Joseph Losey’s These are the Damned (aka The Damned) is one of the better thrillers to ever be released by Hammer Studios, although, apart from the presence of studio mainstay Oliver Reed, it hardly seems to fit into their repertoire. Yet they can claim it proudly – there, it says “shot in Hammerscope” in bright [...]

Glenn McQuaid’s homage-driven I Sell the Dead is a film of small but welcome pleasures – for those who get the homages, at least. In this day and age, the Age of the Geek, that’s not such an obstacle. The film begins in the 19th century with the execution by guillotine of notorious gravedigger (and [...]

In one of the hugely popular God of War video games, Kratos, the protagonist out to avenge the death of his wife at the hand of Ares, encounters Perseus, one of the better-known characters of Greek mythology, and the hero of the 1981 Ray Harryhausen effects spectacle Clash of the Titans.  Since you are playing Kratos, [...]

I still haven’t read H. Rider Haggard’s She, but I’m on to my next film telling of the pulp semi-classic after thoroughly enjoying the 1935 Merian C. Cooper version: the 1965 Hammer Films adaptation produced by Michael Carreras and directed by Robert Day.  If that last name seems unfamiliar, that’s because Day spent most of [...]

Working a long work week, week after week, exhausted and stressed out and having a hard time cordoning off that part of the brain, struggling with insomnia, I find myself time and again taking in comfort foods – films and TV shows that activate my escapism valves.
Watching Mystery Science Theater 3000, particularly the early Joel [...]