian sex and death, Hammer Films steadily pumped out a series of quality British melodramas, mysteries and Hitchcockian thrillers, most of them produced economically in black and white and exported internationally by major studios with little fanfare.