Category: home video hovel

dayne linford / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 18, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Heroes Shed No Tears, by Dayne Linford

John Woo belongs to that worldwide pantheon of legendarily cool directors achieving international notoriety at the end of the 90s, reworking classic Hollywood tropes and genres to create something that, despite those antecedents, feels almost entirely original. But, before bullet...

alexander miller / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 14, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Lust for a Vampire, by Alexander Miller

Among the many phases of Hammer, the biggest rift lies in between their period at Bray studios and the later Elstree era. The Bray manor hosted classics like Horror of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and other classics...

alexander miller / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 14, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Quatermass and the Pit, by Alexander Miller

The Quatermass series is vitally important in the history of Hammer Horror. Though they’re primarily rooted in science fiction, these titles doubly embrace an atmosphere of terror. After working in a myriad of genres, prolific producer Anthony Hinds gobbled up...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 13, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Reptile, by David Bax

John Gilling’s The Reptile, from 1966, is probably not anybody’s idea of the best Hammer horror movie ever but there’s just no denying the, well, Hammerness of it all. It’s got all the Victorian/Gothic trappings, from the gaudily yet somehow...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / west anthony

August 12, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Quatermass 2, by West Anthony

The Quatermass trilogy is a real treat for fans of classic sci-fi horror stories in which mankind is threatened by a fun bunch of guys from outer space. Based on a trio of British television serials written by Nigel Kneale,...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 8, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Fate of Lee Khan, by David Bax

With the exception of a sly prologue and a bravura finale, King Hu’s 1973 The Fate of Lee Khan takes place almost entirely inside a 14th century inn located in rural China. In that sense, it could almost be a...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 7, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Do the Right Thing, by David Bax

We’re all familiar with the movie trope of the dance party ending (I’m sure that, like me, everyone else thinks first of Dan Aykroyd shimmying to “Land of a Thousand Dances” at the end of The Great Outdoors, right?). But...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / west anthony

July 22, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Leopard Man, by West Anthony

If you’ve been listening to Adam Roche’s podcast The Secret History Of Hollywood, you know that he has been laboring for over two years now on an exhaustive multi-part series on producer Val Lewton; the episodes are few and far...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

July 15, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Man Who Laughs, by David Bax

Before even ten minutes have passed in Paul Leni’s towering landmark 1928 film The Man Who Laughs, we’ve seen a man mockingly informed that his son’s face has been intentionally disfigured; then, while still in the throes of torment, that...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

June 11, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Boom!, by David Bax

If the 2019 Met Gala taught us anything, it’s that a lot of folks don’t have a strong grasp on how “camp” is defined. And I’ll be honest; I might be one of them. But I feel like I have...

Category: home video hovel

Home Video Hovel: Heroes Shed No Tears, by Dayne Linford

Home Video Hovel: Lust for a Vampire, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: Quatermass and the Pit, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: The Reptile, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Quatermass 2, by West Anthony

Home Video Hovel: The Fate of Lee Khan, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Do the Right Thing, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Leopard Man, by West Anthony

Home Video Hovel: The Man Who Laughs, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Boom!, by David Bax

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