Road winds up to a castle door Towers and turrets and ramparts galore A dragon sits on a nearby hill Hatching its plots to attack and kill On a path through the forest and up to that place A young girl walks with an innocent face If you please, says the girl to the ravenous…
“Witchfinder General” is the third and final movie directed by Michael Reeves, who would pass away unexpectedly the following year. It involves the witch hunts that took place in many parts of Europe from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. This particular story takes place during the English Civil War, which ran from…
Now in the dead of night The spectre steps through from one world to the next In this borderland of ramparts and stone The watchers quail as it turns their way They see its face and know The dead king walks The king’s son, grief-laden Summoned by the watchers Waits in fearful anticipation And then,…
Full moon glows brightly In a sky awash with stars River of light winds its way Through a vale aglow with shining blossoms My boat glides down the water Towards the vanishing point of Heaven I am safe, O Lord It is Your own country Angel choirs sing Your eternal praise And I am at…
Christmas is full of tradition. Since the time it was first celebrated, and in many different parts of the world, traditions have been established, some to exist for a time and then die out, others that still go on to this day. I want to have a look at some of these traditions, their origins…
Let the music play, just let go And you will see it Marvellous shapes, indescribable colours Tints and hues constructing a world beyond imagining You will feel it Textures soft like silk, hard as diamond Rough of solid granite, smooth as translucent glass You will taste it Savor its sweetness, relish the tang Yes, let…
Night is long, dark and endless Why has light gone from the world? Where is the dawn? We try in our way to shine Stand up and give light to our own small worlds It’s hard to keep shining We can be extinguished so easily And darkness soon returns We need Heaven’s light We need…
“The Sorcerers” is the second of three films directed by Michael Reeves, who died shortly after making the third (“Witchfinder General”). This film stars Boris Karloff, Ian Ogilvy, and Catherine Lacey, and involves an elderly hypnotist who develops a device allowing remote control of another person’s mind, controlling that person’s actions even from a distance.…
Contemplate the end, my friend Doctors tell you one thing And next day, it’s something else There’s no one here to trust It’s time to sing, dear one To serenade the Death Angel Not to stop what must be But in acceptance of inevitability Don’t recoil from your vulnerability All this lives must die Smiling…
“Hammer House of Horror” can be seen as the last offering from Hammer Studios, at least in their classic period. It ran for one season of thirteen episodes, each one telling a different horror tale. While none of the episodes were bad, there was some variety in quality as there is with any television. In…
Eclectic Assemblage 