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Boxing Clever: Seijun Rising: The Youth Movies (Seijun Suzuki: The Early...
(This is a new thing where I’m going to look collectively at the films included on some box sets I’ve recently been working my way through.)I can’t be the only one out there who sometimes wonders what...
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Gothic Originals: Lady Frankenstein (Mel Welles, 1971)
PLEASE NOTE: As a result of the fact that I am still unable to take screengrabs from blu-ray discs, readers should be aware that the images above are taken from an old DVD edition of this film, and...
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Two-Fisted Tales: Kill Me On The Ginza by Earl Norman (Erle Books, 1969 /...
Hunting for English language volumes in the dozens of second hand book shops that fill the Jimbocho area (colloquially known as “old book town”) in Tokyo’s Kanda district can be an interesting...
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Boxing Clever: Four Film Noir Classics (Arrow Academy / 2017)
I’m sure I must have griped before in these pages about the overly broad definition of the term “film noir” often employed in publicity materials for revival screenings and DVD/Blu-ray releases, and my...
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Obligatory ‘Apologies’ Post.
Big Tambo selects his summer reading.So, I just thought I’d drop a quick line to regular readers to apologise for the complete collapse of my aspirational once-a-week posting regime over the...
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Dennis’s Library (#5): Carnacki The Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson...
To get us in the mood for the start of this year’s October Horrors season next week, I thought it would be a nice idea to highlight a few suitably eerie occult/horror-ish paperbacks from my shelves –...
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Dennis’s Library (#33): The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson (Sphere, 1975)
After searching for this book for much of my adult life (because if one of the greatest cosmic horror authors who ever lived had a yarn about Ghost Pirates, I want to read it), I actually found this...
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Dennis’s Library (#40): The Curse of the Wise Woman by Lord Dunsany (Sphere,...
By this point, it seems that the Dennis Wheatley Library Of The Occult had abandoned their distinctive circular, zodiac sign cover designs; which is a blessing in this particular case, because the...
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Tomorrow!
Just a quick note to remind everybody that this blog’s second annual October Horrors marathon begins tomorrow, during in which I will attempt to post a new, full length-ish review of a horror movie...
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October Horrors # 1: Hellbound: Hellraiser II (Tony Randel, 1988)
Warning: pretty heavy duty spoilers for this thirty year old film follow.As I have stated before in these pages (in last year’s review of The Void, funnily enough - a film that likely has more than a...
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October Horrors # 2: Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (Anthony Hickox, 1992)
Say what you like about this much despised second sequel to Clive Barker’s ‘Hellraiser’, but at least it’s consistent. Whereas the more highly regarded ‘Hellbound: Hellraiser II’ sent us on a...
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Exploito All’Italiana / October Horrors # 3: Cannibal Apocalypse (Antonio...
AKA ‘Invasion of the Flesh Hunters’, ‘Cannibals in the Streets’.Readers who have been keeping up with my reviews of Italian exploitation films over the past few years will probably not need to be...
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October Horrors # 4: Not Of This Earth (Roger Corman, 1957)
My attempts to gradually familiarise myself with Roger Corman’s pre-‘House of Usher’ filmography may have hit choppy waters last year with The Undead and Creature from Haunted Sea, but we finally make...
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October Horrors # 5: Incense For The Damned ([no credited director], 1971)
AKA ‘Bloodsuckers’, ‘The Freedom Seeker’.It has been many years since I last watched ‘Incense For The Damned’, and although – uh, spoiler alert? - it is not a good film by any stretch of the...
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Gothic Originals / October Horrors # 6: El Mundo De Los Vampiros (Alfonso...
I confess, I get all these ‘50s/’60s Mexican vampire movies a bit confused. There were just so many of them produced in such a short time frame, all with fairly similar titles. Consulting the chapter...
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October Horrors # 7: Train To Busan (Sang-ho Yeon, 2016)
So, seems like this one pretty much knocked it outta the park as far as South Korean zombie movies go, right?I actually first became aware of ‘Train to Busan’ a few years ago, when a freelance work...
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October Horrors #8: Haunted (Michael de Gaetano, 1977)
I’ve been interested in seeing this film ever since I first caught a glimpse of the poster reproduced above. I mean, just look at it. “It began the day they installed that telephone booth in the...
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Nippon Horrors / October Horrors #9: Ghost Stories of the Seven Wonders of...
Original title: 怪談本所七不思議 / 'Kaidan Honjo Nanafushigi'The introduction to this Shintoho b-feature could prove a bit perplexing for us many of us gaijin, as voiceover narration tells us about a Tanuki...
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October Horrors # 10: A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018)
Welcome to the High Concept Zone, where we find a very 21st century iteration of the ideal American nuclear family living in a state of total silence, in an eerily depopulated version of rural upstate...
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Gothic Originals / October Horrors # 11: Scars of Dracula (Roy Ward Baker, 1970)
Another year, another straggler crossed off the increasingly short list of “Hammer horror films I’ve never seen”. In fact, if we strictly limit things to their period/gothic horror output, I think this...
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