Brian Clemens Archives

The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 27, 2020Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story about a guilty murderer haunted by the beating of the victim's heart. A not uninteresting effort written by Brian Clemens, the creator of tv's The Avengers that aims for dark psychological mood

Director: Ernest Morris

Actors: Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Dermot Walsh

Category: Horror

27 February 202011 January 2024 by Roog

And Soon the Darkness (1970)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 6, 2003Stalked Tourists Psycho-Thriller

Overlooked psycho-thriller from Robert Fuest, director of the Dr Phibes films, about a girl whose friend goes missing while on a cycling tour through France. Fuest does an great job in making the French countryside into something sinister

Director: Robert Fuest

Actors: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Eles, John Nettleton, …

Category: Horror

6 March 200316 July 2024 by Roog

Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)

Rating: ★★★½

May 28, 2000Dr Jekyll Becomes a Woman/Hammer Film

Rather enjoyable latter day Hammer Film, which plays its title pun surprisingly seriously. Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick are perfectly matched as the gender-changing Dr Jekyll

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Actors: Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander, …

Category: Horror

28 May 200024 January 2026 by Roog

See No Evil (1971)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 16, 2001Blind Woman vs a Psycho

Tense psycho-thriller with Mia Farrow as a blind woman stalked through her home by a killer who has slaughtered her family

Director: Richard Fleischer

Actors: Mia Farrow, Brian Rawlinson, Norman Eshley

Category: Horror

16 December 200127 February 2020 by Roog

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 12, 2002Arabian Nights Adventure

The second of Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad films, an Arabian Nights adventure. Made as a vehicle for Harryhausen's stop-motion effects, which are stunning. Everything about the film is classic

Director: Gordon Hessler

Actors: John Phillip Law, Tom Baker, Caroline Munro, Douglas Wilmer, …

Category: Fantasy

12 November 200212 March 2026 by Roog

Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1974)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 1, 2001Hammer Vampire Hunter Film

Interesting Hammer film than never quite succeeded where director Brian Clemens, creator of tv’s The Avengers, tries to blend the staple of the Hammer vampire film with a swashbuckler

Director: Brian Clemens

Actors: Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Cater, John Carson, …

Category: Horror

1 April 200127 February 2020 by Roog

The Watcher in the Woods (1980)

Rating: ★★

Jun 22, 2002Other-Dimensional Haunting

Problem ridden Disney ghost story with a science-fiction rationalisation that never quite comes together on screen

Director: John Hough

Actors: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Bette Davis, David McCallum, Kyle Richards, …

Category: Science Fiction

22 June 200227 February 2020 by Roog

Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

Rating: ★

Mar 21, 2001Immortal Combat/Dark Future

Probably THE worst sequel ever made. The script’s treatment of continuity to the first film is utterly incoherent, while director Russell Mulcahy and most of the cast go at it with unrestrained OTT excess

Director: Russell Mulcahy

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Michael Ironside, Virginia Madsen, …

Category: Fantasy, Science Fiction

21 March 20015 July 2022 by Roog

And Soon the Darkness (2010)

Rating: ★★

Jan 29, 2011Stalked Tourists Psycho-Thriller

Another pointless 1970s remake, in this case of the little-known British psycho-thriller about two tourists stalked in the French countryside (now transplanted to Argentina) with ho-hum results

Director: Marcos Efron

Actors: Amber Heard, Odette Yustman, Karl Urban, Adriana Barraza

Category: Horror

29 January 201118 November 2025 by Roog