Vampire. 1979.

Vampire Prince Anton Voytek's grave is disturbed by the building of a new church and tries to use his wealth of treasure but it has been confiscated and seeks revenge on the architect of the church.

Richard Lynch plays the recently awakened Vampire in modern day and tries to find his treasure that has been taken by the authorities until it is verified on who it belongs to. Jason Miller plays the architect who's wife was bewitched by Anton and teams up with old retired detective E.G. Marshall.

The film does have its suspense moments which are decently built up, there is no gore in this but does leave you with insinuations on what has and probably will happen. Richard Lynch's portrayal as a vampire is done decently and has the charisma of being charming, friendly and can show his darker side. Worth a watch.

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Master of the Flying Guillotine. 1976.

After his disciples are killed by a One Arm Boxer, a blind man sets on a trail of revenge with his small flying Guillotine weapon.

if you are not a fan of the old 70s martial arts film then this isn't for you, the plot seems daft but does work in a strange way, every school of martial arts has been invited to attend a tournament and along comes the blind assassin looking for every one arm fighter and not caring if he is the right person or wrong person. The fight scenes are choreographed very well and including the final fight scene, Worth a watch.

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This was the 1st of The Romeo Zombie Movies I saw as Dawn Of The Dead wasn't in my Video Shop until EIV re-released it.

I remember seeing the Trailer and wanted to see it badly and that green VHS cover is just memorable.

I loved the F/X and didn't realize that they had run out of money, I didn't really notice the difference.

This is my favorite Romeo Zombie Movie, it made Dawn seem slow and boring when I 1st saw it.

I know that this seems to be a broken record but this film needs a UK Blu Ray release.

Was hoping 88 Films were going to do it seeing thaey had released The Flying Guillotine.

Remember seeing this on one of those Grindhouse Trailer Classic DVD's

Wild Child & Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS
 

Wild Child

Emma Roberts is the rebellious Teenager sent to England (As punishment) she stays at a Boarding School where predictably doesn't want to make friends, becomes enemies with the Head Prefect with delusions of grandeur and wants out of there and is willing to cause as much trouble as possible before realizing that it's not all that bad.

Picked this up at a Poundland that recently re-opened (Along with other DVD's) it's one of those films that I forgot existed before spotting it. It's not bad but follows the template of other similar movies.

Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS

Dyanne Thorne utterly convinces as a Commandant of a Concentration Camp where prisoners are subjected to experiments and sexual abuse.

Whilst not as good as Gestapo's Last Orgy, it's probably the 2nd best film in this particular genre (Not counting the mainstream versions of this genre). Thorne is completely believable in striking fear into people.

The Girl on the Train (2016)

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this movie. Going off the star ratings from the likes of Vogue, Tatler and Heat magazines i definitely wasn't the intended target audience of this mystery thriller.

Whilst i did find this story of a girl who passes a home and fantasizes about it's inhabitants from her train window every day quite interesting, it also became rather formulaic towards the denouement and despite or perhaps because of the fragmented way in which the plot maneuvered itself it felt to have a lack of substance and the story not strong enough to fill 100+ minutes meaning the intrigue that initially built up, especially around Emily Blunt's alcoholic 'girl at the window', wasn't capitalized upon as well as it could have been and The Girl on the Train ended up merely another psycho thriller.

A good cast - Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Allison Janney, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramirez, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux and Lisa Kudrow - in effect disguised an exercise in style over substance.

Spectre (2015) ★★★★

Sam Mendes set a high bar for Bond films with his superb Skyfall. While Spectre does not quite meet the high standards of that film, it's a superb piece of filmmaking.

From the opening sequence in Mexico City with a helicopter barrel rolling and loop-the-looping over a crowded square through the decent theme song by Sam Smith to the car chase in Rome, the aeroplane in the Alps, the introduction to Blofeld, the revelations about Bond's childhood and how this film is linked to characters and events in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, to M's line about knowing when to shoot and knowing when not to shoot having significance, it's a film with a lot going on, but is written in such a way that everything has resonance, is easy to follow, and is emotionally satisfying.

