PAPERHOUSE
This brilliant but criminally neglected horror-fantasy is long overdue for a rediscovery
GOTHIC
I’m one of the very few people who’ll admit to liking this movie, an ostensible historical rendering of the conception of FRANKENSTEIN, filtered through the mad vision of the one and only Ken Russell
THE GORGON
This Hammer production features two of the studio’s biggest stars and one of its top directors. Those things, however, don’t make for one of Hammer’s better pictures!
LIFEFORCE
A product of the notorious Cannon Group directed by the late Tobe Hooper, and quite possibly the most sheerly ridiculous of all Hooper’s films
THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM
Goofy eighties horror-comedy from Ken Russell, whose finest work this definitely isn’t
TOWER OF EVIL
This 1972 British splat fest can be viewed, along with Mario Bava’s TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE, as the true prototype of the modern “slasher” film
TO THE DEVIL…A DAUGHTER
If you like Hammer films you might enjoy this 1976 production, Hammer’s final horror entry. I find it confusing and silly
THE DEVILS
Almost certainly director Ken Russell’s finest achievement, and definitely one of the most significant British productions of the seventies (if not ever)
DON’T LOOK NOW
One of the greatest horror movies of the 1970s, and indeed of all time: a sexy, innovative and atmospheric depiction of psychic terror
DON’T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS
British-made silliness with a novel twist on the Yuletide slasher formula: this time it’s not a mad Santa Claus on a killing spree but guys dressed as Santa who bear the brunt of the abuse