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 […]
Come One, Come All to the… – Circus of Fear (1966)
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 this one based upon a novel by Dennis Wheatley does not exactly […]
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 […]
Beware, the… – Terror of the Tongs (1961)
Terror of the Tongs is another film where it sounds like there might be more to it than you think, a scare here and there to keep one on their toes or […]
Do You Dare Risk… – The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964)
The plot to the first sequel in Hammer’s Mummy series, The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, is nothing we have not seen before. If finds a group of Egyptologists discover a new […]
