Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Diana Dors, this film starts with three mysterious deaths, where the people involved appear to be murdered but without putting up a fight. The deaths are ruled as suicides, but Police Colonel Bingham (Lee), regards the deaths as suspicious. All three are trustees for a prominent orphanage in Scotland,…
“Gone Baby Gone” is a mystery/whodunnit involving the kidnapping of a little girl. Two private detectives are requested by the child’s aunt to investigate, as they live in a rough neighbourhood and she does not believe people will talk to the police (with some justification). The movie follows the investigation and what happens to the…
I want to start this review by saying I do not like slasher films. On the whole I find them pointless – usually involving mysterious guys in masks stomping around chopping people up in gory ways just because. That makes no sense to me. “You’re Next” was recommended to me as being not that kind…
“Night of the Hunter” is the only film legendary actor Charles Laughton ever directed. Unfortunately, it was a flop on release, and he never directed again. This is a shame, as this was a great film, if not without its flaws. Robert Mitchum plays Harry Powell, a self-styled reverend who cons and kills widows in…
“Images” is a horror movie directed by Robert Altman and starring Susannah York. Horror is not a genre usually associated with Altman, but his foray into this field is effective. A children’s author, Cathryn, is experiencing hallucinations and delusions. Her husband (Rene Auberjonois) takes her away to a cottage in the country, which is where…
“Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte” is a psychological thriller surrounding a murder that happened many years before. It is directed by Robert Aldrich, and stars Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Joseph Cotten. The murder, in the end, becomes a side issue to the events of the film. The story starts in the 20s, at the…
“Get Out” is a strongly satirical horror film about an African-American man who visits his white girlfriend’s parents for the weekend. She insists they are not racist, but he very quickly is met with firstly subtle racism of the try-hard type (‘I voted for Obama’) and then increasingly more overt racism. Added to this there…
“The 27th Day” is a science fiction movie set during the Cold War. An alien visits Earth and abducts five people (temporarily) to his spaceship. He tells them he has chosen them as a representative sample of the various people of Earth and gives them each a small container which has capsules that can kill…
Peter Cushing stars in this story concerning the ownership of the skull of the Marquis de Sade, and what happens to those who own it. There is a varied supporting cast, led by Christopher Lee and including Patrick Magee, Patrick Wymark, Michael Gough, and Frank Forsyth. After a prelude where a man digs up the…
One of the less well-known films from Hammer Horror, “The Gorgon” pairs Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in a muddled version of the gorgon of Greek mythology, transported to a European village. I say muddled because Megara, the gorgon of the title, was not a gorgon at all, but a fury. The gorgon Medusa could…
Eclectic Assemblage 