The Three Musketeers
I was just a kid the first time that I saw Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers (1973). My mother was a really big fan of Lester’s two Musketeers films. She… Read more »
Tag: Christopher Lee
Death Train
Death Train (1993), aka The Detonator, was a perennial staple at video stores and retail outlets all through the nineties and into the next decade. The image on the cover… Read more »
To The Devil A Daughter
Before Hammer Films was revived in the 2010s, To The Devil A Daughter (1976) had the distinction of being Hammer’s final film. As such, To The Devil A Daughter was… Read more »
Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton’s unique brand of “Pop Goth” has become so codified and commodified in popular culture that his films seem to exist as an entity beyond film. The cult following,… Read more »
Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel
Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel (1967) is a classic Gothic horror film from The Constantin Film AG of Germany (then West Germany). Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel reunited Constantin stalwarts… Read more »
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 »
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 »
