Magazine Review
An Homage to House of Hammer Magazine
A whole horde of horror film magazines have come and gone over the years but few manage to achieve the iconic stamp of approval from discerning genre aficionados.
June 23, 2020
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Film Review
Maidenly Musings on Dracula Has Risen From The Grave
After three successful Dracula features, Hammer bring back everyone’s favourite blood-lusting vampire for a fourth instalment in Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968).
June 23, 2020
Collecting
Story of a Collector
Suddenly I was confronted by a huge colour photo of Christopher Lee as Dracula, red eyes blazing, staring out at me from the cover of a new poster magazine. Since it was marked “For Adults Only”…
June 3, 2020
Opinion Piece
Those Were the Good Old Days
“They don’t make them like that anymore” is something you often hear said. And as far as horror films go I think that’s true. The great days of the atmospheric horror movies ended, in my opinion, in the 1970s.
June 3, 2020
Film Review
Sting of Death (1965)
But surely a contender for worst ever has to be the mutant jellyfish /man creature (were-jelly?) from The Sting of Death. If you haven’t experienced the doubtful pleasure of this film do yourself a favour and track it down now!
June 3, 2020
Film Review
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The Thing From Another World is one of those handful of films I was exposed to at a tender age on late night TV. Along with Karloff’s Frankenstein, Them! and Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, to this day it still excites me to watch it and it takes me back to being an 11 year full of wonder at the images coming from our black and white TV!
May 29, 2020
DVD review
Doctor Who: the Web of Fear (1968)
Imagine a 7 year old boy addicted to watching Dr Who every Saturday teatime in the 60s. The Daleks, of course, were the really scary ones, the ones you hid behind the sofa to avoid. But for me, as a child, the ones that terrified me most were the yetis, specifically the ones that appeared in 1968’s Web of Fear.
May 29, 2020
Film Review
Them! (1954)
Picture the scene: It’s a Friday morning sometime in the early 70s and I’m sat in school trying my hardest to look interested in a geography lesson. But it’s not ox-bow lakes and waterfalls that are on my young mind. All I can think of is the film that’s advertised on Tyne Tees TV at 10.30pm that night.
May 29, 2020
Film Review
The Giant Claw (1957)
If you are ever in any doubt how big the creature is in The Giant Claw, don’t worry….every ten minutes or so one of the characters will tell you “It’s as big as a battleship”!
May 29, 2020
Film Review
Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Eric McNaughton puts his glasses on for a look at a neglected gem, Dr Cyclops. “Now you can call me ‘Cyclops’ because I have one good eye”. In 1940 Paramount studios returned to the world of horror films.
May 29, 2020