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Stanley Baker finds a strong vehicle in Hammer Films’ unusually energetic, atmospheric and swift-moving 1959 vintage crime thriller Hell Is a City, atmospherically shot largely on exteriors in Manchester, and topped of with an exciting, […]
Director Alan Birkinshaw’s just acceptable British 1989 thriller is the fourth of the four movie versions of Agatha Christie’s famous whodunit detective novel about 10 people invited by a mysterious stranger to an isolated location […]
Klaus Kinski resurrects his role as the infamous vampire Nosferatu in writer-director Augusto Caminito’s visually impressive semi-sequel to Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre. In the story by Alberto Alfieri and Leandro Lucchetti, a splendidly […]
‘It happens beyond madness – where your mind won’t believe what your eyes see.’ The follow-up to Vault of Horror (1973), director Freddie Francis’s 1973 all-star British horror movie is a shaky Amicus portmanteau film […]
The 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing third film of the famous Maurice Renard novel. Co-writer/director Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing […]
A dashing Richard Chamberlain swashes a merry buckle as Edmond Dantès, falsely sentenced to incarceration for life in the scary Chateau D’If jail, in screenwriter Sidney Carroll’s conscientious, literate and fairly faithful adaptation of the […]
Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran star as bumbling crooks on the lam in co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s startling, humorous and strange British black comedy shocker. The duo, one wounded and the other dying, take refuge at the Holy Island […]