Leo McKern

X the Unknown (1956)

X the Unknown (1956)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 25, 2015Radioactive Blob Amok
An early Hammer film, an attempt to exploit the success of their Quatermass films. This prefigures the menace of The Blob by a couple of years (while adding a few dashes of the atomic monster fad) but comes with a stark b/w urgency that makes this by far the better film
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The Omen (1976)

The Omen (1976)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 8, 2001The Biblical End of the World/The Anti-Christ
This is where all the cliches of Devil Children began. A big hit among the 1970s occult boom, this is essentially Sunday tabloid Christianity – a lurid, doom-filled take on Book of Revelation End Times prophecies that moves with a slick polish and a series of schlocky deaths every few minutes
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Ladyhawke (1985)

Ladyhawke (1985)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 7, 2001Mediaeval Fantasy/Lovers Under Animal Transformation Curse
Beautifully made Richard Donner mediaeval fantasy with two lovers suffering a curse that transforms them into animals only able to touch in person for a second at dusk and dawn each day
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