Spectre is a film which seems to have improved with repeated viewings – it's one I enjoyed much more last night than when I saw it a couple years ago, and I feel I appreciated the writing, the humour, and the storytelling more than when I watched it in 2017.

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LAND OF THE DEAD (2005)

For me, just an okay movie. The idea of the Dead Reckoning armoured carrier is good and the idea of part of a city fenced off.
I am not keen on the 'thinking' zombie idea. George got away with trying to domesticate Bub in Day Of The Dead but for me this is a too far.
The 'hero' zombie Big Daddy acts too human for my liking.
The make up and gore effects are great as always but for me a step down from what came before.

I agree with all of that, I've watched this film perhaps 4 or 5 times trying to like it more than I do, but it's just OK. Good cast as well but there is just something missing.

Watching Night, i have switched between Night, Day & Dawn over the years as my fave romero film.
I miss my brother, who took hisl own life in 2015. We used to watch all these (plus Re Animator, Alien trilogy, Fulci, Argento etc).

Rest easy Steve, I love you & will forever be grateful that you were my brother and best friend.

Yeah, even though it came out at the Cinema, it seemed out of place in the series, more like a straight to DVD release along with Diary and Survival.

It's like The American Pie series having brilliant theatrical releases but rubbish straight to DVD releases.

Ilsa: Harem Keeper Of The Oil Sheiks & Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
 

Ilsa: Harem Keeper of The Oil Sheiks

Dyanne Thorne returns again as Ilsa, this time she is charge of a wealthy Sheik's kidnapped female sex slaves.

Some nice gory scenes and Thorne again impresses as the fearsome Ilsa, she certainly knows how to play this role well.

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

A group of teens in the 60's find a book of stories and realize that the newer stories are coming true.

This got released at The Cinema the same week as Crawl, for which I do not know why. It split your target audience and it wasn't even Halloween. Anyway I saw Crawl mainly because the show times fitted in my schedule easier and I believe I made the right decision. This film had a good start but lost it's way 3 quarters in. I found the DVD on sale so it isn't a regrettable purchase but if I had have paid full price then it would have been.

First blood
 

Had not watched First Blood in quite a long time,so with the new Blu Ray transfer,I thought it was time to revisit this classic...I think that time has been pretty good to this film, where as the second film seems very much in the era of Ronald Reagan and the cold war... Nowadays we would recognise John Rambo's condition as Post-traumatic stress disorder, something I bet the bullish police in the film,wish they knew about before they started tormenting Rambo with a razor... Although you can't blame Rambo for wanting to escape police custody, because there not exactly portrayed as being the most enligntained or proficient at there jobs...Where as soon as Rambo escapes his captors and gets into the woods,he soon show's the cops a thing or two about hunting...As for Stallone, It's definitely a career defining role,and heads above the test of franchise, where he just seems monosyllabic and a bit grumpy... Also you never get the feeling he is in any real peril with the sequels,but with First Blood, the odds are definitely against our hero, well until the police start surcombing to his traps and tricks that is... Let's not forget the late great Brian Dennehy who made these kind of roles his own...

Ghosthouse. 1988. (La Casa 3)

Two Ham Radio enthusiasts trace a signal from a cry for help to a abandoned where a couple were killed and a ghost child with a doll brings doom to the visitors.

Under the pseudonym Humphrey Herbert , Umberto Lenzi directed this chilling tale of a haunted house scenario, I have always thought this film would be a cheap Italian/Amercan film but i did enjoy it. The acting may not be the greatest as well as the writing but the cast do try their best to make it exciting as possible, even a clown with a creepy smile makes it more spooky.

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Witchery. 1998. (La Casa 4).

A group of people stranded on a island are being sacrificed by a witch who lives in the house they are taking shelter in.

I reviewed this last year on Halloween, bad acting, very poor special effects that were cheaply done even having the red doctor who vortex and the really noticeable fake blood even though it has some top stars we recognise and why did they star in this is beyond anyone's guess but its so bad its a guilty pleasure of mine to keep watching it.

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Beyond Darkness. 1990. (La Casa 5).

After a alleged witch dies in the electric chair and witnessed by Father George, Father Peter and his family move into the witch's old house and begin to be tormented.

