Review, buy Horror & Suspense: Doctor Who - The Mind of Evil [1963], Nosferatu / Der Cabinet Des Dr Caligari [1922], The Old, Dark House [1962], The Plague Of The Zombies [1966], Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon [1963], Beast With Five Fingers [1947], Gorgo [1960], White Zombie [1932], Doctor Who - Planet of Evil [1963], The Mummy [1932], Bedlam [1946], Mystery Of The Wax Museum [1933], Doctor Who The E-Space Trilogy [1963], Weekend [1968], First Men In The Moon [1964], Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966], Doctor Who - The Robots of Death [1986] [1963], Doctor Who - The Daleks (Limited Edition tin: The Chase[1965]/Remembrance of the Daleks[1988]), The Phantom Of The Opera [1925], Gorgon [1964]

A Victorian Cornish tin-mining village suffers a series of mysterious deaths and the local doctor's old professor, Sir James Forbes (Andre Morell), comes to investigate. Graves are empty, a man who has just been buried is seen on the moors and the Squire is up to his neck in camp voodoo rituals. Though containing one genuinely disturbing graveyard sequence involving the undead, The Plague of the Zombies is more a feverish black-magic thriller, the real threat coming from the malevolent Squire Clive Hamilton (John Carson) and his upper-class cronies. Indeed, the portrayal of fox-hunters as shockingly brutal thugs is remarkable for 1966, and while the genre horror is dated, the real horror is in the extreme class warfare which drives the plot. Less famous than Hammer's Dracula and Frankenstein films, this is nevertheless a gripping, stylish picture from The Studio that Dripped Blood. Depending not on gore but on story, acting and atmosphere, it continues the tradition of Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie (1943) and, pre-dating The Night of the Living Dead (1968), is the last old-style zombie classics. Blake's Seven fans will be delighted by an early lead role for Jacqueline Pearce (Servalan), who the same year starred in Hammer's The Reptile. -Gary S. Dalkin.

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon [1963]

Doctor Who - The Curse of Peladon [1963] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Jon Pertwee
Katy Manning
Barry Letts
David Troughton
Lennie Manyne

Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £14.99

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Review MGM Entertainment / Beast With Five Fingers [1947]

Beast With Five Fingers [1947] (MGM Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Robert Florey|Robert Alda|Andrea King|Peter Lorre

Release date: 1996-04-22
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £44.99

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Review DD Home Entertainment / Gorgo [1960]

Gorgo [1960] (DD Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Eugene Lourie
William Sylvester
Vincent Winter
Bill Travers
Joseph O'Conor
Christopher Rhodes

Release date: 1993-08-31
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £10.99

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White Zombie [1932] (Redemption Films)

Actors & Directors

Madge Bellamy
John Harron
Joseph Cawthorn
Bela Lugosi
Robert Frazer
Victor Halperin

Release date: 1993-09-13
Run time: 64 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - Planet of Evil [1963]

Doctor Who - Planet of Evil [1963] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

John Gorrie
Richard Martin (IV)
Tom Baker
Elizabeth Sladen

Release date: 1993-12-29
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £4.90

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Mummy [1932]

The Mummy [1932] (Universal Pictures UK)

Actors & Directors

Karl Freund
Zita Johann
Arthur Byron
David Manners
Edward Van Sloan
Boris Karloff

Release date: 2003-05-19
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £2.99

Review The Mummy [1932] / Universal Pictures UK:

You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. Im-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. Once freed, Im-Ho-Tep takes on the appropriately evil alias Ardath Bey and gets to the task of resurrecting his ancient lover-which will, of course, require a living human surrogate. While the premise may sound formulaic, The Mummy in fact turns out to be bracingly weird, relying on atmospheric creepiness rather than on jump-out-and-scare-you effects. Boris Karloff gives a terrific performance as Im-Ho-Tep. He has all the malevolence the film requires, but also manages subtler touches; the expression in his eyes as he is wrapped in preparation for being buried alive is absolutely chilling. [+]

Instead of forcing him to do all the tedious shambling around that so many mummies resort to, the filmmakers have wisely given Im-Ho-Tep/Ardath Bey a nearly living appearance once he's cleaned up and has a few psychic powers to boot, making him a potent adversary. Stock up on ace bandages and prepare for a good spooky evening. -Ali Davis.

