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Director Robert Young’s 1972 Hammer Films British chiller Vampire Circus is a neat, eerie and attractively strange Hammer horror about a 19th-century touring circus show, whose performers are vampires, able to break through the black […]
Writer-director Jesús (Jess) Franco wraps up his quirky 1972 horror thriller sequel to his 1970 Count Dracula in a stylish set of Seventies-style Eastmancolor visuals, with frequent gory details and a welcome touch of humour. […]
Director Steven Spielberg’s 1989 third Indiana Jones adventure has everything it takes to entrance fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984): Harrison Ford, exciting stunts […]
Alas, Dodie Smith’s distinguished novel makes a disappointing, bloodless love story and coming-of-age movie, set in England in the Thirties. Romola Garai stars as young gel, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, in and out of love against […]
Peter Cushing returns as vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing in Hammer Films’ 1960 horror film Brides of Dracula, Terence Fisher’s first sequel to the 1958 Dracula, but David Peel replaces Christopher Lee as chief vampire […]
Director Don Sharp’s sinister 1963 movie The Kiss of the Vampire is a thoughtful and entertaining Dracula-style Hammer horror, with scary sequences and a well-judged good old-fashioned battle between good and evil. Noel Willman, a character […]
The 1971 horror film Lust for a Vampire is the second of Hammer Films’ three movies derived from J Sheridan Le Fanu’s book Carmilla. Though star Ralph Bates described it as ‘one of the worst […]