There are lots of nutty women in Deadly Blessing. There’s the heroine, Martha Schmidt (Maren Jensen) – the widow of a member of the Hittite…
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A catastrophic volcanic eruption in the South Pacific creates a chain reaction that causes icebergs to crumble at the North Pole, freeing a gigantic praying…
This 1975 British psychological thriller begins with a violent escape from a lunatic asylum – but we don’t see who it was that escaped. Stephen Slade…
Two racketeers involved in a blackmail scheme murder the boyfriend of advertising executive Crystal Davies (Chesty Morgan, born Ilana Wajc). Crystal manages to follow the…
Sam Neill and Peter O’Toole star in an enigmatic tale of grumpy old codgers, intoxicating wines and reincarnated dogs. Adapted from Lord Dunsany’s 1936 novella…
Predictable and sentimental but nonetheless entertaining is this account of a small-town spinster no longer young who, after a trouble-strewn path to the altar, makes…
“I don’t want to become one of the living dead in Beverly Hills,” says plastic surgeon-turned-mortician Ernest Menville (Bruce Willis) in Robert Zemeckis’ black comedy…
Recently released from jail, New Jersey hood Jerry Bolanti (Joe Cortese) appeals to local crime boss Anthony Iadavia (Lou Criscuola) for a job. He is…
Death In Brunswick opens with an image that could be culled from any urban backstreet in Greece or Turkey. A hot wind whips along an empty…
Dirk Bogarde was at his finest as the dying composer rediscovering forbidden fruit in this dramatisation by director Luchino Visconti of the novella by Thomas Mann. Bogarde’s…
Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred…
“Mind the doors” In this highly recommended horror movie, reactionary cop Inspector Colquhoun (Donald Pleasence) investigates mysterious disappearances in the London Underground and makes the…
Peter Ustinov takes over from Albert Finney as pernickety Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in this solid, star-studded dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s paddle-steamer whodunnit, as he…
Set in the America of the future, the defending champion of the nationally televised Transcontinental Road Race – where contestants gain points by running over…
Fashion model Carol Halston (Mercy Haystead) learns that her sister Moira withdrew £7,000 from the bank the day before she died from a supposed overdose…
A dystopian science fiction picture shot in cinemascope, Bertrand Tavernier’s Death Watch is based on David G. Compton’s The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, a 1974 novel…
This sleazy and highly controversial crime thriller finally made Charles Bronson a star in America and set a regrettable trend for trashy and ultra-violent vigilante…
Returned Vietnam vets Steve (John Hargreaves) and Rod (legendary Aussie stuntman Grant Page in his first starring role) are working as television stuntmen (as a…
A coffin washed ashore on a Californian beach contains the corpse of Khorda (Robert Quarry), a vampiric guru. Resurrected, the undead fiend takes over as…
In the year 3000, a thousand years after the Great Neutron Wars have decimated the planet, Lord Zirpola (David McLean), the dictator of Helix City,…