Monthly Archives: January 2020

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

One of the chief defining characteristics of Hammer’s initial run of Gothic horrors in the late 50’s and early 60’s is the resistance to produce traditional, straightforward, or even faithful updates to horror’s canon of literary and cinematic monsters. The … Continue reading →

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To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

The swan song for Hammer horror (for a few decades, at least), To the Devil a Daughter (1976) is a belated attempt to present harder-edged genre material. Apart from perhaps the underrated psychological thriller Straight on Till Morning (1972), Daughter … Continue reading →

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The Company of Wolves (1984)

If you have seen Neil Jordan’s The Company of Wolves (1984), your first viewing was probably a lot like mine: I went in expecting a werewolf movie and instead encountered something surprisingly more. The VHS cover art, ubiquitous in the … Continue reading →

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