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Village of the Damned **** (1960, George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips, Richard Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 3193

‘Beware the stare that will paralyse the will of the world.’ Co-writer/director Wolf Rilla’s 1960 British thriller Village of the Damned is securely based on John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos about a […]

Dec, 29

Quatermass and the Pit [Five Million Years to Earth] **** (1967, Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 3166

Director Roy Ward Baker 1967 sci-fi horror movie is the third and last of the Hammer Films’ versions of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass BBC television serials. It has London Underground excavators digging up a spaceship and […]

Dec, 18

Rasputin: The Mad Monk *** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Renée Asherson, Dinsdale Landen, Suzan Farmer, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2889

Director Don Sharp’s colourful and entertaining 1966 Hammer Films studios horror movie Rasputin: The Mad Monk finds Christopher Lee going bananas as the sinister mad monk Grigori Rasputin, who uses his hypnotic powers and sexuality […]

Sep, 07

The Gorgon *** (1964, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Patrick Troughton, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 2888

‘A Monster With the Power to Turn Living Screaming Flesh Into Stone!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 Hammer horror The Gorgon has an eerie touch in its story about the snake-haired mythical creature The Gorgon taking […]

Sep, 07

Cat Girl *** (1957, Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard) – Classic Movie Review 2758

Director Alfred Shaughnessy’s 1957 Anglo-American horror movie stars Barbara Shelley, who is perfectly cast in this eerie chiller as Leonora Brandt, a young woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told she has inherited […]

Jul, 30

Dracula: Prince of Darkness **** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Francis Matthews, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 1734

After a long gap, Hammer Films’ 1966 sequel to its finest achievement – the 1958 Dracula – resurrects the Count with the inestimable help of ultra-smooth Christopher Lee back in his most famous role as […]

Oct, 03

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