My God, that sounds terrible! I bet you don't go back to this one that often given that memory!
I think you're going to enjoy next week's Nightmare more - it's a definite step up!
Thanks Gareth! We were going to run into a lesser film eventually and we've had a pretty good run so far. Still a bit dull though...
This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are back in France to tackle homicidal lunatics, love triangles and questionable plot points in another of Hammer's 60s thrillers: MANIAC (1963)
I know what you mean! The amount of crap I watch, it's sheer bloody mindedness that gets me through them some days!
Women? Wearing trousers?! The very thought of it! 😂 You're a brave man watching it before a nap - I struggle staying awake through most of it these days!
No arguments from me with any of that!
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A few people have asked about this and Terror of the Tongs. I wish we had done them now but they were a bit borderline. Maybe we can come to them in a special episode at the end. Mind you we added a few more borderline titles this week and we're not now due to finish until next January so who knows!
More weirdness from the Play for Today strand with Jumping Bean Bag (1976), a hallucinatory and cautionary tale of teenage rock wannabes, social commentary, and glam/prog songs. Make of that what you will...
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Mr Benn (1971-1972) is another cherished childhood memory, the charming tales of an ordinary City gent and his travels to strange lands through a door in a fancy dress shop.
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James Bond was back scraping the bottom of the barrel again in the dismal A View to a Kill (1985), one of the most boring films in the series. It was Roger Moore's last and things would get, temporarily better, with the next entry.
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I can certainly understand why. It's extraordinary.
The Boogey Man (1980) is probably Ulli Lommel's best American film (though that's not saying much), a derivative but fun supernatural chiller full of gimmicky killings and a decent conceit about a haunted mirror.
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Colm McCarthy's The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) is an absolute gem, an intelligent and thought-provoking zombie film that takes the stale and tired genre into new and more interesting territory.
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Dennis O'Keefe and Montgomery Tully's The Diamond (1954) is two-fisted tale of an American detective in London teaming up with his British counterpart to track down the makers of artificial diamonds.
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London is Drowning (1981) is a terribly earnest but not uninteresting Play for Today about various London characters facing the threat of an imminent flood from a huge storm surge. Cheap, sometimes preachy, but still quite fascinating.
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It's as good a barometer as any! And with so much out there now we all need guidance from time to time.
Oh, always best to give things a try and decide for yourself. You never know...!
Not quite as exciting as your last batch I'm afraid, but they're all worth watching (sort of!)
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Great stuff! Glad to be bringing these gems to your attention!
This week on HAMMER TIME we have a serious case of imposter syndrome, as Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I dive deep into the twisty, turny - and very creepy - psychological thriller PARANOIAC from 1963. Out now!
I can well believe that!
A bit of a rude one today - Rinse Dream/Stephen Sayadian's mad porn/science fiction surrealist performance art madness Café Flesh (1982), which is sadly nowhere near as interesting as it might seem. In fact, it's a bit dull...
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Ah, can you imagine that? Sid and Ken as Droogs, Charles as an astronaut, Babs as the voice of a saucy computer and Bernie riding a nuclear bomb to obliteration. What a missed opportunity!
I've got notes for a Wrong Turn review. I'll get round to that soon!
Oh yes, do! Any time is good for some Walter Hill!
Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (1987) is an underwhelming short Japanese animation about that most ubiquitous of anime themes, giant machines hitting each other. If that's your thing, you might enjoy this nicely designed vignette.
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After a return to the relatively serious, the Bond franchise gets silly again with Octopussy (1983), a film you can easily forget even while you're watching it. It's going to get worse, but an improvement is on the horizon.
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