Torture Garden (1967)
Jun 28, 2002Horror Anthology
Following the success of Dr Terror's House of Horrors, this was the second of Amicus's trademark horror anthologies with Burgess Meredith as a carnival barker showing people their fates
John Standing
The Legacy (1978)
Dec 13, 2002Occult Killings
One of the last gasps of the Anglo-horror cycle, this sets assorted deviltry in an English mansion along with a series of novelty deaths that trying to compete with The Omen
Nightflyers (1987)
Mar 19, 2019Space Expedition Goes Wrong
Dismissed at the time, I have always though this George R.R. Martin adaptation was an underappreciated work. Not without its problems, it creates a great sense of cosmological grandeur and has an interesting story that makes it different to the usual Alien clones of the day
King Solomon’s Mines (2004)
Feb 22, 2005Adventure Mini-Series
A Hallmark TV mini-series version of the classic H. Rider haggard adventure novel that suffers from a non-acting Patrick Swayze badly miscast as Allan Quatermain
V for Vendetta (2006)
Apr 2, 2006Graphic Novel Adaptation/Totalitarian Future England
Adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel with a script from The Wachowskis. Moore's repudiation aside, this is a fine and literate work that retells the story of an anarchist trickster and potently politicises it for the era of the George W. Bush.