We're back! But not, sadly, with anything good. How low are we going to rate this one do you reckon? Listen here (share.google/c7HbIC8hz6aP...) and at all the usual outlets. At least we're more entertaining than the film...

Things to Come (1936) is undoubtedly a landmark of British cinema and science fiction on the big screen, but it can be a bit worthy and, dare we say it... dull. It looks magnificent of course, but the constant lecturing gets a bit wearying. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/t...

UFOleul tagoon oegyein wangja (1984) is an extraordinarily derivative Korean animation that features a race of aliens lifted straight from Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-terrestrial (1982) and music cues from Dario Argento... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/u...

Dalton's out, Brosnan's in and the Bond series gets a fresh lease of life in Martin Campbell's GoldenEye (1995) in which Bond is successfully dragged into the post-perestroika 90s. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/g...

Midnight Offerings (1981) is an above average made for television horror about rival teen witches facing off at high school in what amounts to a war between Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons. Read the review, it'll make sense, sort of... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/m...

John Boorman's Zardoz (1974) (yes, the one with Sean Connery in a nappy) is alternately baffling and beautiful, pretentious and hilarious. It might have meant something to Boorman but good luck working out what that meaning is. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/z...

Endgame (1983) is Joe D'Amato's second and final post-apocalyptic thriller, an improvement on 2020 Texas Gladiators (1983) and lot of derivative and silly fun. And George Eastman's in it and on top form so that's a plus. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/e...

Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion's Bushwick (2017) is an intriguing near-future thriller about the eponymous New York neighbourhood being overrun by armed militia and the locals fighting back. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/b...

Massacre at Central High (1976) is an exploitation film with a brain, mixing high school horror, 70s vigilante movies and political satire in a thoughtful and often fascinating mix. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/m...

Joseph Lai didn’t just repackage live action films as ninja epics - he did the same for animated films too. Space Transformer (1990) is actually a South Korean "pseudo anime" that also tries to remake Fantastic Voyage (1966) along the way... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/s...

After the relaunch of the Bond series with The Living Daylights (1987), Licence to Kill (1989) was a disappointment, a brutal almost sadistic action thriller that feels very far removed from what had gone before. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/l...

Greydon Clark's Satan's Cheerleaders (1977) has a degree of charm, but tonally it's all over the shop - part 70s cheerleader comedy, part Satanic horror with very little nudity and no gore. It's a mess, frankly. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/s...

Child's Play (1952) is a charming little comedy about a bunch of posh British kids who find a way to split the atom and the inevitable, but amusing chaos, ensues. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/c...

After Starsky & Hutch, it's time for "fish out of water" small town cop in New York McCloud to deal with vampires in the Big Apple. There's a horror film actor on hand played by John Carradine so it's not hard to work out who might have dunnit... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/m...

This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are battling the Ancients alongside some Hammer horror greats - Christopher Lee! Peter Cushing! Barbara Shelley! - in Terence Fisher's THE GORGON from 1964 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🪨 OUT NOW

We're off to Mars to keep Matt Damon company as The Martian (2015). Ignore the wonky science and enjoy Damon's likable performance, a good deal of suspense and some glorious location work. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/t...

Night of the Big Heat (1967) isn't as much fun as Terence Fisher's other island-based science fiction/horror Island of Terror (1966), but it has a great cast and is nicely atmospheric. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/n...

This week on Hammer Time, @bunnydarke.bsky.social and I take a look at The Evil of Frankenstein. And we're not terribly impressed by what we see... Listen here or wherever you get you podcasts: share.google/ozbRnVltaisx...

Badlands 2005: The Brides of Lizard Gulch (1998) was a pilot for a proposed Mad Max-style adventure series starring Lewis Smith, Miguel Ferrer and Sharon Stone. It made it to one episode and went no further, which is no great surprise... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/b...

A new Bond (Timothy Dalton) promises much that The Living Daylights (1987) mostly delivers. Less silly than the latter-day Roger Moore's, this bond is tougher, more like Ian Fleming's version and the film is all the better for it. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/t...

ICYMI the latest episode of HAMMER TIME has me and Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) battling bad dreams as we chat about the paranoid thrilled NIGHTMARE from 1964 💤😰

It's Hammer Time and this week Becky and I are having Nightmares. As always, available in the usual places and here: share.google/3QZi0I8UkT6s...

