Continuing our Hammer Horror month with a look at one of the company’s lesser efforts, another entry in the Mummy series.
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Halloween Hammer: The Witches
Continuing our Hammer retrospective month with a look at their uncharacteristic and underrated study of rural occultism.
Halloween Hammer: Countess Dracula
Continuing our Halloween month of Hammer Horror with their often-misunderstood take on the Countess Bathory legend.
Halloween Hammer: The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Continuing our Halloween Hammer Horror exploration with a look at one of the company’s lesser-known titles from their early ventures into the gothic.
Classic Albums Revisited: Ghost’s Infestissumam
The Swedish band’s irresistible collision of Satanic Metal and kitsch pop reaches the peak of perfection.
Monster Fun Rises From The Grave
The triumphant return of an iconic British comic book.
Metal Meltdowns – Very Heavy, Very Horrible Album Covers
A collection of heavy metal LPs where the artwork failed to live up to the ambition of the band.
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Miss Osbourne: Walerian Borowczyk’s Final Masterpiece
Walerian Borowczyk’s radical reinterpretation of the much-filmed horror story is a potent study in hypocrisy and liberation.
Rock Critic Confidential And The Rise And Fall Of Music Journalism
The self-importance – and actual importance – of the rock critic, and why collections of old rock star interviews still have value.
Pirates Of San Fernando Valley
These swash-buckling epics represent the last gasp of ambitious adult cinema.
Danger! Low Voltage – Electric Six’s Album Of Lacklustre Cover Versions
The disco-rock miscreants return with an album of other people’s songs that offers nothing new to the original versions.
The Other Justine – A High Camp Cinematic Car Crash
The George Cukor and Joseph Strick directed all-star melodrama is a kitsch disaster that fans of the accidentally ludicrous may find very much to their taste.