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 […]
An Unusual Love – The Whip and the Body (1963)
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 […]
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 […]
Love Will Keep Us Together – The Mummy (1959)
As Hammer started to expand its horror output, much of what it did would mirror what Universal had done twenty to thirty years previous. Universal had a Frankenstein and a Dracula, so […]
Only He Was… – The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
Everybody wants to be immortal. Anyone that says any different is lying. To go through the years, to see all, to do all and to be free of death and disease, who […]
Beware of… – The Creeping Flesh (1973)
More often than not when Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star in a film together, it is as adversaries and rarely as friends. Suffice it to say, The Creeping Flesh holds true […]
The Telltale Mind 