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The Skull *** (1965, Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 3104

Director Freddie Francis’s 1965 Amicus horror thriller stars Peter Cushing as a professor who wants to acquire the Marquis de Sade’s skull from an eccentric dealer (Patrick Wymark). Christopher Lee also stars as Cushing’s antiquarian […]

Nov, 28

Torture Garden *** (1967, Burgess Meredith, Peter Cushing, Beverly Adams, Jack Palance, Michael Bryant, John Standing) – Classic Movie Review 3097

Director Freddie Francis’s 1967 Amicus chiller is the first of Robert (Psycho) Bloch’s three compendium films of four horror tales. It stars Burgess Meredith, Peter Cushing, Beverly Adams, Jack Palance, Michael Bryant and John Standing. It […]

Nov, 25

And Now the Screaming Starts! *** (1973, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 3095

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1973 British chiller is a bizarre, gruesome and handsome-looking Amicus horror tale about a family curse in which a disembodied hand comes through a picture on a wall and avenges the […]

Nov, 25

Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

The Beast Must Die [Black Werewolf] *** (1974, Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Tom Chadbon, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 3092

‘One of our guests is a werewolf, I know it.’ – Tom Newcliffe. Director Paul Annett’s 1974 reasonably enjoyable British werewolf B-movie thriller for producer Milton Subotsky’s Amicus studio is a tough and quite effective […]

Nov, 25

The Creeping Flesh *** (1973, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron) – Classic Movie Review 3080

Director Freddie Francis’s 1972 British film for Tigon is a creaky but effective Victorian-age horror movie, with the perfect team for this sort of thing – Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as Victorian sibling rivals. […]

Nov, 23

Sword of Sherwood Forest *** (1960 Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Nigel Green, Richard Pasco) – Classic Movie Review 2957

Director Terence Fisher’s enjoyable 1960 TV adventure spinoff finds the Hammer Films studio temporarily abandoning horror films and bringing in Richard Greene, the star of Fifties TV’s long-running The Adventures of Robin Hood, to re-create his […]

Oct, 05

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