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Tag: 1970s
The Incredible Melting Man
There’s something about a truly lurid movie title that speaks directly to that lizard part of my brain and demands that I have to simply
The Vampire Lovers
Back in their glory days, the vampire-themed horror movies Hammer Films released into an unsuspecting public were always charged with a subtle sexual energy, what
Elvis
The filmography of John Carpenter may not be one that initially seems like it could be home to the legend known as Elvis Aaron Presley
Taste The Blood Of Dracula
For any studio that tends to focus on a more singular output, the name of the game is to try and make sure your product
Squirm
While describing the 70’s output of nature going crazy movies as a heyday may strain your personal definition of what a heyday should be, there’s
Midway
When filmmakers opt to make a film that covers a large aspect of a war, they invariably find themselves faced with something of a Sophie’s
The Eagle Has Landed
World War II men on a mission movies: we all know them and we all love them (the good ones, anyway) but sometimes, aside from
Lust For A Vampire
It’s not exactly ground breaking to declare that, compared to most other horror movies made at the time, Hammer Films’ output was noticeably hornier than
Dark Star
Everybody has to start somewhere and in the case of deliriously influential film director, John Carpenter, the start was a forty minute student film made
Kingdom Of The Spiders
One of the more fondly remembered killer bug movies of the 70’s, Kingdom Of The Spiders is a film that, much like its eight legged
Someone’s Watching Me!
Usually, digging up an old TV movie made by an established director is usually the act of a completist fan who wishes to finish off
Vampire Circus
It may be something of a hot take, but when comparing Hammer’s unreasonably sizable catalogue of vampire movies side by side, you start to realise
Countess Dracula
As Hammer Films cruised into the 70’s, expanding upon the elevated sex and violence the changing times and audience demand required, there was sometimes a
Twins Of Evil
After lesbian tinged The Vampire Lovers and Lust For A Vampire, Hammer Films closed out their lusty Karnstein Trilogy with Twins Of Evil, an apparent
Hands Of The Ripper
Hammer Films was chiefly renowned for their revolutionary contributions to the horror genre, but when they weren’t slapping a new coat of paint on such
Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb
As the production line of Hammer Films trundled on provide its audiences with their fourth and final Mummy pic, a rash of behind the scenes
Escape From Alcatraz
Over four collaborations that had started in 1968 with Coogan’s Bluff and ended in 1971 with the seminal Dirty Harry, the team of Don Siegel
The Fearless Hyena
After years of honing his particular brand of Kung fu laced with broad physical comedy in such flicks as Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow and
Eaten Alive
After The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had cut a bloody swathe through cinemas and drive-ins up and down America, maverick/lunatic Tobe Hooper had a decision to
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