"After you've taken everything, what will be left?"
Aka The Feast
Waitress Cadi (Annes Elwy) is hired for the night by a wealthy family looking to impress some dinner guests, as a valuable business deal is at stake.
Brooding Welsh language eco-horror, throws some anti-capitalism into the mix of black humour and extreme violence.
4.3.23
five (1951)
"Not even a mouse."
Five people survive a nuclear holocaust, including Roseanne, a pregnant woman; Michael, a poet; Charles, a black man; Oliver, a banker; and Eric, a mountain climber, but soon they begin to get on each other's nerves...
Slow moving contemplation on 'hell is other people'.
Five people survive a nuclear holocaust, including Roseanne, a pregnant woman; Michael, a poet; Charles, a black man; Oliver, a banker; and Eric, a mountain climber, but soon they begin to get on each other's nerves...
Slow moving contemplation on 'hell is other people'.
Labels:
American,
Arch Oboler,
Sci-fi
the boogie man will get you (1942)
the boogie man will get you (1942)"Something always goes wrong."
Young divorcee Winnie Slade (Jeff Donnell) buys a rundown house from an eccentric professor (Boris Karloff) and tries to convert it into a hotel. Unfortunately the professor is piling up a lot of dead bodies in the basement due to his experiments on travelling salesmen!
Reminiscent of Arsenic and Old Lace, both Lorre and Karloff give it their all, but it doesn't quite match up to the screwball antics of the later picture.
Young divorcee Winnie Slade (Jeff Donnell) buys a rundown house from an eccentric professor (Boris Karloff) and tries to convert it into a hotel. Unfortunately the professor is piling up a lot of dead bodies in the basement due to his experiments on travelling salesmen!
Reminiscent of Arsenic and Old Lace, both Lorre and Karloff give it their all, but it doesn't quite match up to the screwball antics of the later picture.
Labels:
American,
Comedy,
Horror,
Lew Landers
26.2.23
images (1972)
"Shut up! You're dead!"
Writer Cathryn (Susannah York) receives some disturbing phone calls suggesting her husband Hugh (Rene Auberjonois) is having an affair. So the couple move to their remote Irish holiday home to work things out. But initial contentment turns sour as she starts hearing voices and seeing apparitions and her paranoia builds...
A fluid psychological horror, as Cathryn moves from reality to nightmare.
Writer Cathryn (Susannah York) receives some disturbing phone calls suggesting her husband Hugh (Rene Auberjonois) is having an affair. So the couple move to their remote Irish holiday home to work things out. But initial contentment turns sour as she starts hearing voices and seeing apparitions and her paranoia builds...
A fluid psychological horror, as Cathryn moves from reality to nightmare.
Labels:
American,
Horror,
Robert Altman
hammerhead (1968)
"Good luck to you Hood, I think you are going to need it."
Charles Hood (Vince Edwards) is recruited by British Intelligence to get close to international crime boss Hammerhead (Peter Vaughan), who is suspected to be trying to steal NATO defense secrets. If that wasn't complicated enough, model Sue Trenton (Judy Geeson) has taken a shine to Hood, and trails him wherever he goes.
A swinging London riff on James Bond, with a distinctly one dimentional central character that doesn't quite hit the mark.
Charles Hood (Vince Edwards) is recruited by British Intelligence to get close to international crime boss Hammerhead (Peter Vaughan), who is suspected to be trying to steal NATO defense secrets. If that wasn't complicated enough, model Sue Trenton (Judy Geeson) has taken a shine to Hood, and trails him wherever he goes.
A swinging London riff on James Bond, with a distinctly one dimentional central character that doesn't quite hit the mark.
Labels:
British,
David Miller,
Thriller
unpublished story (1942)
"This is a total war, the idea of non=combatants is a non starter."
An English war correspondent Bob Randall (Richard Greene) returns from Dunkirk having been one of the last off the beaches. Annoyed he turns his attention to a pascifist group, but his story is spiked by Home Security. This only serves to get him mad, and determined to investigate Home Security and their attatchments to the peace movement. Are they Nazi sympathizers, or could they have been infiltrated by Nazi fifth columnists.
An interesting propaganda piece attacking defeatism in the midst of war, with a nice sideline in slice of life during the blitz.
An English war correspondent Bob Randall (Richard Greene) returns from Dunkirk having been one of the last off the beaches. Annoyed he turns his attention to a pascifist group, but his story is spiked by Home Security. This only serves to get him mad, and determined to investigate Home Security and their attatchments to the peace movement. Are they Nazi sympathizers, or could they have been infiltrated by Nazi fifth columnists.
An interesting propaganda piece attacking defeatism in the midst of war, with a nice sideline in slice of life during the blitz.
Labels:
British,
Drama,
Harold French
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)