The Pirates Of Blood River
At a remote Huguenot settlement on an island in the Caribbean, Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) is railroaded and imprisoned for adultery. Standing manages to escape the penal colony only to… Read more »
Tag: Christopher Lee
The Return Of Captain Invincible
The Return Of Captain Invincible (1982) combines the wit and counterculture savvy of Richard O’Brien with Philippe Mora’s distinctly Australian view of American imperialism all within the aesthetic milieu of… Read more »
The Wicker Man
Since I was fourteen years old The Wicker Man (1973) has been one of my favorite films. I remember getting the home video release from Anchor Bay that came in… Read more »
Cuadecuc, vampir
A seminal work of avant-garde cinema, Pere Portabella’s Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) was shot in conjunction with Jesús Franco’s film Count Dracula (1970). Portabella shot his film as Franco shot his,… Read more »
Taste Of Fear
Hammer Productions’ Taste Of Fear (1961) sees director Seth Holt working at the height of his powers. Taste Of Fear, like Holt’s best films for Hammer, is a thriller rather… Read more »
Rasputin The Mad Monk
Shot on the same sets and at the same time as The Reptile (1966) and Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966), Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966) is a relatively low budget… Read more »
De Sade 70
De Sade 70 (1970) or Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion is Jesús Franco’s second film adaptation of a work by the Marquis de Sade. For a long… Read more »
Horror Express
From the moment John Cacavas’ theme can be heard and the title card “Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing in” appears on screen, you know that Horror Express (1972) is going… Read more »
The Crimson Pirate
As a spiritual sequel to the tremendous success of The Flame And The Arrow (1950) Burt Lancaster made The Crimson Pirate (1952). Robert Siodmak directs the film, re-teaming with Lancaster… Read more »
Hammer Dracula Figure
Shout! Factory recently announced that they will be including an exclusive action figure of Saint-Exmin (Sybil Danning) from NECA with their new steel book of Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)…. Read more »