Even though this has been directed by Claudio Fragasso...yes the guy who directed Troll 2, this was a buy blind for me and have no regrets whatsoever of the purchase. The acting was mediocre not award winning, the plot was decent even though there maybe one or two plot holes in the story but it was enjoyable. David Brandon (Stagefright) plays Father George now a drunk who witnessed the execution and Gene LeBrock as Father Peter who tries to save his family and young son who may be recognisable from Troll 2.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS:THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)
(Extended edition)

Epic! My favourite of the three films. These movies are just awesome.
The love and effort that went in to these movies astounding. The scene where Aragorn is in the Prancing Pony and his eyes are lit up by his pipe is how I imagined it when I read the book, and what with Howard Shore's amazing score..
:star::star::star::star::star:

Black Scorpion (1995)

A tremendously fun superhero flick from Roger Corman starring Joan Severance as a frustrated cop turned vigilante who dons a pvc costume (Think a stripper crossed with Catwoman) as she goes after nemesis The Breathtaker - a dodgy Darth Vader looking dude - who killed her father.

Far sexier than the watered down PC nonsense masquerading as superhero films nowadays. Black Scorpion doesn't take itself too seriously as Severance bounces around fighting crime whilst driving a cool car which molecularly changes it's appearance thanks to nifty scientist / mechanic Garrett Morris.

I've watched this dvd loads of times over the years. Love it.

Hellboy (2004) ★★★★

I've been a big fan Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mike Mignola's comic book series, he is a director with a love of the weird and wonderful and a visual flare which he always tends to use perfectly when bringing the otherworldly to life in a film.

The film has a great story with some wonderful characters, all superbly assayed by actors such as Ron Perlman, Jon Hegarty Doug Jones, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Selma Blair, and Doug Jones, and the blend of CGI and practical make-up makes the characters believable and visually interesting.

It's a movie with heart and humour and a strong storyline which is very well directed and edited so you get to know the characters whilst the action zips along – this director's cut has additional scenes which give greater depth to Broom, and the relationships between Grigori and Ilsa, and Myers and Liz.

As del Toro explains in the commentary that you can broadly split his films into two categories: the personal (Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth) and the commercial (Mimic, Blade), with Hellboy fitting into both camps. I really like this film and its sequel and they both really benefit from the better colours, contrast, and detail on the 4K Ultra HD discs.


Guillermo del Toro provides a fascinating and brilliantly delivered commentary on the director's cut of this superb film. I love listening to del Toro's commentaries because of the amount of information he puts into them and because he delivers with such passion and humour, and this is no exception.

His comm on Vampyr is a lot of fun. :nod:

It's a masterclass in how to research and deliver a commentary and a reason to buy the Eureka release as well as the Criterion Collection one.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas. 1989.

Sinbad and his shipmates aid a young prince to rescue his princess from a evil wizard and seek out Five stones that can restore peace to the city of Basra.

Lou Ferringo plays the hero Sinbad in this tale that's told to a small girl by her mum Daria Nicolodi. John Steiner plays the evil wizard Jaffar decently, may not be the best role for him but he does have the menacing eyes. From start to finish it may not be the greatest action adventure film even with bad dubbing that seems to correct itself halfway through strangely enough. Good enough to pass time away.

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Whilst not as outright entertaining than his Hercules, I rather enjoyed this silly movie. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGH5iZt-ya0

A very poor man's hammer/ amicus. In a small Cornish village people are disappear and then up dead, we soon learn the local doctor is responsible and that was disgraced and disbarred for the experiments he was conducting eternal life which he is continuing. 5/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40hHA9n4C2o

You could be forgiving from thinking this is a John Grisham type movie but as it goes on we find it's a supernatural thriller. Lawyer Keanu Reeves is head hunted by a huge new York firm , the firms/company's head takes a keen interest in him , as the film goes on we learn that as well as being his farther he also the devil and Keanu is a vital part of his fight against God. Keanu gives a surprising good performance but it's Pacino who steals the movie with his performance of the devil , where he eats up scenery and lays on the ham thick. 8/10
Now watching Screamers.

