Cult, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thrillers – Aggregated reviews, news and previews
Fear in the Night is a 1972 British psychological horror thriller feature film produced and directed by Jimmy Sangster from a screenplay co-written with Michael Syston. The Hammer Film Production stars Judy …
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‘A pretty co-ed’s part-time job leads to a bizarre payoff!’ Scream Pretty Peggy – aka Scream, Pretty Peggy – is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film directed by Gordon Hessler (Scream and Scream Again; Cry …
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‘Devils in female bodies… whose embrace is the kiss of death for man or woman!’ Lust For a Vampire is a 1970 British horror feature film directed by Jimmy Sangster …
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Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror is a 1994 British/American feature-length documentary film written and directed by Ted Newsom (The Naked Monster; 100 Years of Horror series; Ed Wood: Look …
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‘Screen’s greatest screamfest!’ The Revenge of Frankenstein is a 1958 British science-fiction horror feature film in which the Baron escapes the guillotine to continue his experiments. Directed by Terence Fisher …
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‘Murder put an end to their fears.’ Phobia is a 1980 Canadian-American horror thriller feature film about a group of criminal patients undergoing therapy being murdered one by one. The …
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‘This lady of the night has taken her last walk!’ Jack the Ripper is a 1959 British horror thriller film produced, photographed and directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman (producers …
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‘The world’s most evil vampire lives again!’ Dracula Prince of Darkness is a 1965 British supernatural horror feature film directed by Terence Fisher from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. The film …
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Good Against Evil is a 1977 American made-for-TV feature film directed by Paul Wendkos (The Mephisto Waltz) from a screenplay written by Hammer veteran Jimmy Sangster (Dracula; Paranoiac; Fear in …
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‘White-hot terror! Cold, clammy fear!’ Maniac – aka The Maniac – is a 1962 (released 1963) British psychological thriller directed by Michael Carreras for Hammer Film Productions from a screenplay by producer Jimmy Sangster. The …
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‘Nothing can stop it!’ X the Unknown is a 1956 British science fiction horror directed by Leslie Norman from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster (The Curse of Frankenstein; Dracula; The Mummy, …
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Crescendo is a 1969 (released 1970) British psychological thriller directed by Alan Gibson (Goodbye Gemini, Dracula A.D. 1972) from a screenplay by Alfred Shaughnessy (The Flesh and Blood Show) and Jimmy Sangster for Hammer Film Productions. The …
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‘Terrifying suspense… it will shock you out of your seat!’ Hysteria is a 1964 British psychological thriller directed by Freddie Francis (Nightmare; The Skull; The Creeping Flesh) from a screenplay by producer …
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‘The motion picture shocker of the year!’ Taste of Fear – US title: Scream of Fear – is a 1961 British horror thriller film directed by Seth Holt (Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb) and …
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‘No-one who saw it lived to describe it!’ The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British science fiction horror feature film directed by Terence Fisher from a screenplay by Jimmy …
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For some, all the world’s a stage, for others, a battlefield. Circumstances sometimes mean that these two options are thrust upon a person, both socially and as a career. It’s …
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‘Its evil look brings madness! Its evil spell enslaves! Its evil touch kills kills kills!’ The Mummy is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It was released …
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‘Three shocking murders did she dream them? …or do them?’ Nightmare is a 1963 [released April 1964] British psychological thriller horror film from Hammer Films, co-financed by Universal International. The film …
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The Horror of Frankenstein – aka Horror of Frankenstein – is a 1970 British horror feature film produced and directed by Jimmy Sangster from a screenplay co-written with Jeremy Burnham, it is both a semi-parody and remake …
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a 1971 British horror-thriller feature film directed by Curtis Harrington (Night Tide) and starring Ralph Richardson (Tales from the Crypt), Shelley Winters (Tentacles) and Mark Lester. Like …
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In the lacklustre Milton Subotsky production The Uncanny, Peter Cushing plays a man desperate to expose a sinister cat conspiracy against the human race: ‘They prowl by night… lusting for …
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Disciple of Death is a 1972 British horror feature film co-scripted and directed by Tom Parkinson (producer of Attack of the Sabretooth). The film was part-financed and stars Mike Raven, …
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‘Shocking! Horrifying! Macabre!’ Paranoiac – aka Paranoiac! – is a 1963 British horror thriller film from Hammer Films directed by Freddie Francis (Nightmare; Hysteria; The Skull). The screenplay was written by Jimmy Sangster, based loosely on the 1949 crime …
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Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British horror film directed by Henry Cass from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster (The Curse of Frankenstein; et al). Transylvania in the 19th century: A young doctor John …
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Jack the Ripper. The very name conjures up clichéd images of fog-shrouded streets, grisly murder and chirpy, voluptuous Cockney street girls spilling out of East End dens of inequity to …
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‘Evil beyond Exorcism’ The Legacy is a 1978 British-American horror film directed by Richard Marquand (Jagged Edge) from a screenplay originated (but apparently much-changed) by Hammer contributor Jimmy Sangster (Curse of Frankenstein; …
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‘The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a screaming world!’ The Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 “Saturday Serial” ITV British television programme and a …
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‘The Terrifying Lover – who died – yet lived!’ Dracula is a 1958 British supernatural horror film directed by Terence Fisher from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. It is the first in …
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