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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Pit And The Pendulum (1961) – Review

Of all the handsome Edgar Allan Poe adaptations Roger Corman mounted during the 60s, surely the most infamous was Pit And The Pendulum; a rousing

The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961) – Review

Can you believe that in all the years that Hammer paraded out all manner of bloodsucking beasties and reanimated rampages, they only made one werewolf

The Guns Of Navarone (1961) – Review

When you amass the titans of the men on a mission sub-genre of the movies made about the Second World War, more often than not

Gorgo (1961) – Review

Hey kids! You ever wonder what it would be like if England had it’s own version of Godzilla?Oh… You hadn’t…? Seriously…?Well, one exists anyway so

Mothra (1961) – Review

Ishiro Honda – surely the Stan Lee of monster movies – by this point in his career had belted out more than his fair share