Prince Prospero sees that local villagers are suffering from the Red Death, but rather than help them, he demands that the village is burnt down, but not before he has taken a local young woman as his own. Her father and her husband seek revenge and want to save her from Prospero's clutches. The Masque …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 5- The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Beware- there are spoilers ahead! Mary Henry is in a car with two of her friends when another car full of youths challenges them to a race. Whilst both cars are next to each other on a bridge, the vehicle containing the young women is rammed over the side and into the river down below. …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Carnival of Souls (1962)
This Jack Hill directed sexploitation/horror film concerns Howard Thorne, the head of a company that produces and distributes pornographic stills, books and records. He is also a serial rapist and we see him stalking, chasing and attacking his victims. Mondo Keyhole feels like an amazing time capsule as to 60's alternative culture (as suggested by …
Continue reading Day 10- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Mondo Keyhole (1966)
Michael Powell's controversial Peeping Tom is due to be released on Blu-Ray in January, a fact I didn't know until after I chose the film as one of the entries in this year's 31 Days of Halloween. The blurb for the new release contains this nifty plot synopsis- 'Mark, a focus puller at the local …
Continue reading Day 7- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Peeping Tom (1960)
Norah (Juliet Prowse) finds a job spinning records in a New York nightclub after making the move to the city from Rochester. She finds herself the recipient of menacing and threatening phone calls which quickly escalate in severity. When she first receives them she thinks it's just a drunk randomly calling people. But then the …
Wanna see what would happen if someone as old school as Peter Cushing went to a groovy late 60s Swinging London happening? If so then Corruption is the film for you. Cushing plays plastic surgeon Sir John Rowan who after getting into a fight with Anthony Booth's sleazy photographer accidentally disfigures his fiancee's face after …
The first thing I noticed when watching this Tigon film was the incredible cast. It's like a wet dream for horror fans (Boris Karloff! Christopher Lee! Barbara Steele !) A welcome surprise was seeing that Mark Eden who played Alan Bradley from Coronation Street was also in the cast. Eden plays Robert Manning who is …
The first thing I marvelled at regarding Die! Die! My Darling! (aka Fanatic) was the frankly amazing cast. Stephanie Powers, Donald Sutherland, Yootha Joyce and Tallulah Bankhead. That is one hell of a roll call. And what makes it even better is that the film makes every actor step out of their comfort zone and …
I have a confession to make. I might be the only person on the planet who HATED Mad Max: Fury Road. It felt like riding a really fast 2-hour fairground ride after having a roast dinner. A very uncomfortable experience. But whilst I detested this Tom Hardy film, another released the same year made up …
Max Bialystock is a producer on the skids. Now that his more successful days are over, he's had to resort to swindling rich old ladies out of their dosh. They think they're investing in a new play he is producing but there is no play. Max's accountant Leo Bloom notices that it's more profitable to …
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