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...

Jack Cardiff's The Mutations (1974) is a silly, sleazy SF/horror hybrid with Donald Pleasence trying out a daft accent, a heavily made-up Tom Baker in a floppy hat, some nudity and real-life sideshow performers. And it still manages to be very dull... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/t...

A German invasion in 1940 sends Britain down a very different course in It Happened Here (1965), a rough and ready but fascinating "alternate history" whose directors were teenage boys when they started their eight-year long production. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/i...

Alexander Mackendrick's The Man in the White Suit (1951) is a terrific science fiction satire from Ealing about the invention of an indestructible fabric and the effects it has on a small northern town. Alec Guinness is excellent in the title role. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/t...

Given the people involved in it, The Satan Bug (1965) really should have been a better film. The tale of a stolen bioweapon that threaten all life on Earth, it's surprisingly stodgy and lacking in excitement. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/t...

The last straw may have been added to this Christmas' review burden in the shape of yet another seasonal horror anthology, the truly dismal The Fright Before Christmas (2022) - and this thing actually got a sequel! eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/t...

A few questions are asked and hopefully answered in this week's episode. Sorry if we didn't get round to yours - we will eventually! share.google/5ylfmCAf6vSr...

Unholy Night (2019) is a ragged Canadian seasonal horror anthology film but one not without its charms. And this one really does have a killer elf in it so it certainly has that going for it! eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/u...

And here's another one. Despite the title, The Elf (2017) is actually about a killer doll and if anything it's even more hopeless than He Knows - hard to believe, but it's horribly true... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/t...

He Knows (2022) is the first of two Christmas horror films we're looking at this year about killer elves - except neither of them are. This one is a dreary slasher about a masked killer styling himself Sammy the Elf... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/h...

In It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984), Mickey Rooney is brought back from the dead to find an angel gone walkabout in New York and ends up shouting at everyone he meets in a very un-Christmassy way. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/i...

Demonic Christmas Tree (2022), aka The Killing Tree, a cheap tale of a serial killer reborn as a Christmas tree. Yep, it really is that daft... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/d...

The Cricket on the Hearth (1967) is a lacklustre Dickens adaptation from those perennial Christmas special merchants Rankin/Bass. Worth hearing for Roddy McDowell's "gor blimey guv'nor" accent but little else. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/t...

A Timeless Christmas (2020) is a largely standard issue Hallmark Christmas film with an added time travel twist. Imagine a sort of Somewhere in Time (1980) in reverse and you’re getting there. It's still not any good though... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/a...

Edwin S. Porter's The Night Before Christmas (1905) was the first adaptation of the beloved poem and is... just what it is really. Santa is sort of interesting here, a bit ruthless perhaps, and at just 9 minutes it's an affable time filler. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/t...

HAMMER TIME has hit the 1960s! This week Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I chat about THE BRIDES OF DRACULA and it's a good'un! 🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻‍♀️ Sink your teeth in now wherever you get your podcasts

Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? (1990) is a cross between It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Starman (1984) with Richard Mulligan as a small-town eccentric meeting alien visitor Beau Bridges. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/g...

It wouldn’t be Christmas without at least one version of A Christmas Carol and here's the 2004 musical version starring Kelsey Grammer. And no, it's not good... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/a...

Cute robots battle their evil counterparts while Steven Seagal's daughter turns up as Santa Claus (I'm not making this up I swear) in the thoroughly bewildering TV series spin-off B-Robo Kabutack: The Epic Christmas Battle!! (1997). eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/b...

A Mouse, a Mystery and Me (1987) is an odd one, a mediocre live action/animation hybrid TV special about a mystery novel writing mouse and a kidnapped department store Santa. All but forgotten today and with good reason. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/a...

It's HAMMER TIME time once again! This week Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I discuss 1959's THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH. It's not the best 😅😬 but it does have some interesting stuff and it looks incredible 🧪 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts

The ever-popular overweight orange cat brings his trademark cynicism to the season in A Garfield Christmas Special (1987), a reasonably engaging half hour that underpins its jokes with a commendable streak of sadness. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/a...

Why Hide? (2018) is perhaps better known under the title Christmas Presence. By any name it's a dull one, full of annoying characters trapped in an old mansion while something never full explained picks them off during a Christmas get-together. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/w...

The Christmas Dragon (2014) doesn’t feature much dragon action and Christmas keeps getting lost along the way as well. Instead it's a rather dull fantasy quest featuring children trying to save Father Christmas in a fantasy world - or something... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/t...

The Muppets have a Christmas party in A Muppet Family Christmas (1987). It's very far from the best of the Muppets Christmas offerings but it still has bags of charm, some decent gags and the largest gathering of Muppets ever caught on camera. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/a...

