On a training exercise, a group of soldiers who are checking for radiation come across a large source of it down in a giant sandpit. After something within the earth causes an […]
From Within the Earth Comes… – X the Unknown (1956)
Come One, Come All to the… – Vampire Circus (1972)
By 1972, everything that could really be said or done with a vampire had been and most of it by Hammer Studios. So with a lack of innovation and without rewriting the […]
Relax, It’s Only a… – Nightmare (1964)
The Jimmy Sangster-penned Nightmare from Hammer Studios in 1964 sees a young girl driven to madness and murder with the film then delivering a bit of a twist when her tormentors are […]
Look, For… – These are the Damned (1963)
Hammer had great success with horror over the course of its existence and when it decided to start mixing in elements of science-fiction, The Quatermass Xperiment being the more prominent one in […]
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 […]
Spend a Night in… – The Old Dark House (1963)
For a Hammer film, and with a title like this, The Old Dark House is not all that dark. Perhaps it would have seemed more so if the comedy had been toned […]
The Soul of a Monster – The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
In Hammer’s 1962 production of The Phantom of the Opera, it would see Herbert Lom step into the shoes of the tragic figure and it would be both a captivating and haunting […]
Van Helsing Goes to China – The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires was made during Hammer’s twilight years and also happened to be co-produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The end result of that collaboration is a […]
Hope and Humanity – O. Henry’s Full House (1952)
1952 would see 20th Century Fox produce an anthology film featuring stories from famous author O. Henry on the big screen. Narrated by author John Steinbeck and featuring a bevy of stars […]
Madness and… – Midnight Lace (1960)
It is not often that you get to see Doris Day in something that is not a musical or lighthearted comedy and so this movie is thankfully neither and we are privy […]
The Telltale Mind 