There are filmmakers who channel their views and experiences into a body of work that remains in conversation with itself across decades, and do so without recognition in their lifetimes. Filmmakers like Terence Fisher. Though recent years have been kinder to his reputation, including at least three volumes taking him quite seriously, most scholarship has hovered around vague, reductive, or isolated features of his work such as style (Gothic, primarily) or spirituality (mostly revealed in…