The Mean One (2022) adds the Grinch (never actually referred to as such) to the recent trend for childhood literary characters being forced into gory horror scenarios. And it's bloody awful in almost every respect... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/t...

This week on HAMMER TIME we open up Princess Ananka's tomb and face THE MUMMY (1959). Join Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and me as we chat about another Christopher Lee monster movie, and potentially have our first podcast parting of ways, opinion-wise 😬😅 Listen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

I should have posted these a few weeks ago as I'd promised @bunnydarke.bsky.social I'd find them - cast your mind back to the Hammer Time podcast on Dracula and I mentioned behind the scenes shots of Carol Marsh enjoying tea and biscuits on the set. Well, here they are - better late than never!

Star in the Night (1945) was an inauspicious debut for director Don Siegel, a short film retelling the story of the nativity in 1940s America. He was a very long way from Dirty Harry (1971)... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/s...

It's December so that must mean Christmas film reviews, and we start with the execrable seasonal superhero "comedy" Elf-Man (2012). I've a feeling this is going to be a very long three weeks... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/e...

This week on the podcast, Hammer takes on Arthur Conan Doyle and the result is a magnificent adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles! share.google/teh44UblmSGs...

Toomorrow (1970) is very far from Val Guest's best work, an abysmal tale of a bland pop group (a pre-fame Olivia Newton-John is the lead singer) being abducted by aliens for reasons too ludicrous to go into here. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...

Saul Bass' Phase IV (1974) is a deeply flawed (thanks to studio interfering) but fascinating addition to the "nature in revolt" films of the 70s, pitching ants against a trio of people stuck in a desert research base. But what are the ants really up to? eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/p...

Frankenstein's back in The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), Hammer's first Gothic sequel, calling himself Dr Stein but still up his old monster making tricks. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/t...

Soy leyenda (1967) is an unexpectedly good student adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend that manages to hit most of the beats of the book in 36 sometimes rough and ready but always atmospheric minutes. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/s...

Mountaineers are being killed by something alien in Quentin Lawrence's The Trollenberg Terror (1958), that "something" being revealed as large eye-like creatures that are up to no good though exactly why, we never do learn... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/t...

For this week's episode of HAMMER TIME, Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are back with Peter Cushing's Dr Franck or Stein (spoilers: it's Frankenstein) in 1958's THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN 🧠 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts 🎧

Kunio Kato isn't the best known of Japanese animators but on the basis of his two most widely seen shorts, The Diary of Tortov Roddle (2003) and the Oscar winning The House of Small Cubes (2008), he should be. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/t...

George Lazenby takes over the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) for the first and only time but ends up in arguably the greatest Bond of them all. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/o...

Highlander (1986) is an overblown and sometimes pompous fantasy film about immortal warriors battling through time but it's a fun one, dazzlingly directed by Russell Mulcahey. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/h...

Derek Jarman gave the British punk scene it's first film with Jubilee (1978) featuring a time travelling Queen Elizabeth I visiting a dystopian near future London. The punks were outraged and promptly threw it straight back at Jarman... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/j...

As this week's Hammer Time is all about Dracula (1958) now is as good a time as any perhaps to revisit my old review of it... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2021/02/01/d...

Q Planes (1939) is a terrific action thriller with a great cast (Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, Laurence Olivier) and a science fiction MacGuffin in the shape of a ray gun that disables aircraft engines. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/q...

A Sound of Thunder (1973) is an amateur short film from the future director of The Crater Lake Monster (1977) but don't hold that against it - it's rough and ready but worth it for a few seconds of Phil Tippett dinosaur animation. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/a...

This week, Becky and I very loudly sing the praises of one of Hammer’s very best. share.google/4NKTgMu1aXg6...

The Ape Man (1943) wasn't the lowest that Bela Lugosi's career was going to fall, but it was a far cry from his glory days at Universal. And a sad spectacle it is too in so many ways... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/t...

The Mouse and His Child (1977) is an odd 70s animation that can’t seem to make its mind up if it wants to be a cutesy kids film or a philosophical tale for adults about identity, self determination and the infinite... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/t...

You Only Live Twice (1967) is another mixed bag for Bond - it's huge, the set pieces are unforgettable and the sets and photography stunning. But a fed-up leading man and a serious bit of poor casting tend to count against it. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/y...

The Beast of Borneo (1934) is a dreary jungle adventure film with only the thinnest veneer of the fantastic, in its scientists looking for the evolutionary link between ape and Man. It did have an extraordinary ad campaign though... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/t...