Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Couch Potato Pickings On BBC1 today at 4.30pm I’m not a big fan of animated films but I make an exception for Wallace and Gromit. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in this country without these...
View ArticleCouch Potato Pickings | Did Hammer Horror take the dread out of Dracula?
When I was a kid I had this well-thumbed book about mysteries and the unexplained. From UFOs to the Bermuda Triangle, Nessy to the Yeti, and werewolves to vampires, it showcased an exciting range of...
View ArticlePete’s Peek | Out of the Hammer horror film archives – Dracula, Prince of...
With The Woman in Black recently taking fright in UK cinemas, the rebirth of Hammer horror seems assured – but what about the iconic British studios classic film legacy? Never fear as StudioCanal has...
View ArticlePete’s Peek | What deliciously scary surprises await inside your Basket Case...
From Second Sight comes the midnight movie favourite, Basket Case, remastered on Blu-ray using the original 16mm master. If you still own the old VHS or have a dodgy TV recording on DVD, then now is...
View ArticleThe BFI’s Monster Weekend to screen three classic horror films at the British...
As a curtain raiser to its ambitious Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film project starting this August, the BFI will screen three classic 1950′s horror films in the forecourt of the British Museum over the...
View ArticleBFI Gothic takes over the British Museum for a Monster Weekend
The BFI’s Monster Weekend, part of their Gothic season, kicked off at the British Museum last night with an open-air screening of a newly-restored version of 1957′s Night of the Demon with star Peggy...
View ArticleChill out with some Hammer horror on BBC2 this Christmas and New Year
Fancy spending the festive season in the company of vampires, an ancient Egyptian mummy, Frankenstein’s creature, a Yeti and a psycho, then why not check out BBC2’s homage to Hammer horror with a...
View ArticleDracula Untold | Film review – Cinema’s favourite bloodsucker goes back to...
Cinema’s favourite bloodsucker gets the superhero treatment with an origin story that sees Luke Evans’s 15th-century Transylvanian warrior Prince Vlad III – known to history as Vlad the Impaler –...
View ArticlePenny Dreadful | Blu-ray/DVD review – Victorian Gothic horror series is a...
A Gothic horror series set in a Victorian London populated by some of English literature’s most iconic villains and monsters, including Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein, Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray...
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