House of Darkness (1947)
Mar 18, 2003Haunting
A minor British ghost story about a composer who looks in and sees the lives of the inhabitants of a haunted house replayed. This comes with some modest effect
John Gilling
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
Mar 22, 2012British Comedy/Mad Scientist
One in a series of popular British drag comedies of the era, this imports Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist for a series of frenetic and none-too-funny goings-on that make little sense
The Gamma People (1956)
Jul 31, 2019Soviet Experiments to Create Super-Children
One of the early films from Anglo-horror director John Gilling, this takes place in a fictional Soviet republic and features experiments to create a race of super-children
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Oct 17, 2024Anglo-Horror/Possibly Supernatural Cat Killings
A film that comes from the early days of the Anglo-Horror cycle and features a number of Hammer personnel about the greedy relatives seeking a will being killed by a possibly supernatural cat
The Gorgon (1964)
Apr 7, 2001The Medusa/Hammer Film
One of few attempts to create an original movie monster by Hammer Films, which they take from the Medusa of Greek myth. The result is an exquisitely and beautifully made film
The Night Caller (1965)
Jun 21, 2016Aliens Abduct Models
This has the most ridiculous premise of any alien invasion film – an alien is abducting women from ads for models placed in girlie magazines – but is played with a stone-faced seriousness that defies you to laugh
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Mar 7, 2009Hammer Zombie Film
Classic Hammer film, vividly made and rich in subtext, concerning aristocrats turning the peasantry into zombies to work in the mines
The Reptile (1966)
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
Trog (1970)
Jan 18, 2005Revived Caveman
A revived caveman effort that is fairly terrible on all accounts. This has gained bad movie status because it features Joan Crawford as a scientist in her last theatrical role
The Cross of the Devil (1975)
Aug 4, 2021Continental Gothic/Undead Knights Templar
The little-seen final film from Hammer director John Gilling, an Anglo-horror styled work about resurrected Knights Templar