Who Done It? (1956) is a late Ealing comedy starring Benny Hill as a delusional private eye battling East European Uralians who are trying to steal a weather control machine. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/w...

It's All about Love (2002) is an odd science fiction film about ice skating, corporate greed and cloning from Thomas Vinterberg, co-founder, with Lars von Trier, of the Dogme 95 movement. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/i...

70s cops Starsky and Hutch take on the undead - or do they? - in the indecisive but fun episode The Vampire. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/s...

Badly compromised post-production, Donald Cammell's Demon Seed (1977) is a disappointing and illogical adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel. Julie Christie comes close to saving it though. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/d...

This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are back in France to tackle homicidal lunatics, love triangles and questionable plot points in another of Hammer's 60s thrillers: MANIAC (1963)

More weirdness from the Play for Today strand with Jumping Bean Bag (1976), a hallucinatory and cautionary tale of teenage rock wannabes, social commentary, and glam/prog songs. Make of that what you will... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/p...

Mr Benn (1971-1972) is another cherished childhood memory, the charming tales of an ordinary City gent and his travels to strange lands through a door in a fancy dress shop. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/m...

James Bond was back scraping the bottom of the barrel again in the dismal A View to a Kill (1985), one of the most boring films in the series. It was Roger Moore's last and things would get, temporarily better, with the next entry. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/07/a...

The Boogey Man (1980) is probably Ulli Lommel's best American film (though that's not saying much), a derivative but fun supernatural chiller full of gimmicky killings and a decent conceit about a haunted mirror. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/t...

Colm McCarthy's The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) is an absolute gem, an intelligent and thought-provoking zombie film that takes the stale and tired genre into new and more interesting territory. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/t...

Dennis O'Keefe and Montgomery Tully's The Diamond (1954) is two-fisted tale of an American detective in London teaming up with his British counterpart to track down the makers of artificial diamonds. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/t...

London is Drowning (1981) is a terribly earnest but not uninteresting Play for Today about various London characters facing the threat of an imminent flood from a huge storm surge. Cheap, sometimes preachy, but still quite fascinating. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/p...

This week on HAMMER TIME we have a serious case of imposter syndrome, as Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I dive deep into the twisty, turny - and very creepy - psychological thriller PARANOIAC from 1963. Out now!

A bit of a rude one today - Rinse Dream/Stephen Sayadian's mad porn/science fiction surrealist performance art madness Café Flesh (1982), which is sadly nowhere near as interesting as it might seem. In fact, it's a bit dull... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...

Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (1987) is an underwhelming short Japanese animation about that most ubiquitous of anime themes, giant machines hitting each other. If that's your thing, you might enjoy this nicely designed vignette. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/m...

After a return to the relatively serious, the Bond franchise gets silly again with Octopussy (1983), a film you can easily forget even while you're watching it. It's going to get worse, but an improvement is on the horizon. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/o...

Walter Hill's brilliant Southern Comfort (1981) is a horror film and we'll brook no argument about that here - a group of National Guardsmen are remorselessly hunted by angry Cajuns through the Louisiana swamp. How could that not be horror? eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/s...

And while we're here, let's look at the very different "sequel" Children of the Damned (1963), a very different beast but in some ways a more interesting film, in which the kids move into the city and their origins are given a fascinating twist. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/c...

Wolf Rilla's eerie Village of the Damned (1960) is a faithful adaptation of the John Wyndham novel The Midwich Cuckoos, a disturbing tale of alien children implanted in the women of a small English village. One of the greatest of all "creepy kids" films. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/v...

The Playbirds (1978) is one of the grimmest and most depressing British sex/horror films of the 1970s, a tawdry tale of a serial killer stalking glamour models in London's Soho with an ending that will leave you baffled. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/t...

It's Hammer Time! This week Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I join a bloodsucking cult as we discuss 1963's KISS OF THE VAMPIRE 🧛🏻‍♀️💋 Listen wherever you get your podcasts

Hammer Time's back in more familiar Gothic territory this week. Listen in to hear me make a fool of myself over Isobel Black. The things poor Becky has to put up with... Available in all the usual places including here: Hammer — The Evolution of Horror share.google/Fdd7PweycGKb...

Terence Fisher's non-Hammer SF/horror piece Island of Terror (1966) isn't a patch on his work at Bray but it's still a fun, old-fashioned monster film about body-sucking silicon- based creatures loose on a small island. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/i...

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...