Richard Johnson Archives

The Haunting (1963)

Rating: ★★★★★

Nov 3, 1999Haunted House

This is the finest haunted house film of all. In Robert Wise’s hands, the ghosts are unseen and only ever psychological and suggested – the results are terrifying. Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

Director: Robert Wise

Actors: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, …

Category: Horror

3 November 19992 April 2026 by Roog

Some Girls Do (1969)

Rating: ★★

Jan 8, 2020Spy Film

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

Beyond the Door (1974)

Rating: ½

Mar 25, 2012Demonic Possession

A blatant Italian copy of The Exorcist. An exploitation film made with almost zero directorial style that only has the schlock amusements of its attempts to outdo The Exorcist going for it

Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis

Actors: Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, David Colin Jr

Category: Horror

25 March 201227 November 2025 by Roog

Logan’s Run (1976)

Rating: ★

Feb 2, 2003Dystopian Future

Dystopian SF mounted on a big budget by people that don't have a clue what they are doing. This creates one of prettiest depictions of the future of any film of this era but it is only a surface deep depiction

Director: Michael Anderson

Actors: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Johnson, Peter Ustinov, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 February 200328 June 2026 by Roog

The Comeback (1978)

Rating: ★★★

May 9, 1999Psycho-Thriller

One of the films from Pete Walker, a greatly underrated director working in the British horror film in 1970s, in which pop star Jack Jones retreats to a country house only to be stalked by a psycho

Director: Pete Walker

Actors: Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle, Sheila Keith, …

Category: Horror

9 May 199913 July 2026 by Roog

Zombie – Flesh Eaters (1979)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 11, 2003Italian Zombie Splatter

Italian film conceived as a quickie copy of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead with the focus on gore scenes. This made the name of cult Italian splatter director Luci Fulci.

Director: Lucio Fulci

Actors: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver

Category: Horror

11 January 20037 June 2026 by Roog

The Great Alligator (1979)

Rating: ★

Jun 20, 2010Giant Alligator

A belated Italian-made attempt to jump aboard the bandwagon and copy Jaws with a giant alligator hunting people on an island

Director: Sergio Martino

Actors: Claudio Cassinelli, Barbara Bach, Mel Ferrer, Richard Johnson, …

Category: Horror

20 June 20106 August 2026 by Roog

The Monster Club (1980)

Rating: ★★

Dec 6, 2002Horror Anthology

Following the collapse of Amicus Films, producer Milton Subotsky went on on his own to make this horror anthology, the bread and butter of Amicus in their heyday. Though he brings in some major horror names – Vincent Price, John Carradine – the jokey tone failed to find any success

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Actors: Vincent Price, John Carradine, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Kellerman, …

Category: Horror

6 December 200230 September 2023 by Roog

Lara Croft, Tomb Raider (2001)

Rating: ★★

Jun 15, 2001Videogame Adaptation

The first film adaptation of the popular videogame is a film largely premised around the personality of Angelina Jolie. Outside of that, the film is a half-baked series of plot ends and action scenes taken from better films

Director: Simon West

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor, Daniel Craig, …

Category: Fantasy

15 June 200120 June 2026 by Roog