The Midnight Hour
Every Halloween my partner and I watch Hammer Horror films and pass out candy to the neighborhood trick-or-treaters. Halloween is my favorite time of year and while I love passing… Read more »
Flesh For Frankenstein
Paul Morrissey has passed away so I thought it would be fitting to revisit his film Flesh For Frankenstein (1973). This 3D magnum opus revisits many of the themes that… Read more »
Wacko
On the thirteenth anniversary of a lawnmower massacre a psychotic killer escapes a mental institute. Now a small town is gripped in terror as the lawnmower killer threatens to strike… Read more »
Robin Redbreast
The film Robin Redbreast (1970) was produced as part of the program Play For Today on the BBC. The film was written by John Bowen and directed by James MacTaggart… Read more »
Tilbury
Tilbury (1987) is an Icelandic made for television film set during WWII that deals with the tilberi. A tilberi is a creature of Icelandic folklore that is summoned by women… Read more »
Captain Clegg
Captain Clegg (1962) represents a cross pollination of different genres that Hammer excelled in. It is at once a horror film, an adventure picture and a thriller. In the hands… Read more »
The Vampire Happening
The Vampire Happening (1971) is the product of a collaboration between Hammer veteran director Freddie Francis and producer Pier A. Caminnecci. The film is a bawdy horror comedy with an… Read more »
Earth vs. The Spider
Bert I. Gordon built his career on the atomic age monster movie. Over the course of the fifties Gordon perfected the formula for giant monster spectacles. Films like The Amazing… Read more »
Hex
Hex (1980) is a Shaw Brothers’ production directed by the inimitable Kuei Chih-Hung. What begins as a suspenseful melodrama that owes more than a little to Les Diaboliques (1955) becomes… Read more »
The Meateater
The Meateater (1979) follows a disgruntled shoe salesman, Mitford (Peter Spitzer), who relocates to a small midwestern town with his family and buys an old movie theater. But unknown to… Read more »
