Carry on Jack is a naval-based entry (the Navy, not bellybuttons) which parodies Mutiny on the Bounty. Just like Carry On Cabby, this entry was also a different film (Up The Armada) before it was adapted into a fully fledged Carry On. This may explain why most of the usual troupe are missing apart from …
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Charlie Hawkins runs Speedee Taxis who are very successful but to the detriment of his marriage. His wife Peggy wants to spend more time with her husband but he’s always working. As revenge, she secretly starts Glam Cabs with an all female workforce. Very quickly they start to pinch all of Speedee Taxis’ business. Which …
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Captain Crowther (Sid James) is about to head the staff of a cruise liner when five of his crew fall ill and are replaced by five new staff members who seem comically unsuited to be working on a cruise liner. Carry On Cruising is the first film in the series to be shot in colour …
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Carry On Regardless is centred around an employment agency called Helping Hands and the assignments the temps there are placed on. There is plenty of scope for some of the regular cast members to shine. And shine they do! There are some fantastic vignettes whether it’s Kenneth Williams organising a chimp’s tea party, Joan Sims …
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In this fourth Carry On film, a flu epidemic means that new recruits who are inexperienced and possibly unsuitable join a police force- with hilarious consequences! The big revelation with Carry On Constable is that an actor would join the troupe who would very quickly become one of the most well-known actors associated with the …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 4- Carry On Constable (1960)
A mad scientist, Dr Lorca, is making murderous human/plant hybrids on an island using the blood of the local inhabitants. Tomb of the Living Dead is actually Mad Doctor of Blood Island after it was retitled to try and cash in on all things zombie. It’s the third film in a four film Filipino series …
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A mysterious radiation thought to have been brought back to Earth after a space probe to Venus, is bringing the dead back to life to feast on the living. A young woman named Barbara is visiting her dead father's grave with her brother Johnny when... This film has so much of a great reputation amongst …
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This West German film provides an ‘erotic’ spin on the tales of Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. It’s also titled Grimm’s Fairy Tales For Adults in some countries. These are filmed adaptations of the fairy tales but made for adults and with added nudity (this was made as an adult film) and imagery suitable …
Night of the Bloody Apes ia a 1969 Mexican horror film directed by Rene Cardona and Jerald Intrator. A doctor transplants a gorilla's heart into his son's body to try and cure his lukemia. This turns the son into a murderous and very nubile half-man, half-ape type hybrid who wreaks havoc. Night of the Bloody …
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Two female army agents go undercover in a Nazi concentration camp to gain information- WITH HILARIOUS CONSEQUENCES!!! (Just kidding). Lee Frost's Love Camp 7 is the first of the so-called Naziploitation genre (a dubious honour) and whilst it may have been controversial for the time, it's pretty tame when compared to the other genre entries …
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Meathook Cinema 