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 »
Tag: 1960s
The Tomb Of Ligeia
The Tomb Of Ligeia (1964) is the last film in Roger Corman and Vincent Price’s Edgar Allan Poe cycle. According to Vincent Price’s daughter, Victoria Price, The Tomb Of Ligeia… Read more »
Frankenstein Created Woman
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) has the most harrowing opening of any Hammer film. The picture opens with a man being taken to the guillotine as his young son looks on…. Read more »
Il demonio
Il demonio (1963) belongs to Daliah Lavi. Lavi gives a manically desperate performance full of convulsions and contortions. It’s a performance that is as fragile and vulnerable as it is… Read more »
The Plague Of The Zombies
The Plague Of The Zombies (1966) offers up a distinctly post-colonial horror. A horror that sees feudalism give way to capitalism. Haitian culture and religion are appropriated by the aristocracy… Read more »
Never A Dull Moment
Disney’s Never A Dull Moment (1968) finds Dick Van Dyke as a struggling actor who is mistaken by a mob boss (Edward G. Robinson) for a hired killer who is… Read more »
The Gypsy Moths
“If you lived here you’d be home now.” The Gypsy Moths (1969) was the final film that director John Frankenheimer made with leading man Burt Lancaster. The two men began… Read more »
Die! Die! My Darling!
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) was the great Tallulah Bankhead’s final film but it was also one of the late Donald Sutherland’s first films. Sutherland’s early career in British horror… Read more »
The Exotic Ones
“All good little girls are bad once in a while.” Ron and June Ormond’s The Exotic Ones (1968) can be summed up by a single shot that proceeds the opening… Read more »
Private Property
For decades Private Property (1960) was thought lost. Upon being discovered and restored the film became widely available via a Blu-Ray release through Cinelicious Pics. Back in the hands of… Read more »
