Joan Collins Archives

The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 14, 2000Screwball Comedy

After a decade, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby returned for their sixth and final Road movie. Both they and the knockabout comedy are on great form with the show taking on the influence of the 60s spy movie fad and even sending them to The Moon

Director: Norman Panama

Actors: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 August 200029 August 2021 by Roog

Quest for Love (1971)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 11, 2012Alternate History

One of the rare cinematic ventures into alternate history, a British film adapted from a story by John Wyndham. This holds up as a fair and reasonable alternate history outing, driven by a strong and original romantic story

Director: Ralph Thomas

Actors: Tom Bell, Joan Collins, Denholm Elliott, Laurence Naismith, …

Category: Science Fiction

11 November 201220 November 2024 by Roog

Tales from the Crypt (1972)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 18, 2001Horror Anthology/Comic-Book Adaptation

Amicus adapts several stories from the notorious EC Comics as one of their anthology films. Missing is EC's black humour but this is a worthwhile Amicus anthology

Director: Freddie Francis

Actors: Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Joan Collins, Chloe Franks, …

Category: Horror

18 February 200117 March 2023 by Roog

Fear in the Night (1972)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 29, 2002Hammer Psycho-Thriller

One of the better psycho-thrillers made by Hammer Films where a deft script is aided by good performances including Peter Cushing and a wonderfully bitchy Joan Collins

Director: Jimmy Sangster

Actors: Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Judy Geeson

Category: Horror

29 July 200221 October 2025 by Roog

Tales That Witness Madness (1973)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 1, 2002Horror Anthology

Director Freddie Francis had had great success making several of the Amicus horror anthologies then went independent to made another Amicus-styled anthology here with mixed results

Director: Freddie Francis

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Joan Collins, Kim Novak, Jack Hawkins, …

Category: Horror

1 November 200220 April 2021 by Roog

Dark Places (1973)

Rating: ★★

Jun 6, 2017Psycho-Thriller

A forgotten item from the Anglo-horror cycle in which brother and sister Christopher Lee and Joan Collins conspire to fake a series of hauntings in order to obtain an inheritance hidden in a mansion

Director: Don Sharp

Actors: Robert Hardy, Joan Collins, Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, …

Category: Horror

6 June 20178 October 2025 by Roog

Empire of the Ants (1977)

Rating: ★

Feb 1, 2001Giant Atomic Ants

In the 1950s Bert I. Gordon specialised in cheap giant insect films. Here he takes H.G. Wells' name in vain and jumps aboard the 1970s Animals Amok cycle but still makes another shoddy film about giant ants

Director: Bert I. Gordon

Actors: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Pamela Susan Shoop, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 February 20014 April 2023 by Roog

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

Rating: ★

Apr 23, 2000Prehistoric Comedy/Cartoon in Live-Action

Sequel to the live-action The Flintstones film. Whether we asked for it or not, this offers up a Flintstones origin story where we see familiar elements of the series fall into place

Director: Brian Levant

Actors: Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston, Jane Krakowski, …

Category: Fantasy

23 April 200031 July 2026 by Roog