John Richardson Archives

Black Sunday (1960)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 9, 2000Italian Gothic/Revived Witch's Revenge

Classic work that defined the Italian Gothic cycle of the 1960s and turned Barbara Steele into a cult actress. Mario Bava shoots vivid, incredibly atmospheric scenes in black-and-white in ways that no other director does

Director: Mario Bava

Actors: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Arturo Dominici

Category: Horror

9 August 20004 December 2025 by Roog

She (1965)

Rating: ★★

Jul 31, 2001Lost City/Immortal Queen/Hammer Film

Hammer Films conduct an adaptation of the classic H. Rider Haggard story about the discovery of a lost city and its immortal queen but the epic spectacle never much comes to life

Director: Robert Day

Actors: John Richardson, Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, …

Category: Fantasy

31 July 200127 July 2019 by Roog

One Million Years B.C. (1966)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 11, 2001Cavemen vs Dinosaurs/Prehistoric Drama

Cult stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen made this classic caveman vs dinosaurs film in collaboration with Hammer Films. The work that brought Raquel Welch to prominence as an actress

Director: Don Chaffey

Actors: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Martine Beswick, Robert Brown

Category: Science Fiction

11 February 200129 December 2025 by Roog

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 2, 2001Reincarnation and Clairvoyance Musical

Romantic musical in Barbra Steisand discovers psychic powers and her reincarnated past lives. Despite being a flop, this is a film of oddball charms and features an effervescent Stresiand

Director: Vincente Minelli

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Simon Oakland, …

Category: Fantasy

2 February 200124 January 2025 by Roog

Frankenstein ’80 (1972)

Rating: ★

Mar 15, 2017Modernised Frankenstein Film

This Italian exploitation film was one of the first attempts to try modernising the Frankenstein film. Thus Frankenstein is a doctor stealing corpses from the morgue at a modern hospital

Director: Mario Mancini

Actors: John Richardson, Gordon Mitchell, Renato Romano, Xiro Papas, …

Category: Horror

15 March 201725 January 2026 by Roog

Eyeball (1975)

Rating: ★★

Oct 18, 2018Giallo Film

A giallo film from Umberto Lenzi, best known for creating the Italian cannibal film but Lenzi’s direction is crude and lacking style in comparison to the others working in this genre

Director: Umberto Lenzi

Actors: Martine Brochard, John Richardson, Ines Pellegrini, Mirta Miller, …

Category: Horror

18 October 201825 January 2026 by Roog

Battle of the Stars (1978)

Rating: ★★

Mar 5, 2026Italian Space Opera

The success of Star Wars saw a host of copies made over the next few years. This was one of several low-budget Italian space opera knockoffs of this period, featuring invading aliens from Ganymede

Director: Alfonso Brescia

Actors: John Richardson, Yanti Sommer

Category: Science Fiction

5 March 20265 March 2026 by Roog