This weeks Poster of the Week goes to the classic sci-fi nightmare that is Westworld from 1973. There are so many brilliant images here that sum up the movie- the iconic image of Brynner's demented robot gunslinger, the technician sat in front of a bank of monitors and control panels, the technological font used for …
This week's Poster of the Week is one that is framed and adorns one of the walls in my flat! It's artist Brian Bysouth's extraordinary poster for the 1976 'body switch' comedy Freaky Friday. The attention to detail is amazing with several scenes and characters from the film being depicted and drawn so well! I'm …
A peach of a soundtrack to look at is the Trunk Record's compilation of some of the De Wolfe library music that was used within George A Romero's masterpiece Dawn of the Dead. The fact that Romero used muzak that would be played inside a shopping mall within a film set in a shopping mall …
Continue reading Soundtrack of the Week- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
This Swedish thriller was long thought to be lost. I'm glad it's now newly discovered and released on Blu ray. It tells the tale of a mental institution resident who is thought to have escaped to take revenge on the people involved in his case who forced him to plead insanity. But if he escaped, …
An abominable snowman turns up at a snow resort and starts killing skiiers. And just before their Winter Carnival! So inconsiderate! Substitute the snow resort for a Cape Cod coastal tourist town. Substitute the Winter Carnival for the 4th of July. Substitute the Snowbeast for a killer Great White Shark. Boom! If this was the …
Continue reading Day 25- 31 Days of Halloween- Snowbeast (1977)
Arnold Masters is in prison for a crime he didn't commit. His mother who had a tumour was due to be operated on but wasn't. The doctor due to undertake the procedure was then found dead in his office by Arnold, who was then framed for his murder. He tells his backstory to a fellow …
Continue reading Day 24- 31 Days of Halloween- Psychic Killer (1974)
Donny is a very damaged person. After an incident at work sees one of his colleagues set himself on fire, we see Danny freeze with terror at the incident. This is explained through flashbacks. We see that as a boy his mother used to punish him by burning his forearms. When he returns home from …
Continue reading Day 11- 31 Days of Halloween- Don’t Go In The House (1979)
Jazz DJ Dave Garvin (Clint Eastwood) sleeps with a woman he seemingly randomly meets in a nightclub. But unfortunately for him she turns out to be a psychopath who is textbook Cluster B and as we would say in Yorkshire a 'wrong un'. This film is cracking. It's a stunning and, with hindsight, very realistic …
Continue reading Day 9- 31 Days of Halloween- Play Misty For Me (1971)
A far-out and thoroughly groovy tale of the swinging scene of 1970's California. But also a disturbing tale of childhood abuse. Molly has fantasies of tying up men that also involves the use of razors. Two American Football stars are found butchered. Could Molly be responsible? Have her fantasises started to overlap with reality? The …
Continue reading Day 4- 31 Days of Halloween- The Witch Who Came From The Sea (1976)
I'm loving going through the Yorkshire Evening Post's archives to reveal the ads used to publicise a film's release. I fondly remember seeing these as a kid- little glimpses into a film's grittiness and sleaziness when I was too young to actually see the film. The other day I stumbled upon the original ads …
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