Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors is a fascinating and fast paced example of portmanteau filmmaking with a deadly twist in the tale…. Dr Terror foretells the future… and five men wish he hadn’t… This was Amicus Productions’ first of 16 horror films made between 1965 and 1977, 7 of which…
Browsing: Peter Cushing
Two ultimate Hammer Horror classics, The Mummy and Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell, starring British acting royalty, the legendary Peter Cushing in both films and other greats including Christopher Lee and Patrick Troughton get the special Limited Edition treatment this August, courtesy of Second Sight Films. THE MUMMY ‘Magical, scary and comic, naive and perverse, elegant…
THE CREEPING FLESH *** UK 1973 Dir: Freddie Francis. 92 mins Those days of yore when the evil practices came from ‘Pagan’ continents. The hideous practices of the voodoo, ancient curses, potions, and deadly artifacts. In these times of demonic children and houses, possessed toys, killers that lurk next door…
HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS **** UK 1983 Dir: Pete Walker. 97 mins In a bold move, Cannon Films asked Pete Walker, the filmmaker responsible for some of the most nihilistic, establishment-baiting British horror films of the 1970s, and MARK OF THE DEVIL screenwriter Michael Armstrong to adapt “The Seven…
Stewart Sparke’s award-winning dark comedic monster movie BOOK OF MONSTERS and Audrey Cummings’s grisly chuckler SHE NEVER DIED, starring Olunike Adeliyi,are amongst the raft of Saturday night UK TV premieres on Horror Channel during May. Also in prime-time slots are the UK TV premieres of gruesome action thriller BECKY and Henry Jacobson’s stylish crime chiller BLOODLINE,…