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Showing posts with label Donald Pleasance. Show all posts
Friday, 5 May 2023

The Devil's Men (1976)

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 "I beliewve the Devil has taken possession of this village!" There was, around 1976-ish, a sudden craze for movies about robed de...
Saturday, 31 October 2020

Halloween (1978)

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 “You can't kill the Boogeyman!" At last I find a subtitled version. Hooray. It's about time. This is, as I kept saying about t...
Saturday, 15 February 2020

Dracula (1979)

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“Oh, I loved to be frightened..” This was the last of the famous Dracula films I’d seen and, while it doesn’t rival the recent BBC TV se...
Saturday, 23 November 2019

Phenomena (1985)

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“People call it the Swiss Transylvania...” This is, to my shame, the first film by Dario Argento that I’ve seen. This film isn’t perhaps...
Sunday, 30 June 2019

Circus of Horrors (1960)

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"Quick, get her to a doctor. And send the clowns in." This is a mildly obscure but well regarded non-Hammer horror film, one w...
Saturday, 15 September 2018

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

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"The antibodies will attack as if she were bacteria!" This is a very silly film, played incredibly straight and, what’s even w...
Thursday, 9 November 2017

The Great Escape (1963)

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"They are the common enemies of anyone who believes in freedom. If the high command didn’t believe in Hitler, why didn’t they throw him...
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Tuesday, 9 February 2016

You Only Live Twice (1967)

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"Well, at least he died on the job..." Well, it's quite the contrast. Thunderball was a pile of pants, an incoherently ...
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Saturday, 14 January 2012

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot, stamping on a human face, forever.” I should probably say at the start that ...