@eofftv.bsky.social got me back on my Nigel Kneale obsession with the Hammer time pod, and recommended the TV show Beasts. Cex came to the rescue! And only cost me £12! It’s gonna get weird.

Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are back in sync this week on Hammer Time as we discuss THE MUMMY'S SHROUD and both agree it's pretty good actually! OUT NOW! 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

We're going back to Egypt on Hammer Time this week (don't worry, it's better than our last trip there...) as we, to quote the posters, "beware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet!" with The Mummy's Shroud (1967). Listen at all good podcast outlets and here: www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

Me and Becky are back with the Baron in this week's Hammer Time. Will we find more common ground this time? Maybe... maybe not... Available where you get all your podcasts and here: www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

It took three directors to bring Space Mutiny (1988) to the screen and none of them had any idea how to do anything with it. Legendarily awful, it's littered with continuity errors, odd filming locations and stock shots from Battlestar Galactica... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/s...

Today we're paying our first visit to the very strange world of animator Bill Plympton with a look at his surreal, trippy and constantly imaginative debut feature, The Tune (1992). It won’t be our last visit. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/t...

With No Time to Die (2021), the James Bond franchise as we knew it came to a divisive end (it's a lot better than some would have you believe) before it transferred over to Amazon. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/n...

This week on HAMMER TIME, Becky and Kev discuss Joan Fontaine, folk horror, virgin sacrifices and nearly come to blows over the Nigel Kneale-penned THE WITCHES (1966)! OUT NOW

Heavy metal horror films are mostly awful but Heavy Metal Massacre (1989), a vanity project from a former wrestler with dreadful music and far too many cheap video effects, really plumbs the depths. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/h...

From industrial art collective Survival Research Laboratories comes the bleak but fascinating short A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief (1988) in which robotic creatures do appalling things to each other for 13 minutes. And it's better than that sounds... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/a...

No new review today (it's been a busy one and I'll try to catch up tomorrow) but given the weather in the UK today, revisiting this old favourite seems an appropriate alternative... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/t...

Night of Horror (1981), remade a year later as the mildly less wretched The Curse of the Screaming Dead, is one of the worst horror films ever shot, a technically incompetent and almost unfathomable fiasco. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/n...

An "adult" movie take on Michael Crichton's Westworld (1973)? Well, that's more or less what SexWorld (1977) is. And it's surprisingly stylish thanks to inventive direction by Anthony Spinelli. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/s...

Christopher Smith's Triangle (2009) is an impressive, twisty thriller set aboard an abandoned ocean liner where Jess, played by Melissa George, is trapped in a time loop - and she may have been there for a very long time... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/t...

Captain of Cosmos (1979) is another sub-standard Korean animation given a hilariously awful English dub by Joseph Lai's Adda Audio Visual Ltd company and foisted off on an unsuspecting western audience. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/c...

Daniel Craig's penultimate outing as James Bond, Spectre (2015), has much to enjoy but is let down by a script that makes some very odd decisions. The set pieces and (most of) the cast are great though.   eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/s...

This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev and Becky are up against another of Hammer's iconic female monsters, as they shed their skins and smash their sitars for a chat about THE REPTILE from 1966. Out now!

Becky and I are on our Hammer travels again, this time returning to Cornwall and shedding our skins along the way, just like the star of The Reptile (1966). I'm sure you know where to find us by now...

One for @eofftv.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social ? Peter Cushing’s slippers. THOSE slippers.

After hearing @bunnydarke.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social talk about this on Hammertime pod mailbag episode, I just knew I had to pay a visit. 😊

Mother Russia is calling in this week's Hammer Time as Becky and I look at Rasputin the Mad Monk, sing the praises of Christopher Lee and Barbara Shelley, talk about heavy metal and yes, of course we quote Boney M. Available in all the usual places. www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

Ivo Caprino's The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975) is a wonderfully charming stop-motion tale of motor racing in a small mountain town that has understandably become a national treasure in its native Norway. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/t...

Skyfall (2012) saw the Bond series getting back on track after the disappointing Quantum of Solace (2008), with more stakes for Bond and M more personal than ever. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/s...

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...