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 […]
Beware of… – The Creeping Flesh (1973)
RIP Christopher Lee
Words fail.
Who to Trust? – The Accursed (1957)
As far as thrillers go, The Accursed is a good one, if a fairly standard one and if you can overlook a couple of flaws in the story such as the very […]
Must Be the Season of the Witch… – City of the Dead (1960)
One of the best films about witchcraft and revenge is this great little horror called City of the Dead, or as it is known in the U.S., Horror Hotel which stars Christopher […]
An Unwanted Reflection – I, Monster (1971)
By 1971 when I, Monster was released, the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had been put to film many times over. Some were straight up adaptations, some were loosely […]
Strangers and Stranger Things on a Train – Horror Express (1972)
Horror Express, also known as Pánico en el Transiberiano, is a strange little film about a non-corporeal alien that can possess a man and then drain the memories and abilities of others, […]
He’s Handsome, He’s Hypnotic, He’s… – Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Hammer was by no means shy about adapting work from other forms of media, whether it be famous characters from literature like Frankenstein or Dracula, from myth like The Gorgon or from […]
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966) – The Visuals
Dracula Who? – The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Amidst the various Dracula films that Hammer released throughout the years, would come a new series of films which would come to be known as the Karnstein Trilogy. Each one would be […]
Cheating Death – The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Peter Cushing returns as the good Baron Frankenstein, directly following the events of the first film. Surprisingly, and luckily, Frankenstein escapes the gallows and sets up a medical practice in another country. […]
