Hammer Films’ revision of Bram Stoker’s famous novel is one of the great horror films. Director Terence Fisher, who combines a cutter’s eye for bold…
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This ill-conceived attempt at updating Dracula sees the vampire (once again played by Christopher Lee) materialise in swinging London. He looks sorely out of place…
This humorous story tells us that the ageing Prince of Darkness (Christopher Lee) decides he should have an heir to his estates and vampiric tradition.…
A weak priest provides the blood that revives the evil Count Dracula and becomes his servant in a typical dose of vampire flesh-creeping from the…
It is 1895. Four travellers are left abandoned at nightfall at a lonely crossroad in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe by a local coach…
When Los Angeles is confronted with a series of bizarre crimes, it is up to by-the-book cop Joe Friday and his unconventional new partner Pep…
When Galen (Peter MacNicol in his film debut), ward of the earth’s last master wizard, Ulrich (Ralph Richardson), tries to use his master’s magic against…
Louise Blake (Fay Spain) loves hot cars but her parents don’t. She likes wealthy, existential hot-rodder Fred Armstrong (John Ashley) but her parents don’t. After…
This is the story of teenage youths who live as fast as their hot rods will carry them. The newcomer to the gang, Rick Martin (Gary…
Peter Greenaway’s audacious film (his first commercially released feature film) landed in 1980s Britain like ET’s spaceship in the Californian woods. Unrealistic and baffling – featuring a living…
Upper-class English rose Diana Markham (Jemma Redgrave) and spikey American goth Jenny Hoffman (Kathleen Wilhoite) find themselves linked by a house: Jenny through a pre-adoption…
Michael Keaton plays a silver-tongued, lovable rogue in this light-hearted spin on One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), in which a group of four inmates…
In 1932, 80-year-old Alice Liddell Hargreaves (Coral Browne) – the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll (the pen name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) to…
The opening scene of Dressed To Kill shows Angie Dickinson in the shower, licking her lips and having a pornographic fantasy. The character is frustrated housewife Kate Miller. The…
Cold, ruthless and utterly professional, The Driver (Ryan O’Neal) is the best getaway man in Los Angeles. He freelances for crooks, providing his expensive services…
Chauffeur Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman) sits in the front seat of the car with his hands on the steering wheel, but the driver’s seat is…
Young Elizabeth Cronin (Ashley Peldon) has an imaginary friend called Drop Dead Fred. Imaginary friends are usually nice little boys and girls. But not Drop…
In one of writer/director Peter Greenaway’s darkest comedies, three generations of womenfolk, all named Cissie Colpitts, drown their menfolk with the acquiescence of the local…
This provocative and downbeat drama set in early 1970s Oregon looks at the sordid life of four junkies who rob pharmacies to support their habits,…
Tough Indian fighter Johnny MacKay (Alan Ladd) is appointed to make peace with a troublesome tribe in California in this fact-based western, which gave Charles Bronson…