Hard To Die (1990, Arch Stanton)

:pound::pound::pound:
Five "hot babes" are trapped in a ... tower block. Forry Ackermann pops up in a cameo. Having temporarily run out of Andy Sidaris films to watch, I leapt at this, and it paid dividends. The hilarious "acting" on display is more akin to porn at times (as is the ST :laugh:).
They all work for ACME Lingerie btw ;);):laugh::lol::pound:

Ilsa: Tigress Of Siberia, Countdown, Battle Royale (Special Edition) & Snowpiercer
 

Ilsa The Tigress Of Siberia

Dyanne Thorne again returns to work for 1 of the world's nastiest people. This time she's in charge of a Stalin Prison Camp in Siberia where prisoners are drowned, electrocuted and sometimes fed to her pet Tiger in order to break the prisoners will. When she fails to break a particular prisoner and a prison break is successful, she re-locates to Montreal (She certainly got around) and runs a Massage Parlor, she encounters the same prisoner she was unable to break, both vow revenge on the other. As with the other 2 films, Thorne is convincing and there are plenty of nasty scenes as Ilsa makes her presence known.

Countdown

A newly qualified Nurse downloads an App which accurately tells you when you'll die. Even if you change plans and change your destiny, you still die. Definite shades of Final Destination but it isn't all that bad, having a running time under 90 minutes certainly helps even though the sexual harassment storyline is a bit un-necessary. I also base enjoyment on how much I paid for it and paying all 5 Pound makes this a tollable.

Battle Royale (Special Edition)

This is the Tartan release (Remember those guys) the story of a Japanese School Class forced to kill each other on an island. Takeshi Katano is the School Teacher in charge. This was the 1st subtitled film I bought and whilst good, I felt it dragged 3 quarters in.

Snowpiercer

Set In the future where global warming has frozen Earth, a Train keeps the remaining survivors alive however a class system is in effect and this causes Chris Evans to lead the other people considered lower class into a revolution.

Directed by the man who did Parasite, this is a brilliant film, very tense, some very good action scenes with 1 in particular makes me think that someone was inspired by Men Behind The Sun. Watch if you can.

Only one movie to watch on todays date..

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I take it you don't mean Beverley Hills Chihuahua (2008)? Which was the movie i just watched and thoroughly enjoyed.

Snowpiercer (2013)

Having owned the US Anchor Bay two disc dvd for a couple of years i thought it was about time i watched it.

Parasite's Bong Joon-Ho epic is thinking man's science fiction portraying a dystopian future every bit as apocalyptic and uncompromising as you could imagine.

Set in 2031 with the world plunged into a new ice age following a failed worldwide experiment to alter global warming and the planet uninhabitable, the last survivors live, if you can call it that, on what appears to be a self sustaining super train - the Snowpiercer. The train is inhabited with a strict class system with the poorest at the furthest end of the train. Led by Chris Evans, in one of his less wooden performances, the poor revolt in a bid to prosper.

Bong's film shows a lot of invention with exciting set pieces and a story line that both intrigues and invigorates the senses aided by a good cast on top form especially the bonkers Tilda Swinton with her strong Yorkshire accent.

If the film fails at anything it's in the FX department. Not the inside of the train which is superbly realised but the train traversing the frozen landscapes and 'piercing' ice walls in it's way. It all looks a bit too animated. However that's a minor fault really and it's an absolute blessing that a beautifully crafted work like this exists and someone like Bong Joon-Ho can both entertain and stimulate an audience among the dreck that the Hollywood studios (And Weinstein, but that's another story) throw at us.

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WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE – Russian black comedy about someone’s boyfriend taking on the murderously bent copper dad of his duplicitous other half. Who do you root for? No-one, unless you’re convinced of the inherent goodness of a roomful of total arseholes. Good job I’m just in it for the gore sometimes. WDYJD certainly throws in a bit of the old ultraviolence here and there as per such gag-baiting delights as a drill to the knee and a boudoir-cum-abattoir scene. In the end, though, it’s not that full-on. Much touted along the lines of ‘the first Western set in someone’s living room’ by critics who all say the same thing, it’s more like (a mostly) one-set play dragged through layers of nineties-type cine-stylisation. WDYJD’s more interesting aspect is the cross-genre shoehorning of ‘meet the in-laws’ comedy tropes into the realms of splat-stick, but as for the whole – I came away thinking that WDYJD has been kind of overrated given that lots of people ‘with an opinion’ seem to have collectively wet themselves over it, but it’s enjoyable enough for that.

