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Showing posts with label Michael Ripper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Ripper. Show all posts
Friday, 3 December 2021

The Reptile (1966)

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 "They don't like strangers in these parts!" This may not exactly be Hammer's finest hour. It may, indeed, be a deeply for...
Sunday, 19 September 2021

The Creeping Flesh (1973)

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 "That is why I shall have to employ someone for whom eythics have no significance..." This is (SPOILERS, even if I remain vague) ...
Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Quatermass and the Pit: Episode 5- The Wild Hunt

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"We're the Martians now." It is both a complement and an observation on how television pacing has changed over the decades t...
Friday, 4 May 2018

Quatermass and the Pit: Episode 4- The Enchanted

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“You realise what you’re implying? That we owe our human condition to the intervention of insects?” And here we have it; the ideas episode...
Thursday, 3 May 2018

Quatermass and the Pit: Episode 3- Imps and Demons

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"It's a good thing to be insured. At least it cheers you up." After last episode’s slight wobble we’re back to the gripping ...
Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Quatermass and the Pit: Episode 2- The Ghosts

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"It was a kind of figure!" Once again Nigel Knee shows us, in an unusually slow episode that for once feels a little padded, tha...
Thursday, 26 April 2018

Quatermass and the Pit: Episode 1- The Halfmen

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"They'll stick me alongside the Piltdown forgeries as a horrid warning!" It's good to get back to Quatermass , that slow...
Thursday, 27 October 2016

Quatermass 2 (1957)

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"This is the food, and it burns..." I understand this is the first ever time a sequel was demarcated with the number "2...
Monday, 14 September 2015

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

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"I should have drowned you at birth!" "Thank you, father!" Interesting that this enjoyable Hammer romp is pre-Ge...