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 …
A Tigon film from 1967 regarding Marcus, a doctor (played by Boris Karloff) who practices hypnosis. His wife Estelle is also part of his practice as they search for a suitable subject for their experiments. Step forward swinging 60's hip-cat Mike Roscoe (played by future Saint Ian Ogilvy) who Marcus picks up in a Wimpy …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 11- The Sorcerers (1967)
This Tigon film takes place in Swinging London as we see a bunch of twentysomethings at a party who then decide to liven things up by going to an old out of town mansion that is reported to be haunted. The backstory as to why is that the family who used to lived there twenty …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 7- The Haunted House of Horror (1969)
This week's Poster of the Week is for the 1970 Beryl Reid shocker The Beast in the Cellar. Ms Reid deserves an article regarding her stellar output all of it's own and one day that will happen. This movie was actually released not just on it's own in the UK but also as a double …
Continue reading Poster of the Week- The Beast in the Cellar (1970)
I remember when I lived in London I loved perusing the list of films being shown citywide in the listings magazine Time Out. In those days (the mid 90s) there were plenty of funky little cinemas showing all manner of films old and new, renowned and obscure. I remember going to see Witchfinder General and …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 2- Witchfinder General (1968)
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