From Beyond the Grave (1974)
Sep 14, 2002Horror Anthology
One of the best of the Amicus horror anthologies. All of the episodes are strong, well cast and well directed. The third episode offers a particularly funny comic take on the exorcism film
Kevin Connor
The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
May 6, 2000Prehistoric Lost World
The first in a trilogy of prehistoric lost world adventures based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novels, all starring Doug McClure. Despite variable effects, this is a well-made adventure with a strong script
At the Earth’s Core (1976)
Nov 7, 2001Lost World at the Centre of the Earth/Edgar Rice Burroughs Adaptation
Second in the trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations starring Doug McClure. This opens with the fabulous invention of the drilling mole but the arrival at the earth's core look cheap and tatty
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Apr 21, 2008Prehistoric Lost World
The third in the trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations with Doug McClure. This has much imagination despite the special effects often not being up to the task
Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
Aug 31, 2005Lost World Adventure
Not one of the Doug McClure Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations but by the same people and in the same vein. Thanks to a particularly inventive script this is the best of these lost world adventures
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Jun 18, 1999Arabian Nights Adventure
This tries hard to be another The Thief of Bagdad but is never too much more than a run through the cliches of the Arabian Nights adventure rewritten for the post-Star Wars era
Motel Hell (1980)
May 22, 2005Backwoods Brutality Comedy
Studio-backed attempt to enter the Backwoods Brutality genre ends up as an uncertain black comedy that fails to push the envelope anywhere near what its models do
The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
Oct 19, 2002Japan-Set Ghost Story
US-made ghost story set in Japan with a couple moved into a house haunted by a dead samurai, his wife and her lover. Not a patch on any of the classic Japanese kaidan eiga
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Jun 1, 2014Sherlock Holmes Unfrozen in the Present
Unsold tv pilot that features Sherlock Holmes cryogenically unfrozen in the present-day. While the characters have some quirky appeal, the exercise seems construed more as a copy of a tv show of the era like Moonlighting
Frankenstein (2004)
May 27, 2007Frankenstein Adaptation
TV mini-series that tries to conduct a rigorously faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s book and largely succeeds apart from some minor changes. On the other hand, none of the period setting or story much comes to life