When I wrote about The Vengeance of She, I called it "odd." However, it has nothing over The Lost Continent. It's actually a...

Three years after She was a hit for Hammer, the studio produced a sequel called The Vengeance of She. It's barely about Ayesha ("She Who...

"This is a story of long, long ago when the world was just beginning." To the narrator's opening dialogue, I would add "a fictional...

If my information is correct, Prehistoric Women (aka Slave Girls in the UK) was made after One Million Years B.C. but was released in the...

Two years after Hammer made The Stranglers of Bombay, they changed the location from India to Hong Kong and jumped an era ahead from the...

The Pirates of Blood River is as much tale of the Huguenots as much as it is a tale of pirates. In terms of Hammer Films fictional...

On December 5, 1872, an American merchant ship named "Mary Celeste" was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean, off the...

There's a simple reason I haven't watched most of the Hammer adventure movies until now. Categorize them as you might, but the...

After always reading and hearing rave reviews for Night Creatures (aka Captain Clegg), I suppose I was destined be disappointed when I...

On December 23, the employees of the Haversham branch of the City & Colonial Bank come to work as they would on any other day. They...

Taste of Fear (aka Scream of Fear in the United States) was written by the prolific Hammer Films screenwriter, Jimmy Sangster. However,...

There are two scenes in Stop Me Before I Kill! demonstrating a visual style distinctive from the rest of the movie. Around the midway...

For most of The Snorkel, I felt as if the movie squandered its big gimmick in the opening scene. Paul Decker (Peter Van Eyck) constructs...

Oh my goodness, what do I make of Moon Zero Two? From the animated opening credits and song, I knew I was in for something bizarre. ...

A decade after Professor Bernard Quatermass appeared in two Hammer Films (The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass 2), he returned in...

What do you make of The Damned, a movie so frustrating and odd, yet so deeply fascinating? At its core, it’s a cerebral tale about early...

When we last saw Professor Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) at the end of The Quatermass Xperiment a year earlier, he wasn’t deterred by a...

Released in the United States less than a year after The Quatermass Xperiment, I'm compelled to compare X the Unknown with its...

The opening of The Quatermass Xperiment, known as The Creeping Unknown on its original United States release, is a marvelous example of...

If Four Sided Triangle was "nothing but a love story taking place in a technological surrounding," then Spaceways is nothing but a murder...