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 […]
Come One, Come All to the… – Vampire Circus (1972)
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 […]
Like Father, Like Daughter – Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Hands of the Ripper starts out like a really bad made-for-T.V. movie with some questionable editing that immediately makes you wonder what the makers of this film were thinking. Not an auspicious […]
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 […]
It Was a Very… – Dark Summer (2015)
Dark Summer is a horror film that stars Keir Gilchrist as a thoroughly unlikeable person and starting your movie out with the main character as such does not bode well whatsoever. Thankfully […]
Not a Lot of Substance – Hollow Man 2 (2006)
When it comes right down to it, Hollow Man 2 is not as bad as most people make it out to be. It is no masterpiece and is about as far away […]
A Little Uncalled-For Surgery – Hospital Massacre (1981)
Hospitals are scary things. They always have been and they always will be. Sure they can heal you when you feel sick and fix you when you are broken, but they can […]
The Telltale Mind 