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Bedlam [1946] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Anna Lee
Boris Karloff
Billy House
Mark Robson
Ian Wolfe
Richard Fraser

Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £8.99

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Review Visionary Comms. Ltd. / Mystery Of The Wax Museum [1933]

Mystery Of The Wax Museum [1933] (Visionary Comms. Ltd.)

Actors & Directors

Michael Curtiz|Lionel Atwill|Fay Wray|Glenda Farrell

Release date: 1996-08-19
Run time: 76 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who The E-Space Trilogy [1963]

Doctor Who The E-Space Trilogy [1963] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Peter Moffatt
Peter Grimwade
Paul Joyce
Tom Baker

Release date: 1997-11-03
Run time: 281 min.
RRP: ~~£34.99~~
Price: £90.00

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Review Connoisseur Video / Weekend [1968]

Weekend [1968] (Connoisseur Video)

Actors & Directors

Jean Yanne
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Luc Godard
Valérie Lagrange
Mireille Darc
Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Run time: 95 min.
RRP: ~~£15.99~~
Price: £17.50

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Review 4 Front Video / First Men In The Moon [1964]

First Men In The Moon [1964] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Norman Bird
Lionel Jeffries
Miles Malleson
Nathan Juran
Edward Judd
Martha Hyer

Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Lumiere Pictures / Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966]

Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966] (Lumiere Pictures)

Actors & Directors

Barbara Shelley
Suzan Farmer
Francis Matthews
Terence Fisher
Christopher Lee
Andrew Keir

Release date: 1995-02-27
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £2.60

Review Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966] / Lumiere Pictures:

As the third in what became a series of eight, Prince of Darkness was distinguished among the Hammer Dracula movies for several reasons. It was the third and last directed by Terence Fisher and his familiarity with the mythos and studio practices meant the rushed production still came out looking spectacular in places. Moving into the tail end of the 1960s, Hammer looked for ways of cost cutting: the film's dramatic finale on a frozen river takes place on a two-for-one set being used simultaneously for another shoot. This was also the series entry that included a substitute for the Renfield character missing from the first movie. Thorley Walters as Ludwig is a colourful cameo and that's also all that can be said of Christopher Lee. Despite top billing, the mute monster occupies but a fraction of the overall on-screen time. The real frights come from gaunt butler Klove who scares the life (literally) out of hapless travellers Alan, Charles, Helen and Diana. Surely their fate would ensure no-one else took the mountain pass to Carlsbad? But only two years later, audiences discovered Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. On the DVD: apart from scene access there's nothing making use of the DVD format here. The 2. [+]

55:1 presentation is certainly welcome, and the mono audio somehow feels appropriate. -Paul Tonks.

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Robots of Death [1986] [1963]

Doctor Who - The Robots of Death [1986] [1963] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Michael E. Briant
Tom Baker
Louise Jameson

Release date: 1995-02-13
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: ~~£7.99~~
Price: £3.99

Review Doctor Who - The Robots of Death [1986] [1963] / 2 Entertain Video:

By Tom Baker's third season in the role the actor had become firmly established in the minds of many fans as the definitive Doctor. First broadcast in early 1977, "Robots of Death" follows on directly from "Face of Evil", which was writer Chris Boucher's debut and also that of Louise Jameson's Leela, the Doctor's most shapely companion (a kind of Neanderthal Seven of Nine if you will). Boucher's second Who story concerns an isolated mining ship on which a series of inexplicable deaths take place-although as the Doctor opines, "nothing is inexplicable, only unexplained". The Doctor and Leela inevitably become embroiled in events, which soon turn into a sci-fi murder-mystery: imagine Isaac Asimov crossed with Agatha Christie in a Frank Herbert Dune-like setting. Add an undercover robot sent by "the company" and the claustrophobic, not to say deadly setting of the mining ship and there is a fascinating foreshadowing of Alien, too. It is tightly plotted, intelligent Saturday teatime entertainment (something that was possible then but is now an unthinkable oxymoron) with a typically strong cast of redoubtable thesps in supporting roles (not to mention extravagant costumes and garish make-up). There may be no Daleks or Cybermen, but this is vintage Who nevertheless. -Mark Walker.

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Doctor Who - The Daleks (Limited Edition tin: The Chase[1965]/Remembrance of the Daleks[1988])

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