“Kinder der Eisigen Dunkelheit!” If those words don’t give you a chill, you may be one of ‘The Damned.’ Joseph Losey’s fascinatingly morbid reflection on atomic terror was too much for England in 1961, wasn’t released in the U.S. for four full years, and then only after being shorn of nine minutes of footage. An ‘impossible’ Cold War scenario puts military authority on the same moral plane as delinquent street thugs. Losey transplants his subversive sensibility to England, and the result is one of the top political sci-fi tales of all time.
These are the Damned
Blu-ray
Explosive Media GmbH
1961 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 95 min. / Street Date June 13, 2019 /Sie Sind Verdammt / Available from Amazon.de
Starring: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed, Walter Gotell, James Villiers, Tom Kempinski, Kenneth Cope, Brian Oulton, Rachel Clay, Caroline Sheldon, Rebecca Dignam, Siobhan Taylor, Nicholas Clay.
Cinematography:...
These are the Damned
Blu-ray
Explosive Media GmbH
1961 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 95 min. / Street Date June 13, 2019 /Sie Sind Verdammt / Available from Amazon.de
Starring: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed, Walter Gotell, James Villiers, Tom Kempinski, Kenneth Cope, Brian Oulton, Rachel Clay, Caroline Sheldon, Rebecca Dignam, Siobhan Taylor, Nicholas Clay.
Cinematography:...
- 7/6/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Joseph Losey doesn't normally make trendy, lighthearted genre films, and in this SuperSpy epic we find out why -- an impressive production and great music don't compensate for a lack of pace and dynamism, not to mention a narrow sense of humor. Yet it's a lounge classic, and a perverse favorite of spy movie fans. Modesty Blaise Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics 1966 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 119 min. / Street Date August 23, 2016 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Michael Craig, Clive Revill, Alexander Knox, Rossella Falk, Scilla Gabel, Tina Marquand Cinematography Jack Hildyard Production Designer Richard MacDonald, Jack Shampan Film Editor Reginald Beck Original Music John Dankworth Written by Evan Jones from a novel by Peter O'Donnell and a comic strip by Jim Holdaway Produced by Joseph Janni Directed by Joseph Losey
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When I first reviewed a DVD of Modesty Blaise fourteen years ago,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When I first reviewed a DVD of Modesty Blaise fourteen years ago,...
- 7/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
For Halloween, we celebrate The Simpsons' best Treehouse Of Horror stories, feat. zombies, Hitchcock and Kubrick spoofs and more...
“Nothing seems to bother my kids but tonight's show, which I totally wash my hands of, is really scary.”
For anyone who grew up watching The Simpsons, the Treehouse Of Horror Halloween specials are an annual horror staple, from spooky couch gag to horror-themed credits. You can learn an awful lot of things just from watching the show, but for younger audiences, these episodes gave us our introduction to certain iconic horror stories.
Having ditched the early framing device of the family telling scary stories to one another, with Springfielders cast in key roles, the format is now closer to a mini-anthology of terror with three stories that take place outside of canon. This has usually given the writers licence to be more gruesome and outlandish than in the regular series,...
“Nothing seems to bother my kids but tonight's show, which I totally wash my hands of, is really scary.”
For anyone who grew up watching The Simpsons, the Treehouse Of Horror Halloween specials are an annual horror staple, from spooky couch gag to horror-themed credits. You can learn an awful lot of things just from watching the show, but for younger audiences, these episodes gave us our introduction to certain iconic horror stories.
Having ditched the early framing device of the family telling scary stories to one another, with Springfielders cast in key roles, the format is now closer to a mini-anthology of terror with three stories that take place outside of canon. This has usually given the writers licence to be more gruesome and outlandish than in the regular series,...
- 10/29/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Following on from their antics in the preceding 2011 picture, The Smurfs have returned with a sequel, as they embark on an adventure with the ultimate aim of defeating the evil wizard Gargamel, before he finds the formula to turn all of his wicked creations blue and thus infiltrate the Smurf village. Problem is, the only people made to feel blue, are parents who have shelled out on a ticket to see this with their kids.
Trying and desperately failing to get hold of the devastatingly powerful Smurf essence, Gargamel (Hank Azaria) concocts a new plan, to create his own Smurfs called the Naughties, to go undercover in their world and assist their master in harnessing all of the essence he needs. However once he discovers that only a real Smurf can trick them, he needs to get his hands on the secret spell that Papa Smurf (Jonathan Winters) had used...
Trying and desperately failing to get hold of the devastatingly powerful Smurf essence, Gargamel (Hank Azaria) concocts a new plan, to create his own Smurfs called the Naughties, to go undercover in their world and assist their master in harnessing all of the essence he needs. However once he discovers that only a real Smurf can trick them, he needs to get his hands on the secret spell that Papa Smurf (Jonathan Winters) had used...
- 7/30/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Good Glavin! Everyone’s favourite Jerry Lewis-sounding mad scientist, Professor Frink, gets his own one-shot comic in “Professor Frink Fantastic Science Fictions #1”. Made up of three stories, the first – “Frink Sinatra!” – takes its cue from a sketch in a Simpsons episode where Frink drank a potion and became a suave loverboy. Here the potion gets into Springfield’s water supply turning the townspeople into Rat Pack-era figures wearing tuxes and sloshing martinis.
The second story is “Hook, Line & Frinker” where Frink plays god using the three-eyed fish, Blinky, as his test subject. He speeds up the fish’s evolution to the point where Blinky begins reproducing at a massive rate and soon the town is overrun by Blinkys with legs! The third and final story utilises the 3D glasses, or “Frink-O-Matic Goggles”, you get with this comic. Frink and Bart get shot by a laser and are transported...
The second story is “Hook, Line & Frinker” where Frink plays god using the three-eyed fish, Blinky, as his test subject. He speeds up the fish’s evolution to the point where Blinky begins reproducing at a massive rate and soon the town is overrun by Blinkys with legs! The third and final story utilises the 3D glasses, or “Frink-O-Matic Goggles”, you get with this comic. Frink and Bart get shot by a laser and are transported...
- 3/5/2013
- by Noel Thorne
- Obsessed with Film
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