PROZZIE – From the Cocaine Cowboy himself, ‘Prozzie’ wears its Hitchcock on its sleeve only to come across a little bit like a shoestring DePalma ie sexed up and stylized, but basically owing similar cinematic debts. But I can’t really say that as Ulli Lommel was a genuine original, I think. ‘Prozzie’ is, well, I guess you could say it’s closer to the ‘Devonsville Terror’ end of Lommel’s particular spectrum rather than anything like ‘Tenderness of the Wolves’, and is at its best during its minimalist first half, which features a few greasy, down-at-heel sets, a rigid atmosphere of English claustrophobia, and a pervasive twilit ambience carried by the constant drones of distant trawlers and Big Ben chimes on the soundtrack.

THE BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW – This used to always be on TV when I was a kid back in the eighties… or maybe my folks taped it and I just used to watch it all the time, can’t remember, but TBOSC remains a favourite to this day. What marks it out is difficult to pinpoint, but there’s just a sort of grim undercurrent to it all, coupled with jolts of gore that seem a bit unexpected. The satanic hair thing might be borrowed from more folkloric sources, but I was always quite taken with the way that it spreads like an infection; reverse echoes of the modernity that was around the corner in horror cinema. It has a touch of curdled sleaziness that is more apparent to me now, and that demon face always really bugged me and to an extent still does, despite it being a bit shit. Of a time and a place; with the likes of Michelle Dotrice cavorting in the woods, you couldn’t really get more 1970s UK.

SEVEN DEATHS IN A CAT’S EYE – From Margheriti, who seems here to want to fuse two strands of the Italian tradition in horror cinema, the gothic and the giallo. Stylistically, it couldn’t be more lush, and has a look that’s big on cobwebby passageways and flickering candles (or at least their spiritual equivalents). There are a few other plus points, including an incredibly fake gorilla who’s kind of ‘just there’ and doesn’t really do much (bit of a wasted opportunity, but I was kept entertained by the fact that I genuinely couldn’t tell for a good portion of the run-time whether I was supposed to be seeing a guy in a bad gorilla suit). Jane Birkin is in a starring role and so of course Serge Gainsbourg isn’t far behind (though in the unlikely guise of a Scottish detective!). On the downside, it never really ignites, but it’s good to look at.

Armour of God. 1986.

A ex-singer turned treasure hunter is asked by a old friend to help find his kidnapped girlfriend by a evil cult and find the missing pieces of a historical Armour.

This is like a Asian/Hong Kong version of Indiana Jones with more fight scenes and crazy stunts, Jackie Chan stars and directs this action/comedy packed with thrills, excitement, laughs and four Amazonian women who know where to try and kick a man in high heels. There is some noticable flaws in the film and does tend to go off during the middle part then picks up again. Always Enjoyable even though the main actor nearly died from a whacky stunt gone wrong.

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Operation Condor (Armour of God II). 1991.

Jackie is hired to find gold hidden by the Nazi's in the Sahara Desert accompanied by two women who seem connected to it and then by a third woman to add to his troubles.

This one was better than than the previous film, Jackie (Asian Hawk) is hired to find missing gold that a German Commander hid in a vault while being persued by other members of a different party, it does have his usual comedy mixed with fight scenes, in a wind tunnel shouting Superman and humor from a hotel manager and fight scenes. Along side a stunt which Jackie dislocating his sternum, but still managed to recover and do the same scene and bring us entertainment.

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Last House On The Left (1972), Monty Python's: Life Of Brian & Last King Of Scotland
 

The Last House On The Left (1972)

Wes Craven's Video Nasty in which 2 Teenage Girls are abducted by 4 escaped convicts and are sexually abused and murdered. The convicts car breaks down and end up staying at the house of one of the girls they murdered. When the parents find out, they get their bloody revenge.

