The Terror of Dr Hichcock (1962)
Jun 21, 2001Italian Gothic
Influential if possibly overrated work in the Italian Gothic cycle of the 1960s. There’s the haunted figure of Barbara Steele and rich atmosphere, even if the plot doesn’t make much sense
Harriet Medin
The Spectre (1963)
Feb 17, 2022Italian Gothic
Another work of brooding Italian Gothic featuring oodles of atmosphere and the genre’s indisputable queen Barbara Steele as a wife haunted by a dead husband
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Aug 6, 2000Future Road Race/Black Comedy
Satiric hit produced by Roger Corman, a spoof of Rollerball, with David Carradine as a driver in a futuristic road race where points are won by running down pedestrians. Also featuring a young unknown Sylvester Stallone
The Bermuda Triangle (1979)
Mar 20, 2019Bermuda Triangle and Pseudo-Science Documentary
A documentary that purports to examine the mystery of the disappearances in the so-called Bermuda Triangle but soon dives off into an hilarious series of claims involving UFOs, Atlantis, time warps and The Philadelphia Experiment