For this entry in the Carry On series, the team take aim at the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton epic, Cleopatra. Sets that were used and then discarded for the original were used again here. In fact, there seems to be more of an epic scale to this entry, as if Cleo was purposefully trying (and succeeding!) …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 10- Carry On Cleo (1964)
When a top secret chemical formula is stolen by STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans), secret agent Simpkins is placed on the case along with three similarly incompetent (but very entertaining) trainees. Carry On Spying is a seminal entry in the series as this is the first movie starring someone who …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 9- Carry On Spying (1964)
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 …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 8- Carry On Jack (1964)
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 …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 7- Carry On Cabby (1963)
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 …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 6- Carry On Cruising (1962)
This second Carry On film is set at Haven Hospital and features an eclectic bunch of characters- the boxer, the bookish nuclear physicist, the bothersome colonel… The cast of favourites are all present and correct, with Hattie Jacques’ first turn as a matron. And how fantastic she is! Watch how she patrols the ward like …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 2- Carry On Nurse (1959)
This entry into the taboo 'killer kid' horror sub-genre involves 9 year old Mikey. The first scene shows him slaughtering his entire adoptive family (yes, really) in one fell swoop. Whats more, hes videotaped the whole thing for his later entertainment. Mikey is found hiding in a closet by the police officers investigating who could …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 18- Mikey (1992)
This is an article I wrote about this film rather than an actual review. Its amazing when a TV programme or a film conveys a message that is so powerful that it faces strong and vicious opposition from the higher echelons of the day who seek to suppress it. Play For Today was a BBC1 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 17- Scum (1979)
Terry Hawkins comes out of prison after serving a sentence on dr*gs charges. He’s embittered from his time inside and far from rehabilitated. He decides to…make a sn*ff movie now that he’s free (seems a very niche career path he’s chosen). There’s loads of meta references here with this movie about making a movie. This …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 16- Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
I feel like I've grown up with this film. This was one film that I remember seeing on the shelves of video stores when I was a child but didn't get round to seeing before it mysteriously disappeared. Absence made the heart grown fonder and I knew I must see this forbidden fruit. But when …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 15- The Exorcist (1973)
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