Tag: 1960s

The Skull (1965) – Review

Amicus Productions may not have had the longevity and fame of their distinguished competitor, Hammer, but they frequently proved their worth time and time again

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Cape Fear (1962) – Review

Sometimes, watching a film and its remake ass-backwards can be a shocking mistake to make. Watch the redux first – even one as top drawer

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Ocean’s Eleven (1960) – Review

There are certain things that spring instantly to mind when you think of the glittery, neon soaked streets of old school Las Vegas – slot

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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) – Review

When it comes to delivering truly unsettling, psychological thrillers, I feel that the general public isn’t giving certain decades their flowers. Oh sure, the 70s,

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The Phantom Of The Opera (1962) – Review

After taking up the horror baton from the truly seminal, genre defining run of creature features from Universal, Hammer Studios had carte blanche to take

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The Devil Rides Out (1968) – Review

We all know the deal with a Hammer horror movie by now, right? More often than not it’s an adaption/sequel of an existing property such

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The Reptile (1966) – Review

When you think of Hammer Studios, you tend to conjure up mental images of old castles, crayon red blood, heaving cleavage and big old mutton

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Hercules In The Haunted World (1961) – Review

What, you didn’t think hiring an auteur to leap aboard a franchise movie and craft a new, distinctive adventure for a recognizable character was a

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Tarzan And The Great River (1967) – Review

If there was a noticable flaw with Mike Henry’s tenure as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ lion grappling, vine travelling adventurer, is that his trio of Tarzan

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Dogora (1964) – Review

For a little while there, I was getting a little worried. When casting an eye over the filmography of Ishirō Honda I was starting to

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Marnie (1964) – Review

If there’s anything that Alfred Hitchcock loved more than an impeccably plotted setpiece or perfectly planned shot, it probably was taking the fraying psyche of

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I Am Sartana, Your Angel Of Death (1969) – Review

While the weird and wonderful world of Spaghetti Westerns can understandably be rather a niche and confusing place thanks to each film often owning a

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Zulu (1964) – Review

As time steadily ticks on, it often mean that certain opinions or takes on history tend to fall out of favour when more modern and

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The Mercenary (1968) – Review

There are those who view the dusty, sardonic works of Sergio Leone and feel that they’ve seen all they need to see when it comes

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Black Sabbath (1963) – Review

Just how exactly does a film that isn’t a household name get to be so ridiculously influential? Think I’m overacting? OK, stick with me here:

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Django The Bastard (1969) – Review

Guess what, cowpokes? It’s time to delve back into the weird, wonderful and wildly out of control world of the unofficial Django spin off that

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The Great Escape (1963) – Review

You can hear it right now, can’t you? The very second you read that title, I’m willing to bet folding money that Elmer Bernstein’s transcendent

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If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death (1968) – Review

It seems that the Wild West was quite the crowed place when you consider how many drifting, nomadic, charismatic gunslingers seemed to roamed the land,

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Sabata (1969) – Review

While the Western genre may not have as many reoccurring characters as, say, horror or action, there still are a few pistol drawing, longpokes who

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Black Sunday (1960) – Review

While Mario Bava doesn’t seem to get as much credit for creating a certain kind of visual style (I didn’t see him get name-dropped in

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