East of Piccadilly (1940)
Jun 28, 2002Psycho-Thriller/Apartment Building of Weird Tenants
An obscure British thriller about murders in an apartment building of eccentric tenants. This turns into something really quite strange
Niall MacGinnis
Night of the Demon (1957)
Jan 4, 2001Occult Curse
Classic occult film from former Val Lewton associate Jacques Tourneur that sits in a wonderfully ambiguous place where we cannot be certain whether the supernatural is real or imagined
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959)
Feb 25, 2006Jungle Hero
One of the best of all Tarzan films made under producer Sy Weintraub who dispensed with the cutsie elements of the earlier films and focused on gritty adventure
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Sep 2, 2003Greek Myth Adventure
Stop-motion animator Ray Harruhausen takes on Greek Myth and creates one of his finest works. Harryhausen's effects are at the absolute peak of their game and he delivers some astonishing creations
Island of Terror (1966)
Jun 28, 2002Giant Virus Invasion
Director Terence Fisher made his name at Hammer Films but in the 1960s broke away from the company to make a trilogy of SF films, which are regarded as his least effective work. This features the novelty of a giant virus creature but Fisher fails to generate much suspense