Peter Cushing – We Have Issues

The Skull (1965) – Review

June 23, 2026 greigzilla

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

The Devil’s Men (Aka. Land Of The Minotaur) (1976) – Review

April 26, 2026 greigzilla

Greeksploitation is one of the lesser known avenues for horror movies and the like, but look hard enough and you’ll find a few trash epics

The Beast Must Die (1974) – Review

January 9, 2025 greigzilla

There must have been some primo, top quality hallucinogenics flying around the sets of British set horror flicks during the 70s as such studios such

Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972) – Review

November 26, 2024 greigzilla

There aren’t too many movie like Robert Fuest’s The Abominable Dr Phibes and anyone who has sampled its psychotropic delights will probably agree with me

From Beyond The Grave (1974) – Review

August 5, 2024 greigzilla

Since 1965, the anthology movies of Amicus Productions had been providing us with movie after movie of grim karma and numerous things returning from the

Asylum (1972) – Review

August 3, 2024 greigzilla

Almost imperceptibly, the landscape of horror was changing. With the 60s now comfortably in the review mirror, a cadre of hungry directors are now poised

The House That Dripped Blood (1971) – Review

August 3, 2024 greigzilla

After a slow start (for a 60s horror studio at least), what would eventually become known as Amicus Productions portmanteau series finally shifted into a

Torture Garden (1967) – Review

August 2, 2024 greigzilla

After launching their particular brand of Hammer-alternative horror films with Dr. Terror’s House Of Horrors, Amicus honchos Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg decided that sticking

Dr. Terror’s House Of Horrors (1965) – Review

August 1, 2024 greigzilla

While Hammer Films is understandably credited as the leading light in British horror during its impressive reign, that’s not to say they were the only

Tales From The Crypt (1972) – Review

July 31, 2024 greigzilla

No one could quite line ’em up and knock ’em down like an EC Comics story, those gloriously nasty comic book morality tales that hit

The Gorgon (1964) – Review

July 11, 2024 greigzilla

While it’s hardly fair to say that Hammer Studios only made endless adventures featuring the antisocial exploits of Peter Cushing’s Frankenstein and Christopher Lee’s Dracula,

The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1959) – Review

April 9, 2024 greigzilla

There are now so many incarnations of Sherlock Holmes over the years, that deducing your own personal favourite probably has a lot to do with

Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974) – Review

March 5, 2023 greigzilla

During their golden years, Hammer films released horror movies that contained everything from Werewolves, Gorgons, zombies and a shit load of Vampires of varying genders

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) – Review

February 27, 2023 greigzilla

After six movies that followed a distinct rinse and repeat pattern of its fangy star rising from the dead, terrorising a handful of people and

At The Earth’s Core (1976) – Review

February 14, 2023 greigzilla

Sometimes a movie is so relentlessly cheesy and dated that it virtually becomes critic proof. Take that series of epically staged Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations

Creepshow – Season 2, Episode 5: Night Of The Living Late Show (2021) – Review

February 8, 2023 greigzilla

Ever since its return back in 2019, one of Creepshow’s most endearing traits surely has to be its insistence on homaging and riffing on not

The Vampire Lovers (1970) – Review

January 28, 2023 greigzilla

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

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) – Review

January 5, 2023 greigzilla

When the titles started rolling on Hammer’s previous Frankenstein endeavor, there was a feeling that Peter Cushing’s resident violator of the laws of nature was

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) – Review

December 13, 2022 greigzilla

If there’s something the Hammer series of Frankenstein movies has over the Universal series, it’s that the British studio opted to keep the films focus

The Evil Of Frankenstein (1964) – Review

November 28, 2022 greigzilla

As Hammer continued to churn out lavish horror flick after horror flick during the swinging sixties, one thing that seemed conspicuous by its absence was

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