Becky and I are to Cornwall this week on Hammer Time for an absolute classic, The Plague of the Zombies. Listen here and in all the usual podcast outlets. share.google/QFWydRHViUMx...

From just before the start of Australian New Wave comes Beyond Reason (1970), a barely remarked upon nuclear attack drama from director Giorgio Mangiamele that never quite manages to pull off its considerable ambitions. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/b...

The Magic Roundabout (1965-1977) is another beloved childhood television memory, a surreal and often very witty reworking of the French show Le Manège enchanté with terrific semi-improvised scripts from Eric Thompson. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/t...

Quantum of Solace (2008) was a disappointing follow-up to Casino Royale (2006) with its frenetic editing and a script that was being re-written by the director and star due to a writer's strike. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/q...

What's this? A remake or infamous shockumentary Faces of Death in 2026? Well no, not quite - it's a meta horror about FoD, with much to commend it though it runs out of steam in a by-the-numbers bloodbath finale. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/f...

Roger Christian's directorial debut, the atmospheric fantasy Black Angel (1980), went out as support to Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back, making it arguably the most widely seen short film of all time. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/b...

Robert Hughes' Hunter's Blood (1986) is a shameless Deliverance (1972) clone and takes a good while to get going but starts to deliver in a fitfully gory final act. One for hicksploitation completists only really. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/h...

I had a blast chatting horror and comedy with @mikemuncer.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social and Susan Calman for the first @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social roundtable. Listen now on the HAMMER TIME podcast feed or watch us(!) on the EOH YouTube channel

The main podcast is on a week off (back next week with Andre Morell vs zombies) but we have this for your listening pleasure - the audio version of our chat about comedy horror. Hear it in all the usual places. share.google/Lec05vPydraE...

I was delighted to be invited by Hunter Robinson to talk about the epic western Once Upon a Time in the West for his podcast Tumbleweed and TV Cowboys. Something a bit different from me with this one. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/44YH... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

The Earth Dies Screaming (1964) is a fun aliens-robots-invading-Earth-using-zombies science fiction thriller from Terence Fisher. It goes a bi awry towards the end, but for the most part this is very entertaining. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/t...

As a kid, Gerry Anderson's Doppelgänger/Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969) was terribly exciting. But as an adult... It leaves much to be desired. A shame, as it still has a lot of good things going for it. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/d...

Until Deaf Crocodile released it on blu-ray in 2022, the Romanian psychedelic animated space opera Delta Space Mission (1984) was virtually an unknown quantity in the west. Now we can see if for the trippy little gem it is. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/24/d...

The Daniel Craig era of James Bond gets off to a cracking start with the excellent Casino Royale (2006). It'd get a bit patchy from here on, but as new beginnings go, this was unbeatable. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/c...

ICYMI the latest episode of HAMMER TIME sees Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and me chatting about the flawed but still pretty great DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS from 1966. OUT NOW! 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

From the menu for the new Hammer release of The Ugly Duckling, from their new Ships and Giggles box set. I think they might be trying to tell me something...

Joy Batchelor's Ruddigore (1966) is a disappointingly serviceable but uninspired animation based on the light comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. And if you don't like their work, you’re in for a very long 54 minutes... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/r...

Die Another Day (2002) was an ignominious way to end Pierce Brosnan's run as James Bond and a poor attempt at celebrating the franchise's fortieth anniversary. Things would get better, but this was just terrible. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/d...

Becky and I are diving into the mailbag to see what some of you have been saying about Hammer Time. As ever, available here (share.google/M6XNnypad74s...) and at all good podcast outlets. What passes for normal service will be resumed next week.

Roberta Findlay's A Woman's Torment (1977) is a strange but weirdly fascinating porn/horror hybrid that riffs on Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and boasts a peculiar central performance from Tara Chung. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/a...

A short(ish) review today of A Short Vision (1956), an brief but powerful British animated parable about the dangers of nuclear war and of sleepwalking into the end of the world. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/a...

The World is Not Enough (1999) was the last Bond film of the 20th century and although it's a notch or two down from the two earlier Pierce Brosnan films, it's still fun, thanks mainly to some extraordinary action scenes. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/t...

Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan (1991) is a brain-rottingly terrible amateur film about... well it's clear what it's about but it involves witches, voodoo, a Frankenstein-style monster and terrible rock band... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/h...

Becky and I are refusing to eat or sleep in case Bette Davis gets us as we look at one of Hammer's very best, the excellent Jimmy Sangster scripted/Seth Holt directed The Nanny (1965), As always, available here and wherever you get your podcasts. www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

Lawrence Huntingdon The Vulture (1966) is a very strong contender for the dubious title of worst British horror film of the 1960s, a laughable knock off of The Fly (1958) with very few - if any - redeeming features. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/t...

Gandahar (1987) was the third and final animated feature from French director René Laloux. It's not as good as his masterpiece Fantastic Planet (1973) but it's still a visual treat with a mind-bending time-travel plot. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/g...

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), directed by Roger Spottiswoode but the real honours go to second unit director Vic Armstrong, proved that GoldenEye (1995) was no fluke - Bond was back, bigger, noisier and more action packed than ever. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/t...

Leslie Stevens' Incubus (1966), famously shot in the artificial language Esperanto, is a fascinating little oddity, a precursor of "folk horror," with William Shatner encountering a pair of succubi in a remote coastal town. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/i...

The Shrouds (2024) may end up being David Cronenberg's last film, but it's a fine one to bow out on if that is the case, a typically cerebral meditation on death, obsession, grief and the effects of technology. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

Our newest episode of HAMMER TIME is all about the paranoid thriller film HYSTERIA from 1965. Not the best, but not the worst either! And Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I had a fun chat as ever. 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

The Tripods (1984-1985) is a cult favourite in some quarters, but as an adaptation of John Christopher's excellent novel trilogy, it disappoints. The fact that it was never completed being the biggest disappointment of them all. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/t...

Becky and I suffer memory loss and a bad case of Hysteria in this week's Hammer Time. Available here ( share.google/vcL621Zai5Kr...) and wherever you usually get your podcasts.

Brent Cousin's shot-on-video Slaughter Day (1991) is an amateur gorefest beset with all the usual bugbears of this sort of thing. It has energy and ambition, but talent is in notably short supply. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/s...

Gonks Go Beat (1965) was an unusual one from director Robert Hartford-Davis, a silly and instantly dated pop musical fantasy starring Kenneth Connor as an alien sent to Earth to sort out the warring kids from Beatland and Ballad Isle. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/g...

TIL (via the great @eofftv.bsky.social) that Basil Rathbone and Dennis Hopper were once in the same film: eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2021/07/03/q...

It's not on the main website yet (it will be soon I'm sure) but the latest Hammer Time, in which @bunnydarke.bsky.social and I look approvingly at the psycho-thriller Fanatic (1965), is out in the usual podcast places - here it is on Spotify for example. open.spotify.com/episode/5C2h...

I should be on BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday Show in a while, at around 11:50, talking about mummy movies. You can hear it online from anywhere in the UK if you fancy hearing me trying not to make a complete tit of myself on live radio... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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...