Ivan Aksenchuk's The Little Mermaid (1968) is a typically gorgeous Russian animated take on the Hans Christian Andersen story that retains some of the darker elements of the story. A very far cry from Disney's version(s). eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

For Your Eyes Only (1981) is an improvement on Moonraker (1979) - almost anything would be - and is mostly pretty good. But there are a couple of scenes that completely ruin it and the series was going to struggle to find its feet for several more years. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/f...

Ben Leonberg's Good Boy (2025) may have been divisive but at heart it's a moving tale of a dog's undying love for his human as he battles eerie supernatural forces that only he can see in the family home in the woods. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/g...

Temple Wood: A Quest for Freedom (2012) is a very muddled amateurish "folk horror" piece about madness and pagan deities in the Scottish Highlands. It could have been great but... it isn't. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/t...

Joseph Losey's The Damned (1961) is an atypical 60s hammer film, a bleak look at small seaside town life, nuclear paranoia and the willingness of the establishment to exploit even the youngest of victims. Still worryingly relevant in so many ways. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/t...

Highlander II: The Quickening (1990) is a contender for the title worst sequel of all time, a film that completely re-writes everything we thought we knew from the first film. Just terrible... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/h...

Fire Maidens from Outer Space (1956) is a terrible film by any metric, but there's something strangely endearing about its awfulness. Seriously - it has... "something", though what that is may be hard to determine. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/f...

The stop-motion animated adventures of Bagpuss (1974), "an old, saggy cloth cat" and his animal friends have been charming British television viewers for decades and it shows no sign of its popularity abating one bit. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/b...

This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are at the seaside in our black leather for some atomic sci-fi action with 1963's THE DAMNED 👦🏼👧🏼 OUT NOW

Moonraker (1979) was a box office smash, but its wild self-indulgences, puerile humour and endless in-jokes are wearying. After this things would get scaled back a bit as, frankly, there was nowhere left or the Bond series to go. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/m...

Boris Karloff is in full mad scientist mode in The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936), trying to transplant chimpanzees' minds to other bodies. And it's really rather good fun. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/t...

The Gamma People (1956) is an odd little science fiction film with Leslie Phillips and Paul Douglas as odd couple journalists uncovering a plot to produce child geniuses using gamma rays that goes as well as you might expect. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/t...

Lord of Misrule (2023) is another nasty-goings-on-in-small-a-village "folk horror", competently made, well acted by an interesting cast and with a good score but far too derivative for its own good. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/l...

Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel (1998) is a disappointing adaptation of William Gibson's short story of the same name, but it has a few charms of its own. Not enough, but no Ferrara film is a complete dead loss. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/n...

John Hough's The Watcher in the Woods (1981) is a deeply compromised Disney live-action film that baffles more than it entertains. Bette Davis is good value but the rest of the cast less so and that rethought ending is just nonsense. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/t...

The latest Hammer Time episodes finds me and Becky off to a night at the opera accompanied by the Phantom. Listen here or at your podcast outlet of choice. share.google/8QnCrXv5eVXL...

Marine Boy (1966) is a fondly remembered Japanese animated television series about a teenaged boy and his battles against Bondian supervillains trying to take over the underwater world of the future. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/m...

Now this was more like it! The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is easily the best of the Roger Moore Bond films - absurd, action-packed and plain more entertaining than both of his previous outings put together. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/t...

Jack Smight's Damnation Alley (1977) is a disappointing adaptation of the novel by Roger Zelazny, with flavourless leads, a lot of wandering about its post-apocalyptic landscapes and lousy special effects. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/d...

A problematic childhood hero gets a time travel twist in the terrible Biggles (1985) which has some good action scenes and Peter Cushing's last big screen appearance but little else to commend it. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/b...

Possibly In Michigan (1983) is a seriously strange short film that sees two young women stalked by a sinister man in a horrible mask only for them to turn the table sin unexpected fashion. Very strange but also very watchable. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/p...

Midnight Menace (1937) is an innocuous but vaguely prescient pre-war British science fiction film that imagines London coming under attack from drone aircraft unleashed by an international conspiracy. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/m...

It's HAMMER TIME! This week Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are smuggling with pirates and feeling ALL the feels while we do it 🏴‍☠️🥲 You can listen to our chat about CAPTAIN CLEGG (1962) now wherever you get your podcasts

We're tangling with Captain Clegg and his marsh phantoms in this week's Hammer Time. Available here (share.google/tn4qRxYSRouS...) and in all the usual podcast places!

Wes Craven's notoriously up-and-down career hit a new low with awful sequel The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985) - the one that features a flashback to the first film from the dog's perspective. Yes, that one... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/t...

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972) is a disastrously bad television special featuring many of the Looney Tunes characters that has to be endured to be believed. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/p...

