Ed's comment about the robot car made me chuckle and as it's Mother's Day here in the UK it reminded me of two other faces. Thi...

 A recent camping trip saw us visiting the derelict Magpie lead Mine near Monyash in the Peak District. The site of the local Magpie mine mu...

1965's Dr. Terrors House of Horrors; what a film!   Possibly only pipped to the post by Tales from the Crypt, Dr.Terrors has it all: gre...

 I caught The Ghoul the other night. Made by Tyburn [not to be confused with the much more successful Tigon] it was one of only three films ...

 I caught the Vault of Horror the other sleepless night. Another Amicus anthology and possibly less well known than Tales from the Crypt. Th...

With my circadian clock clogged with up snot I'm not sleeping when I should. Hence I was up late last night nursing my cold, drinking mo...

Hi Woodsy There just does not seem to be anything around in the way of Hound of the Baskervilles toys - not a Hellhound in sight. The only t...

  This was a neat birthday gift from the Missus this Christmas just gone. Right up my cobwebbed alley, it's a 1965 Americom cinefilm ree...

Last week Sixties and Seventies film icon Raquel Welch sadly passed away.  I remember Miss. Welch largely from the black and white movie pos...

 Aware that not everyone has had a good Christmas, not by a long chalk - with illness, COVID, leaks and terrible snow storms - I just want t...

I've mentioned this before but hammers were a big part of my childhood. No doubt they were for many kids. My older Sisters tell...

Its Beltane and its still Walpurgis Nacht so here's a great BFI article about two of my fave Hammer horrors, Dracula Prince of Darkness,...

I've been trying to work out if this shot of Peter Cushing - see link below - is in the same set as the sunken garden seen in the Hamme...

Woodsy How's this for a double feature?  Terranova47 NYC USA

Currently off with a chest infection and part of my prescription are Hammers. Hammer Horrors to be exact. I've seen two in the last ...