holiday camp (1947)

"I want to her to have a good holiday."
The Huggett family, (Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Hammond and Hazel Court), go on holiday to a Butlins style camp. There they make friends with a variety of people and various members of this extended party have fun, fall in love, get scammed out of money and even fall in with a murderer!
A genial and likable entertainment that now acts more as a look at the general activities and what passed for a good time following the war.

here we go round the mulberry bush (1967)

"That's the fun of living today, everything's fast, zoom zoom."
Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans), is an everyday 17 year old, growing up in the midst of the promiscuous society. He relates his growing frustration as he tries to click with women. The one woman he is desperate to get together with Mary Gloucester (Judy Geeson), only has eyes for older men with cars. So he chases a number of other girls in the meantime, with varying results, but no matter what happens he's always thinking of Mary.
A somewhat episodic work, that manages to create a charming nievity around itself.

the tingler (1959)

"Ladies and gentlemen, just a word of warning. If any of you are not convinced that you have a tingler of your own, the next time you're frightened in the dark... don't scream."
Scientist and coroner Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) is researching the nature of fear, and believes that he has found a creature that exists in our spines that feeds off this emotion, but is rendered harmless by screaming. In the course of his research Warren comes to know Ollie Higgins (Philip Coolidge) and his deaf-mute wife Martha (Judith Evelyn). Shortly after getting to know her Martha dies. Dr. Warner undertakes the autopsy and finds in her spine the creature. He believes as it is controlled by screaming, and that Martha being mute could not scream and render it harmless. Instead it grew and grew until it killed her. Then the creature escapes and Dr. Warner and Ollie have to try and recapture it before it strikes again.
Another classic from director William Castle, an entertainingly campy romp.

the beast with five fingers (1946)

"I wish you would keep your hands off my books."
A pianist (Victor Francen) in a small Italian village makes some associates certify he is not insane, but he clearly is when he tries to strangle Hilary Cummins (Peter Lorre). Following this incident he dies in a accident and his relatives gather for the funeral and the reading of the will and they throw Cummins out, calling him a freeloader. Then the murders begin and the villagers come to believe that the pianist's severed hand is responsible.
A old style classic horror, with a twist ending for those who want to play detective. What would be a run of the mill horror is enlivened by Lorre's performance as he runs away with the film.

the nutty professor (1963)

"Have no fear Buddy's here."
A timid school teacher (Jerry Lewis) concocts a formula that turns him into a swarve Don Juan type called Buddy Love, in order to get the girl of his dreams Stella Purdy (Stella Stevens). What he unknowingly unleashes is a lounge lizard with an ego that knows no limit, but still the girl falls for him. But the professor whats the girl to like him, not Buddy Love?
Jerry Lewis directs himself in this classic comic twist on the Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde story.

creatures the world forgot (1971)

"Takk!"
A tribe of pre-historic people try to eak a living out of an unforgiving landscape. A mountain tribe moves from its hunting grounds following a volcanic eruption. They move across the desert and come across a blond haired tribe, who they join forces with.
One Million Years BC this isn't. No stop motion dinosaurs, just primitive man fighting themselves and the elements, with nothing more than grunts in lue of language. A curio which tries to bring a realism to early man's struggles, even the beautiful actresses that normally grace such Hammer fare (such as Julie Ege) are dressed down here. Not to most people's taste, but I found the human struggle more than enough to not miss the dinosaurs!

doctor blood's coffin (1961)

"Noone's going to hold me back."
Dr. Peter Blood (Kieron Moore) is dismissed in disgrace from the hospital he is working at, for undertaking unsanctioned and morally questionable experiments on patients. He turns up at his fathers surgery in a remote Cornish village and immediately people start mysteriously disappearing, along with the Dr's supplies. Then Peter starts to take an interest his father's nurse (Hazel Court)...
Despite the gory sounding title, this is actually a more thoughtful take on the Frankenstein story, with a scientists dedication to finding a cure for death driving him beyond ethical practices.