the naked witch (1961)

"Well, I'll be damned."
A student visits a rual Texan village to study witchcraft, and gets more than he bargained for...
Cheap and not so cheerful...

pilgrimage (2017)

"It's been a long time since we've had visitors."
1209 AD and group of monks, including a religious novice (Tom Holland), journey across a riven Ireland to deliver a holy relic to Rome. Protecting it are a mute (Jon Bernthal), with a troubling back-story, and a Cistercian(Stanley Weber).
Beautifully shot, but with a script that fails to flesh out the characters we journey with.

derby day (1952)

"He wanted to touch me for a quid."
Ensemble piece that gathers the stories of a variety of people who are drawn to the Epsom Derby; from a couple on the run for murder, to a Canadian girl who is having the day of her life with a film star.
The great and the good of British actors come together in an entertaining film, that mixes pathos, romance and drama.

beyond the door (1974)

aka The Devil Within Her.
"I feel it is trying to suffacate me, trying to kill me."
Jessica Barrett (Juliet Mills) gets unexpectedly pregnant, and quickly her mental and physical health starts to suffer. Then Dimitri (Richard Johnson) shows up and starts to coach her through the pregnancy, but why is he so concerned that she give birth?
A film that suffers from inevitable comparisons with the then recently release The Exorcist.

snowbouond (1948)

"We must meet again."
Ex-Intelligence agent Engles (Robert Newton) recruits a team, (including Dennis Price, Stanley Holloway & Herbert Lom), to pretend they are making a film in the Italian Alps. But really they are on the hunt for hidden Nazi treasure.
As implausable as it sounds.

laser mission (1989)

aka Soldier of Fortune.
"I represent a number of concerned citizens in the United States."
Michael Gold (Brandon Lee) is a mercenary sent to Cuba to pursuade laser expert Prof. Braun (Ernest Borgnine) to come to the USA, but they instead end up in the hands of the KGB. Michael escapes, and vows to rescue the professor, but to do that he needs the help of the Professor's daughter (Debi Monahan), who he's told is a member of the KGB.
The bad acting, and action sequences are as plentiful as the cliques.

the forest (1982)

"There's something following us."
Two couples decide to head up into the hills for a bit of backpacking. Little do they know that they are heading straight for some woods where a cannibal hermit is living...
A horror that never seems to get to the horror.

the creeper (1977)

aka Rituals.
"It's like a minefield out there!"
Dr Harry (Hal Holbrook) goes on treking with four friends every year in the Canadian wilderness, but this time they soon realise they are being stalked and prevented from leaving...
Cheap but suspenseful horror.

lease of life (1954)

"I've nothing against the living."
A country vicar (Robert Donat) finds out he is dying, and this gives him cause to reconsider his life, and his advice to those he serves. Something that disturbs some of his parisoners and fellow men of God.
Heart-warming drama, that will never linger in the memory.

the vampire happening (1971)

aka Gebissen wird nur nachts - das Happening der Vampire.
"It's nice to be back amongst the living."
American actress Betty Williams (Pia Degermark) inherits a Transylvanian castle. What she does not know is that her vampiric ancestor, is still plaguing neighbourhood.
A curiousity that is neither comedy, or horror, but is wonderfully kitsch.

to dorothy a son (1954)

aka Cash on delivery.
"I love you Elmer, I mean Tony."
Tony Rapallo (John Gregson) and his wife Dorothy (Peggy Cummins) are making heavy weather of having a baby. Then to make things worse Tony's first wife Myrtle (Shelley Winters) arrives. She tries to tempt him back with news that she is about to inherit $2m from her uncle, but what she doesn't tell him is the inheritance is dependant on him not having any male heirs.
A comedy that wears quickly.

jet storm (1959)

aka jetstorm.
"Your time is up!"
Ernest Tilley (Richard Attenborough), tracks down the man who killed his daughter in a hit-and-run. Unfortunately his plan to enact his vengeance takes place on a trans-atlantic plane journey and the other passengers have their own opinion on the unfolding drama.
A packed plane, full with name actors, whose stories each unfold in this early disaster movie.

dancing with crime (1947)

"You're not going to get mixed up in this are you?"
Taxi driver Ted Peters (Richard Attenborough), finds his dodgy mate Dave (Bill Owen) dead in his cab, shot in a gang squable. With thoughts that Dave talked before his death, the gang decide to snuff Ted out. Can Ted get to the bottom of events before the gang manage to get to him?
British B-movie, with an uncredited Dirk Bogarde and Diana Dors to keep you watching.

the mind of mr soames (1970)

"What if he never wakes up?"
Thirty year old Mr Soames (Terence Stamp) has been in a coma since birth, but then Dr Bergan (Robert Vaughn) wakes him up, and plans to fast-track his education and development from child to man. Inevitably though things go wrong...
Intreging premise, that never quite sparks to life.

the ugly duckling (1959)

"Contain's that powerful new ingredient...gin."
The shy and awkward chemist Henry Jekyll (Bernard Breslaw) finds his great, great, grandfather's formula. A formula that transform's him into the suave Teddy Hyde, and as Teddy he soon gets involved with a gang of jewel thieves.
A comic updating of the Jekyll and Hyde story, that predates the Jerry Lewis comic take on the same story.

ravenous (2017)

aka Les affamés.
"I don't want to scare you, but if you ask me, there is something up on Route 8."
Bonin (Marc-André Grondin) and Tania (Monia Chokri) dodge zombies, whilst looking for other survivors in upstate Quebec.
Disturbing French-Canadian horror, as much for the lack of explaination.

under the shadow (2016)

"Did you sleep ok last night?"
Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, and a mother and daughter (Narges Rashidi & Avin Manshadi) struggle from day to day, especially when missiles start to fall, and then the daughters doll goes missing and she blames an unknown evil...
Slow and suspencseful horror that rewards your patience.

errementari: the blacksmith and the devil (2017)

"A man so evil, so cruel, even the devil himself would fear him."
A small Basque village in the 19th C, is home of Usue (Uma Bracaglia), a young child who has lost her mother to suicide, and a hermit blacksmith (Kandido Uranga) with lots of secrets.
A retelling of the fable adds many twists to the tale of hell and redemption.

the flying scot (1957)

aka The Mailbag Robbery.
"Time. Time. We are all dominated by time."
When Ronnie (Lee Patterson) learns that the Flying Scotsman train is carrying withdrawn bank notes from Scotland to London, he quickly plans to relieve the government of this burden.
Engaging thriller, that explains the heist, before unveiling the reality.