Definitely one of the more famous Video Nasties out there and it is a good film with David Hess showing why he is fantastic at playing a sadistic psychopath. It's a shame, he didn't get more prominent rolls. He also believed he had something to do with the soundtrack also. There is also a small role for Martin Kove as a Sherriff's Deputy. As The law enforcement were made to look like bumbling fools, I wonder if that was to add some levity to what is a very nasty film?

Monty Python's: Life Of Brian

The famous British Comedy group's take on Religion and the Roman Empire. This is the 1st time, I've seen a Monty Python product and whilst it has some funny bits in it, some of it wasn't. I found Bryan's Mother to be unfunny.

The Last King Of Scotland

Forest Whitiker was awesome as Idi Amin, the self declared President of Uganda. His portrayal of someone who can be polite and charming to suddenly becoming increasingly un-rational should be studied by Acting Students. James McAvoy also plays his role well too.

Amistad (1997)

For all it's historical inaccuracies Steven Spielberg's Amistad is an excellent historical courtroom drama with superb performances all round, especially Djimon Hounsou in his debut and a mesmerizing turn from Anthony Hopkins as former president John Quincy Adams.

Malevolence (2004)

A slasher film that began with a decent premise as far away from the usual dumb kids talking shit routine we usually get. Malevolence takes place in the aftermath of a bank heist gone wrong where the gang get split up on their way to their woodland hideaway. One of the thieves comes across a mother and daughter who he kidnaps as collateral.

So far so good, the opening half of Malevolence is basically a reasonable low budget crime movie and perfectly enjoyable. It's during the second half where it all crashes down as the hideaway is also the hang out for a sack cloth masked killer who proceeds to hunt them all down.

BUT and it's a BIG BUT. This is a slasher film with no gore, no on screen kills and barely any blood splatter and this killed the movie stone dead for me. Sure there's a grimy atmosphere in the build up, and atmosphere's great but the final half hour is simply a disappointing damp squib.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service. 1969.

James Bond has been trying to track down Blofeld, on nearing his search he is assigned from the case and agrees to go undercover for a Mob Boss to the Swiss Alps and falls for the Mob Boss's daughter.

First saw this film in the mid 90s and didn't really care for it as it wasn't Sean Connery or Roger Moore that we grew up with and it wasn't on television much and seemed to be all over the place. Second viewing of this and seemed better and more understanding the film and the way it goes, George Lazenby could have been a decent James Bond and it seemed there was a opening for him to continue with the role with his past gadgets and opening title sequence.

Telly Savalas takes on the role as Ernst Stavro Blofeld and makes it his own as the director of a institute for women and cures them of their food hates and also uses a brainwashing device so they can leave and create a pandemic in their own countries with a Foot and Mouth Disease. Diana Rigg plays the leading lady as somewhat spoil rich little girl who we seems to hate then we start to like and warm up to as well as Bond who thinks he has met his future wife. There is some good action fights and chase scenes from the start with the beach fight and a bodyguard who doesn't like to be taken down and the ski fight down the Alps and then to a bobsled chase between Bond and Blofeld.

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I thought that it was only me that felt this film was a disappointment i tried to watch it twice as i thought i missed something and still second time was worse than the first

As always sir, a pleasure to read :nod:

The Collector (1965, William Wyler)

Awwwwww, it's too rushed. Whilst most of it's there (even the ending!!), it skips over the slightly more seedy aspects and fudges some others. He's just a bit repressed this one, not the sociopath of the book. For all that, lovely sets and Eggar is sweetly pretty etc etc. Mona Washbourne pops up (literally!) briefly as the only other female character.
Still overall, a film I should have seen before this. Bad Demon. :lol::rolleyes:

The Collectors '65 innit, i quite liked this when i saw it a few years back, i haven't read the book though so couldn't compare, i've got the dvd since and need to rewatch it at some point.

Have you seen the japanese film Blind Beast (1969)?, if you want another female abducted by a nutjob film i highly recommend it.:pop2: