George Coulouris

Womaneater (1957)

Womaneater (1957)
Rating: ★½
Jan 7, 2016Mad Scientist Sacrifices Women to a Plant Creature
Behind the lurid title, this concerns a mad scientist sacrificing women to a plant in his basement … This came out the same year as Hammer Films burst onto the English horror scene and by comparison is a plodding affair with no greater ambition than being a 1940s Bela Lugosi cheapie
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The Man Without a Body (1957)

The Man Without a Body (1957)
Rating: ★
Oct 24, 2018Nostradamus’s Disembodied Head
This came out two weeks before Hammer Films had their first success with The Curse of Frankenstein. Where Hammer discovered the future of British horror, this is no more than a dreary quota quickie that has possibly the most lunatic scheme of any British horror film involving the revival of Nostradamus's severed head
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The Stranger (1973)

The Stranger (1973)
Rating: ★★
Aug 3, 2017Counter Earth
Essentially a tv movie version of the Gerry Anderson film Doppelganger in which an astronaut comes around to find he is on a Counter Earth. The premise, an alternate history of sorts, is nonsensical and even then the film abandons it soon in to become a variant on The Fugitive
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The Final Programme (1974)

The Final Programme (1974)
Rating: ★★
Sep 23, 2000Spy Capers in an Entropic Future/Michael Moorcock Adaptation
Michael Moorcock's psychedelic adventurer hero Jerry Cornelius gets a disappointing film adaptation here. There are imaginative sets but the plot plays out as a pedestrian spy thriller
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