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Category: films
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Death Line is a 1972 horror film starring Donald Pleasance, and featuring a cameo appearance from Christopher Lee. Student Patricia, and her American boyfriend Alex, are travelling on the London Underground late one evening when they find a respectable looking man lying unconscious on the stairs. After eventually convincing a policeman to investigate, they discover…
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Lust for a Vampire is a 1971 British Hammer horror film, written by Tudor Gates and directed by Jimmy Sangster. The film, which is part two of the so-called Karnstein Trilogy, is set 40 years after 1970’s The Vampire Lovers, and tells the story of novelist Richard LeStrange, who comes to a village to do…
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula is a 1973 Hammer film, written by Don Houghton and directed by Alan Gibson. It stars Christopher Lee, making his final appearance as Dracula, and Peter Cushing as Professor Van Helsing. Set in 1970s London, the plot resolves around the secret service investigating apparent satanic rituals at an English country…
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Quatermass II is a 1957 Hammer sci-fi / horror which sees Brian Donlevy reprise his role as Professor Bernard Quatermass. Co-written by Nigel Kneale and Val Guest (who also directed), the story concerns an investigation into reports of hundreds of meteorites landing within a small area in the U.K. Quatermass finds a top-secret facility which,…
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The Swarm is a 1978 U.S. disaster / horror movie, directed by Irwin Allen, AKA The Disaster Master, and starring Michael Caine and a bunch of famous faces who really ought to have known better. Basically, a swarm of African killer bees are on the loose, taking out military helicopters, random picnicking families, and a…
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Terror at London Bridge is a 1985 TV movie about a series of murders in Arizona being attributed to Jack the Ripper. It stars David Hasselhoff – AKA The Hoff-Meister – as a troubled detective investigating a series of murders which are somehow connected to the relocated London Bridge. We start off in 1885 with…
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The Vampire Lovers is a 1970 Gothic horror film, written by Tudor Gates and directed by Roy Ward Baker. It is the first in the so-called “Karnstein Trilogy”, and stars Ingrid Pitt, Kate O’Mara and Peter Cushing. Oh Lordy, where do I start? Basically, Ingrid Pitt plays a vampire who tries to seduce every young…
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The Unfolding is a 2016 horror film, written and directed by Eugene McGing With the world teetering on the brink of nuclear war, paranormal researcher Tam and his girlfriend Rose travel through the English countryside to investigate supposed ghostly goings-on in an old country house. On arrival, they are greeted by the current occupier who…
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Horror Express is a 1972 sci-fi horror film directed by Eugenio Martín and starring horror legends Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Set in 1906, we meet Lee’s Alexander Saxton, an eminent anthropologist, returning to Europe via the Trans-Siberian Railway with the frozen remains of a humanoid discovered on one of his expeditions – potentially the…
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The Quatermass Xperiment is a 1955 Hammer film directed by Val Guest. It was based on the 1953 BBC serial of the same name. Three astronauts are sent into space in a rocket designed by Professor Quatermass. The rocket crash lands back on Earth, and only one astronaut – the unfortunate Victor Carroon – is…
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