Custom DVD Cover: The Shining

Replacement for the dull and pretentious "door" cover for the special edition. Always find it worth remembering that while The Shining is technically superb it's still an eighties 18-cert horror and deserves garish cover art to match.

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Film Review - Very Bad Things

One of the last gasps of Christian Slater's major film career before assaulting his then-girlfriend made him toxic goods, this is one of his best performances and certainly towards the top end of the movies he's appeared in. Peter Berg's comedy is pitch black, of questionable taste and cruel to a degree that makes Lars von Trier look like a sentimental old duffer - i.e. it's a riot.

Film Review - The Scars of Dracula

The last of Hammer's period Dracula films before the ill-advised switch to the present day, Scars of Dracula makes some notable attempts to revitalise the series. Christopher Lee has his largest role to date and Dracula has a few 'new' abilities - the ability to scale walls like a spider being the best; this was in Bram Stoker's original novel but then largely ignored until suddenly appearing in two films in the same year - the other being Jesus Franco's straight adaptation of the book, also starring Lee in the title role.

Film Review - The Revenge of Frankenstein

The first of Hammer's long-running series of classic monster sequels and the first to be based on something of an original story after the success of The Curse of Frankenstein the year before. That film was a remake of Universal's 1931 Frankenstein but Revenge of... skips the idea of remaking that film's sequel, Bride of Frankenstein.

Film Review - The Quatermass Xperiment

In the current age of digital downloads and streaming, or even physical media like DVD and before that VHS it's basically impossible to imagine how TV worked in the fifties. Even if a show was recorded before or during broadcast the only time anyone would ever see it again would be if there was a repeat, which happened rarely - if you missed it, you missed it. If you loved it there was a fair chance you'd never see it again.