The Witches has become the default title of Peter Curtis’s 1960 occult novel, due to the 1966 Hammer adaptation. It was originally The Devil’s Own, however, and later became The Little Wax Doll, published under the author’s real name of Norah Lofts. This latest ...

At the end of the 1960s, the world’s reigning horror queen, Barbara Steele, announced her retirement from the screen. Thankfully, the green-eyed, raven-haired beauty returned to the horror genre in the mid-70s, but before she did, she spoke at length to ...

David L Rattigan dissects a sequence from And Soon the Darkness, the 1970 thriller directed by Robert Fuest, who died on March 21, 2012 Two holidaying English nurses are cycling through the French countryside, via long stretches of road, with ...

Today, Christopher Lee is recognized as an actor of exceptional range and talent, and despite his rare appearances recently in horror and fantasy films, it is indicative of the man’s immense popularity that his fans have remained loyal to him. ...

It seems appropriate that Fatal Pictures have done such justice to the body-horror genre, a sphere of filmmaking so closely associated with their fellow Canadian and Torontonian David Cronenberg. Familiar begins as an American Beauty-style satire of middle-class North American life, ...

Hammer was always a mixed bag. You had the true classics like Dracula (1958) and The Devil Rides Out (1968). At the bottom were duds like The Terror of the Tongs (1961), Maniac (1963) and The Scars of Dracula (1970). Somewhere in the middle were the competent but perhaps-unremarkable films, such as The ...

Hammer lovers have never had it so good. The last few years have seen a surge of Hammer films released on DVD on both sides of the Atlantic, including such sought-after favourites as Cash on Demand, The Gorgon and Vampire ...

“The last thing my father was was a snob. He understood that popular culture was an incredibly powerful force. He had fun.” — Victoria Price (Riverfront Times, May 19, 2011) Vincent Price was a pop culture icon. He made a ...