Bringing together Christopher Lee and vampires is the not-so-secret recipe to make a good horror movie, though to be fair, all one really needs is Christopher Lee period. That being said, Crypt […]
Carmilla Rising – Crypt of the Vampire (1964)
Children Are the Future – Nothing but the Night (1973)
Usually, when one sees Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee on the big screen together, it is instant magic. It is immediately known that what follows is going to be good, that no […]
Come One, Come All to the… – Circus of Fear (1966)
Circus of Fear, or Psycho-Circus, begins ambitiously enough with a daring robbery on Tower Bridge and from there, it somewhat slows down once the circus comes into play. It also marks one […]
Life From Death – Castle of the Walking Dead (1967)
No matter how one watches this film, whether as Castle of the Walking Dead, The Blood Demon, The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism or any of the other innumerable titles it has, […]
Trouble Comes in Many Forms – Curse III : Blood Sacrifice (1991)
After some alien goo and a mutated snake-man, there was only one obvious place for the Curse series to go – a blood sacrifice. The story finds the main character Elizabeth as […]
An Unusual Love – The Whip and the Body (1963)
When Christopher Lee cites The Whip and the Body as one of his favourite performances, it is easy to see why. Mario Bava’s production gave the man the chance to do something […]
The Past Comes Alive – Horror Castle (1963)
Antonio Margheriti’s The Virgin of Nuremberg which was retitled Horror Castle for American audiences, is one of his first films and also one of his best. The movie features a hooded killer, […]
Almost Otherworldly… – Night of the Big Heat (1967)
If there was one dream-team during the 1960s, it was Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and director Terence Fisher. Alone, they all did great works and together, no matter the combination, they made […]
Born To It – To the Devil… A Daughter (1976)
There have been a lot of films about possession and about Satanists, some even put out by Hammer themselves, and To the Devil… a Daughter which is based upon a novel by […]
Doom Sounds… – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Settling into his nearly two-decade run at Hammer Studios, Peter Cushing would star in the Terence Fisher directed adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. He would step […]
The Telltale Mind 