Freddie Francis

The Innocents (1961)

The Innocents (1961)
Rating: ★★★★½
Aug 20, 2003Psychological Ghost Story
Henry James' The Turn of the Screw is a classic ghost story that hovers in a state of ambiguity as to whether the ghosts are real or in the heroine's imagination. Of the multiple film versions, this is the best and most authentic to the story
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The Day of the Triffids (1962)

The Day of the Triffids (1962)
Rating: ★½
Feb 1, 2002The Downfall of Civilisation/Alien Plant Invasion
The first film version of John Wyndham's novel about a catastrophe that renders most of the population blind and leaves them prey to lethal plants. This is killed by variable effects and the abandonment of much of the book
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The Skull (1965)

The Skull (1965)
Rating: ★★
Aug 14, 2004The Marquis de Sade's Possessed Skull
Peter Cushing-Christopher Lee vehicle from Amicus with Cushing as a collector who obtains the Marquis de Sade's possessed skull. One of the more over-rated Anglo-horror films, this feels more like an episode from one of their anthologies than a full film
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Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1969)

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1969)
Rating: ★★
Jun 23, 2016Grown-Ups Play Deadly Children's Games
Freddie Francis was one of the key players of the 1960s/70s Anglo-horror cycle – he always claimed that this was his favourite film, although it has seen little distribution. The film consists of an annoyingly giggly scenes of adults running around playing children’s games
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Son of Dracula (1974)

Son of Dracula (1974)
Rating: ½
Oct 21, 2013Musical Monster Bash
Bizarre musical monster bash with singer Harry Nilsson as Dracula's son and Ringo Starr as Merlin. A film that seems to have no real clue what it is doing beyond friends having a good time. Nilsson makes surely the screen's least threatening Dracula, while this is the worst film from the usually great Freddie Francis
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Dune (1984)

Dune (1984)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 1, 2001Desert World/Intergalactic Politics/Precognitive Messiah
David Lynch disowned his film version of the classic Frank Herbert SF novel. However, Lynch may be incapable of making a bad film and this, while acting freely with the book, has a visual grandeur that makes it highly watchable
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