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) was another disappointing outing for Roger Moore as James Bond, despite a terrific performance by Christopher Lee as the eponymous assassin. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/t...

@bunnydarke.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social, Powerhouse Films have got a buy three get 20% deal on Blu-ray’s at the moment, including lots of Hammer (which are already quite cheap). I think it’s worth sharing! Here’s my recent order. www.powerhousefilms.co.uk

Object Z (1965) is a terrific British science fiction television series, recently released on blu-ray. Ostensibly aimed at children, it's a more mature and serious 6-parter than you might expect, full of twists and turns, all spoiled here so be careful! eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/o...

Mike Newell's lead footed The Awakening (1980) is a good looking but dreary adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars. Hammer's Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) did it so much better. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/t...

More Tigon SF in an underwhelming 1972 big screen spin-off from the much better TV series Doomwatch. A good cast but it all feels very stretched out and implausible. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/d...

The Body Stealers (1969) is a very silly science fiction film from Tony Tenser's Tigon about aliens abducting humans from thin air to help repopulate their home world. When he's not too busy chasing skirt, Patrick Allen tries to stop them. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/t...

Join Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I on HAMMER TIME this week for our chat about the superb twisty turny thriller TASTE OF FEAR. Come for the insightful observations, stay for the hot takes, queer readings, and my continuing fetishisation of being carried around by a strong chauffeur. OUT NOW 🎧

This week on Hammer Time, Becky (@bunnydarke.bsky.social) and I take a look at the first of Hammer's psychological horrors, the wonderful A Taste of Fear. Listen here or at all the usual podcast outlets. share.google/VBPnNur0ASso...

In Montgomery Tully's Battle Beneath the Earth (1967), Chinese forces attempt to destroy the USA by tunnelling under their major cities and planting nuclear bombs. And yes, it really is that dumb... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/b...

Prime Rose: A Time Slip of 10,000 Years (1983) is a tonally weird science fiction/fantasy romp from the mind of anime master Osamu Tezuka which is, at times, charming, innocent fun and at others... rather unsavoury. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/p...

Live and Let Die (1973) introduced a new James Bond I the shape of Roger Moore, but it was an inauspicious debut, a rather humdrum adventure that turns Bond into an international narcotics agent. Great theme tune though. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/l...

Hajime Satô's House of Terrors (1965) is a terrific Gothic, heavily inspired by The Haunting (1963) and contemporary Italian horror films but still unmistakenly Japanese. Hard to find for years, it's emerged as something of a lost gem. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/h...

Robert Fuest's The Final Programme (1973) is a disappointing adaptation of the Michael Moorcock novel by a writer/director who didn't really understand what the book was about. Jon Finch and Jenny Runacre are very good in the lead roles though. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/t...

Rod Hardy's television film, Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD (1998), stars David Hasselhoff as a bland an unimpressive secret agent. It would take a full decade to get Fury on screen again, in the more impressive shape of Samuel L. Jackson. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/n...

In this week's Hammer Time, me and Becky spend some time in The Shadow of the Cat. Available on all the major podcast platforms and at the Evolution of Horror website - share.google/dwDOv9fliEnD3I…

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) is an offbeat mix of SF and documentary as only Werner Herzog could make, a fascinating warning about the fate of the planet from Brad Dourif who may, or may not, be playing an alien. It's that kind of film... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/t...

All distractions are out of the way now so let's do a few reviews before something else turns up. Shame that the "comeback" is the entirely dreadful science fiction spoof Zeta One (1969) but you can't have everything... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/z...

This week on HAMMER TIME we're in Spain under a full moon with Oliver Reed (aka my dream come true) as @eofftv.bsky.social and I discuss THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961) 🌝🐺 Listen now were-ever you get your podcasts!

We're looking at a Hammer classic this week. Terence Fisher directs, Anthony Hinds writes (as John Elder) and Oliver Reed stars in The Curse of the Werewolf. Available here and in all the usual podcast outlets. www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

Just settling into the most recent episode of the wonderful Hammer Time, after watching ‘The Curse of the Werewolf’ (starring the fabulous Oliver Reed) last night. My hot take: Fantastic dark fairy tale film, functional werewolf film. @bunnydarke.bsky.social @eofftv.bsky.social

In the latest episode of HAMMER TIME, Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I split our personalities in half with THE TWO FACES OF DR JEKYLL (1960). What a *nasty* little film! 👬🏻

Back after our Christmas break and this week Hammer Time takes a look at The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll. Available at all the usual podcast outlets and at share.google/rcydsgMW92KJ...

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) saw the temporary return to Bondage of Sean Connery and it established, for good or ill, a template from which so many of the 70s Bond films would be cast. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/d...

We're scraping the bottom of the barrel (again) today with a look at U.F.O. (1993), a painfully unfunny vehicle for odious "politically incorrect" comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown. Awful beyond belief. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/u...