GREAT OLD MOVIES

RAW MEAT  (aka Death Line /1972). Director: Gary Sherman.  When an important dignitary vanishes from a London subway station, Inspector Calh...

TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER  (1976). Director: Peter Sykes. Author John Verney (Richard Widmark), who frequently writes on the occult, is import...

THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM  (aka Die Schlagengruber und das Pendel /1967). Director: Harald Reinl.  35 years ago Count Regula (Christ...

Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT  (1973). Director: Peter Sasdy.                                                     ...

FILMS I JUST COULDN'T FINISH ROUND  3 . These are not reviews, per se, but notes on films that I watched or suffered through until ...

Chris Lee as Fu THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU  (1967). Director: Jeremy Summers. Fu Manchu (Christopher Fee) has not only decided to bri...

DRACULA AND HIS PALS , This week Great Old Movies  looks at films starring the venerable old baddie, Dracula. You can already find revie...

New Blood: Christopher Neame as a young vampire DRACULA A.D. 1972  (also known as Dracula A.D./1972). Director: Alan Gibson. A prologu...

Christopher Lee as Dracula THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA  (1973). Director: Alan Gibson. Dracula (Christopher Lee) is alive and well an...

Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN   (1969). Director: Joseph McGrath. Wealthy Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) has no son...

THE HAMMER VAULT: Treasures from the Archives of Hammer Films . Marcus Hearn. Titan; 2011. Revised and Updated Edition. This beautiful o...

Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu: check out those nails! THE FACE OF FU MANCHU  (1965). Director: Don Sharp. A number of bodies turn up de...

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS  (1965). Director: Freddie Francis. In this horror anthology from ...

Jon Pertwee tries out his cloak THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD  (1971). Director: Peter Duffell. Screenplay by Robert Bloch. " Drac...

SHE  (1965). Director: Robert Day. In 1918, Leo Vincey (John Richardson), upon discovering that he looks exactly like an ancestor named ...

Pirate Christopher Lee confronts John Cairney THE DEVIL-SHIP PIRATES (1964). Director: Don Sharp. " That sort of talk's for ...

THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER (1962). Director: John Gilling. " I'm not a man of action. Perhaps I think too much to be brave ....

THE TERROR OF THE TONGS (1961). Director: Anthony Bushell. " Why is it these occidentals indulge in their vices the same way they ...

Chris Lee and cohorts seek safety inside circle THE DEVIL RIDES OUT (1968). Director: Terence Fisher. Screenplay by Richard Matheson , f...

Dracula (Christopher Lee) surveys the scene TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1970). Director: Peter Sasdy. Three gentlemen who are respect...