Ray Barrett Archives

Thunderbirds Are Go (1966)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 18, 2003Hi-Tech Rescue Organisation/Puppet Film

The first of the films spun off from Gerry Anderson’s cult puppet tv series. Not a completely successful transition but it is, as always with an Anderson production, worth watching for what the Andersons do best – making amazing models and blowing them up

Director: David Lane

Actors: Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Alexander Davion, Peter Dyneley, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 March 200322 April 2021 by Roog

The Reptile (1966)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 1, 2000Hammer Film/Human-Snake Transformation

Classic Hammer film in which Jacqueline Pearce turns into a snake creature. This seems to have been conceived as one of Hammer's Dracula films but with snakes. It is given more than reasonable atmosphere by director John Gilling

Director: John Gilling

Actors: Jacqueline Pearce, Ray Barrett, Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, …

Category: Horror

1 January 20004 August 2021 by Roog

Thunderbird 6 (1968)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 10, 2002Hi-Tech Rescue Organisation/Puppet Film

The second of the films spun off from the Gerry Anderson puppet tv series and a much better dramatically sustained film than its predecessor

Director: David Lane

Actors: Ray Barrett, David Graham, Neil McCallum, Jeremy Wilkin, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 June 200213 June 2022 by Roog

Contagion (1987)

Rating: ★★

Apr 6, 2022Mysterious Backwoods Happenings/Ozploitation Film

Not a pandemic film despite the title, an obscure oddity from the great era of Ozploitation where a man undergoes a series of strange experiences as he is drawn to a mystery house in the backwoods

Director: Karl Zwicky

Actors: John Doyle, Ray Barrett, Chris Betts, Michael Simpson

Category: Horror

6 April 20226 April 2022 by Roog

As Time Goes By (1988)

Rating: ★★

Mar 7, 2005Gonzo Time Travel

A very eccentric Australian film about a man wound into solving a temporal paradox by aliens who time travel in a greasy spoon diner

Director: Barry Peak

Actors: Nique Needles, Bruno Lawrence, Ray Barrett, Max Gillies, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 March 200519 November 2025 by Roog

In the Winter Dark (1999)

Rating: ★★★½

Jan 19, 2008Mysterious Creatures in the Australian Outback

A film about mysterious happenings on a farm in the Australian Outback that creates an intensely haunted mood concerning something that might be lurking out there

Director: James Bogle

Actors: Ray Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto, Brenda Blethyn

Category: Horror

19 January 200817 April 2026 by Roog

Visitors (2003)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 7, 2005Yachtboard Ghost Story

Strong return to genre material for Australian director Richard Franklin with Radha Mitchell as a yachtswoman in a round the world race facing ghosts on board that may well all be in her imagination

Director: Richard Franklin

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Susannah York, Domenic Purcell, Ray Barrett, …

Category: Horror

7 March 20053 June 2025 by Roog