Isla Blair Archives

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 29, 2002Hammer Dracula Sequel

The fifth of Hammer's Dracula films and by general consensus the last worthwhile entry. New director Peter Sasdy brings something fresh and this has an interesting plot that digs beneath Victorian hypocrisy

Director: Peter Sasdy

Actors: Christopher Lee, Ralph Bates, Geoffrey Keen, Linda Hayden, …

Category: Horror

29 July 20025 July 2026 by Roog

Mother Love (1989)

Rating: ★★

Dec 2, 2014Psychopathic Mother

There was undeniable shock value watching 1960s sex symbol Diana Rigg cast as a venomous middle-aged woman with murder on her mind. While this BBC mini-series won awards, you feel that a 1960s Hammer psycho-thriller would have conducted it in half the time

Director: Simon Langton

Actors: Diana Rigg, Fiona Gillies, James Wilby, David McCallum, …

Category: Horror

2 December 201423 May 2020 by Roog

The Monk (1990)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 6, 2005Monk's Temptation by the Devil

An adaptation of a classic 18th Century Gothic novel about a priest who faces diabolic temptations in the form of a woman disguised as a novice monk amid much tortured guilt and damnation

Director: Paco Lara

Actors: Paul McGann, Sophie Ward, Isla Blair, Freda Dowie, …

Category: Horror

6 November 200527 March 2026 by Roog

The Quatermass Experiment (2005)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 31, 2005Mutating Astronaut

A remake of the first Quatermass story conducted as a live broadcast tv movie. Quite a considerable technical achievement considering the limitations and one that works with quite reasonable results

Director: Sam Miller

Actors: Jason Flemyng, Adrian Dunbar, David Tennant, Mark Gatiss, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 October 200521 March 2023 by Roog