James Villiers Archives

The Damned (1963)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 18, 2000Radioactive Children/Hammer Film

A very atypical Hammer film. US director Joseph Losey makes a stark and effective contemporary set film about the discovery of children that have been left radioactively mutated by an experiment

Director: Joseph Losey

Actors: Oliver Reed, Shirley Ann Field, MacDonald Carey, Alexander Knox, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 July 20005 May 2026 by Roog

Bulldog Drummond was a gentleman adventurer hero popular in books and films of the 1930s/40s. Here he is reincarnated as a playboy spy amid the spate of James Bond inspired spy films of the 1960s, battling a super-villain outfitted with an army of women with robot brains

Director: Ralph Thomas

Actors: Richard Johnson, James Villiers, Daliah Lavi, Robert Morley, …

Category: Science Fiction

8 January 202028 June 2023 by Roog

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 19, 2005Revived Mummy Queen/Hammer Film

Hammer Films adapt Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Stars about a revived mummy queen. A troubled production that ended up being one of Hammer's never-quite-rans

Director: Michael Carreras, Seth Holt

Actors: Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir, James Villiers, Hugh Burden, …

Category: Horror

19 June 200525 June 2022 by Roog

The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972)

Rating: ★★★

May 11, 1999Children's Ghost Story/Time Travel

This Victorian-set children's film has not been widely seen and has gained a small cult reputation for many years its ambitious plot involving a ghost story and time travel

Director: Lionel Jeffries

Actors: Lynne Frederick, Diana Dors, Lawrence Naismith, Rosalyn Landor, …

Category: Fantasy

11 May 199924 November 2025 by Roog

Asylum (1972)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 1, 2002Horror Anthology

One of the best of the horror anthologies from UK’s Amicus Films. This adapts four stories from Robert Bloch, which are all tales told by the inmates of the titular asylum and settle in with chill effectiveness

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Actors: Robert Powell, Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, Britt Ekland, …

Category: Horror

1 April 200220 November 2025 by Roog

Spectre (1977)

Rating: ★★★

Oct 21, 2007Occult Investigators

Another unsold Gene Roddenberry tv pilot, this would have made for a potentially worthwhile series involving Robert Culp and Gig Young as occult investigators

Director: Clive Donner

Actors: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt, Ann Bell, James Villiers, …

Category: Horror

21 October 200731 October 2024 by Roog

King Ralph (1991)

Rating: ★★

May 7, 2000American Slob Becomes the King of England Comedy

A comedy where the Royal Family is wiped out and vulgar American nightclub singer John Goodman inherits the crown. Much comedic play between American vulgarity and British ceremony ensues.

Director: David S. Ward

Actors: John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Richard Griffiths, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 May 200012 June 2026 by Roog