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Blu-ray Review: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

When Mary Shelley published Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus) in 1818, she couldn’t have envisaged just how popular her creation would turn out to be. How it would go on…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Mummy

There was a time, before the internet and globalisation, when Egyptology felt exciting and exotic. Much of this can be attributed to Empire, with Britain and France, in particular, having…

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Psychological horror continues to be the scariest and most compelling sub-genre because human imaginations can conjure up all manner of terrors. People have been labelled ‘insane’ for many reasons over…

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Blu-Ray Review: The House That Dripped Blood

Whilst today the name Hammer Horror is known all around the world, it was far from being the only British film production company which was making world-class horror during the…

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Blu-Ray Review: Hammer Volume One: Fear Warning

Hammer Volume One: Fear Warning brings together four Hammer horror productions released in the first half of the 1960s. They are four very different tales of fear, curses, madness and…

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Blu-Ray Review: Hammer Horror Collection One

For two decades, beginning in the mid-1950s, ‘Hammer Horror’ was the epitome of genre cinema in the UK. With a cast of familiar faces (including Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and…

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Blu-Ray Review: Torture Garden

Two of the greatest authors of terror, H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, revelled in the medium of short stories. The format lends itself to the horror genre, allowing directors…

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