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 »
Tag: television
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 »
The World Of Hammer
The World Of Hammer (1994) was a thirteen part series of twenty-five minute episodes narrated by Oliver Reed. Each episode in the series looked at a theme in Hammer Films… Read more »
Pioniere In Ingolstadt
“That’s the only thing you have as a soldier; the women.” Pioniere in Ingolstadt (1971) was filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ninth film in three years. The film adapts Marieluise Fleißer’s… Read more »
Night Watch
Night Watch (1995) is the sequel to Death Train (1993). Lead actors Pierce Brosnan and Alexandra Paul return as dashing UN agents, though this time they are after stolen paintings… Read more »
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 »
Death Ride To Osaka
From the moment that Brad Fiedel’s synth score plays on the soundtrack you know that Death Ride To Osaka (1983) is something special. The film was helmed by the underrated… Read more »
Penda’s Fen
Filmmaker Alan Clarke’s reputation was built on works known for their stark realism. Clarke’s films are typified as emotionally violent character portraits that are critical of British institutions. Films like… Read more »
Cast A Deadly Spell
Just a few years before reinvigorating the James Bond franchise with GoldenEye (1995) Martin Campbell directed the film Cast A Deadly Spell (1991) for HBO. Cast A Deadly Spell came… Read more »
