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The Peter Cushing Scrapbook - A Centenary Celebration 22 Mar 2013 | 11:52 pm
There are two types of people. One, let’s call them: Me, who lead a busy life and barely manage to write a measly blog post. Two, let’s call them: Wayne Kinsey, who lead an even busier and more dema...
Mountain of the Cannibal God (IT, 1978) 2 Feb 2013 | 12:40 am
I recently discussed this film with an online buddy and wanted to point him towards my little blog review here, just to notice that I had a review online on my older, now-defunct Hammer Glamour site b...
Where is the Ghoul? 30 Jan 2013 | 01:11 pm
Has it ever struck you that we have no idea where The Ghoul is set? Me neither, until relatively recently. But when you watch a film as often as I’ve watched this equally beloved and maligned Tyburn s...
Christopher Gullo: The Films of Donald Pleasence (Review) 23 Nov 2012 | 09:03 pm
One often gets the impression that little is left to uncover when it comes to book projects pertaining to classic horror and fantastic cinema. It frequently feels that publishers are clutching at stra...
Christopher Gullo: The Films of Donald Pleasence 26 Sep 2012 | 03:07 am
Christopher Gullo is a good buddy of mine and somewhere up there in the world's Top 10 of Peter Cushing Fans. Ever since the late 1990s we've been communicating about the Gentle Man of Horrors. in 200...
John Hamilton: X-Cert 9 Sep 2012 | 07:06 pm
Let's see... We have books on Hammer. Lots of them. We have an excellent overview over Amicus courtesy of Little Shoppe of Horrors #20 and a controversial Dark Side publication Amicus: The Studio Th...
Hammer hosts YouTube Channel 9 Sep 2012 | 04:23 pm
For the last month Hammer Films have started hosting their own YouTube channel. It's well worth checking out as on top of clips, trailers and previews it also features the following full-length Hammer...
Wayne Kinsey/Gordon Thomson: Hammer Locations 4 Sep 2012 | 03:06 am
If anyone ever needs a definition of what constitutes a niche market book, point them to Wayne Kinsey's and Gordon Thomson's new publication about the Hammer Locations. This is definitely not anythin...
Peveril Publishing.... a new home for Hammer books 20 Jul 2012 | 04:31 am
I know, I know, I do believe that books about Hammer have probably reached saturation level. Whereas I was previously excited about *any* new publication that came along it is safe to say now that wi...
Wanted for dissertation: Hammer Fans of a certain age 9 Jul 2012 | 04:54 am
I just got contacted by Joshua Searle who is a student at Portsmouth University and currently writing a dissertation concerning the Hammer Horror films of the 1950s and 1960s. He is very much interest...
