Poster of the week goes to this gorgeous Italian artwork for the Steve McQueen film Nevada Smith from 1966. This is rugged, masculine and just a tad homoerotic.
Category: Art
Poster of the Week- Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968)
Hammer Studios goes full-on late Sixties with this shake-up of how they advertised their films to reflect the radical new era. This was an attempt to get away from their previous image which was in danger of looking and feeling stale and archaic. How did they do this? By using humour! The result is iconic.
Poster of the Week- Carrie (1976)
New feature! Every week I'll be presenting one of my favourite film posters. I actually think of film art as art in it's own right. I'm sure visitors to this website feel the same way. This first poster is the iconic UK poster for Brian De Palma's classic horror movie Carrie from 1976. The …
Soundtrack of the Week: Prom Night (1980)
Every week I'll be recommending one of my favourite soundtracks and why I like them. Hopefully this will inspire you to investigate more, buy the album or dig it out of your collection if you already have it so that you bask in it's glory again. This week is the turn of the Paul Zaza/Carl …
Top 10 Horror Movies From 1988
There's a video for this list here. 10. Rabid Grannies A group of relatives meet to celebrate their elderly relations' birthday (but have disclosed that they are only there so that they may be left something in the old duck's inheritances when they pop their clogs). A black-sheep nephew of the octogenarians who practices the …
Top 10 Horror Movies From 1987
There is a video for this list here. 10. The Video Dead A demonic television only shows the black and white horror film Zombie Blood Nightmare. The zombies can also escape the TV set to come into real life and kill the film's viewers. When I first saw this video on the shelves of my …
Top 10 Horror Movies From 1986
There's a video for this list here. 10. Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives Jason was killed in Part 4. But just as that instalment was supposed to be the literal 'Final Chapter', it had been such a success that Paramount made another film. Part 5: A New Beginning involved Tommy Jarvis still seeing …
Top 10 Horror Movies From 1985
There's a video for this list here. 10. The Mutilator Family horror here! Teenager Ed accidentally kills his mother whilst cleaning a rifle for his father (imagine what a headfuck that would be). After his father (Big Ed) discovers his dead wife's body, he has a breakdown. Fast forward a few years, and Big Ed …
Top 10 Horror Movies From 1983
There is a video regarding this article here. 10. Twilight Zone: The Movie An anthology of separate short films from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller and John Landis. This homage to the original Twilight Zone TV series, much loved by both television and horror fans, works really well as the spirit …
Top 10 Horror Movies From 1981
There's a video of my choices on YouTube here. 10. The Burning One of the most notorious films involved in the Video Nasties debacle (but not the most notorious. That honour is reserved for another movie on this list), this was severely cut by the BBFC for cinema and video release. However, Thorn EMI Home …
