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All tagged British Film
Our Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is back and hypothesising just what goes into the development process of a Hammer Film and wishing that Hammer had signed Tallulah Bankhead to a 10 picture deal because of her excellent presence in 1965’s Die! Die! My Darling! AKA Fanatic.
Can you truly enjoy a movie that you objectively know is terrible and can anyone ever really step into Cushing and Lee’s shoes? That’s what our Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is wondering when it comes to 1970’s The Horror of Frankenstein starring Ralph Bates, Kate O’Mara and David Prouse.
We talk the last of our current run of Donald Pleasence movies, Dirty Knights' Work AKA Trial by Combat AKA A Choice of Weapons, a thoroughly British comedy drama about a bunch of wannabe toffs taking dress up too far and then we make an Eric Idle based decision that could end the podcast for ever!!
The English and the French - boy is there a complicated relationship! It’s one that our resident Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down the Pub, discusses in his latest review for the 1960 relationship horror, Stop Me Before I Kill!
The Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is embracing the goofy and offering a hand across the ocean to cinematic huckster William Castle and his 1963 collaboration with Hammer, The Old Dark House.
The Bloke Down The Pub, our Hammer Horror fanatic, ruminates on how casting can prove so vitally important to presenting a strong idea well, especially where The Snorkel, from 1958, is concerned.
When we need him most, the Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down The Pub, is back and this time he’s gone back to the beginning, to when Hammer Films took their first tentative steps in to the realm genre film with the 1953’s Sci-Fi effort Four Sided Triangle. What did they learn, what mistakes were made? read on…
Aaron Carruthers is back and taking a look at the new Blu-Ray/DVD release of Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light.
The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, is realising just because you don’t have the best boss doesn’t mean you can’t do good work in Hammer’s 1963 film, Maniac.
Our resident Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down the Pub, is back and discussing both the upsides and downsides of the years in which Hammer movies were made versus the present time, especially with how it relates to the lighting in 1966’s The Reptile.
Jon Cross takes a look at the new British Folk Horror, Gwen, the feature film directorial debut of William McGregor, Starring the amazing Eleanor Worthington-Cox. Out on August 16th in the U.S.
Aaron Carruthers looks at the new Second Sight Films Blu-Ray release of the Amicus produced, horror classic, The House That Dipped Blood starring genre stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt.
Jon is joined by his amazing wife Kimberly to talk the new British/Scottish film Wild Rose starring the incredible Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters.
Jon Cross reviews the latest collaboration between director Jesse V Johnson and actor Scott Adkins. A hard hitting, London, gangster, revenge story with an electrifying central performance.
The Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is fascinated by what people had to worry about in the sixties while relishing in the apocalypse, thanks to 1962 film They Are The Damned featuring Oliver Reed.
For his 50th Hammer Horror review, The Bloke Down The Pub talks about why 1958’s Dracula AKA Horror of Dracula remains the quintessential Hammer film and the benchmark by which all others are measured.
Also we reveal The Bloke Down The Pub’s true identity!!!
The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, sometimes does things a bit backward, like reviewing the first part of “The Karnstein Trilogy “, 1970's The Vampire Lovers, last. Delight as he struggles not to go on and on about bleedin’ Tudor Gates!
Our resident Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down the Pub, wrestles with bonkers plot biscuits and the looming spectre of the BBC in his review of 1967’s Quatermass and the Pit AKA Five Million Years to Earth.
