It's Easter Sunday, and I am transferring a few more Cellar Club Twitter threads over here so I can find them more easily in the future. I really want to get up to date with these so that they're no longer hanging over me and I feel like I can watch new films of my own choosing.

( 1. Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), dir. Vernon Sewell, broadcast 7 January )

It's been a lovely weekend. I've done some errands, gone shopping, lounged about in lady_lugosi1313's garden, worked out some ideas for a lecture on Dracula I've been asked to deliver, eaten some lovely food and of course live-tweeted the latest Cellar Club film. Just the kinda stuff a girl can do when she's no longer devoting all her evenings and ( Read more... )

It's time to capture a few more of my Cellar Club movie tweet-alongs. Do scroll on by if it's not your bag.

( 15. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974), dir. Dan Curtis, broadcast 22 October )

In September 2021, Talking Pictures TV launched the Cellar Club, a Friday-night horror / SF triple-bill introduced and hosted by Caroline Munro. Usually they start with a good solid classic, followed up by two more films which are - shall we say? - usually more deservedly obscure. For the first three weeks, the top-billed movies were Hammer's ( Read more... )

As mentioned last weekend ( LJ / DW), I'm going to be a guest on a live webcast next Sunday. I spent last weekend rewatching the Hammer vampire films we'll be talking about, and noting down things to discuss about gender, sexuality and subtext in them. But these are films which I've already spent more time than is really healthy geekily over- ( Read more... )

Hey there, LJ / DW. I did All The Things for a few weeks there, and I am really not sure how I will ever get you caught up on it all. But let's have a go at writing about just one Thing - going to see Spartacus on a frankly ENORMOUS screen at the National Media Museum's Widescreen Weekend with
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I watched this last Sunday, choosing it deliberately because I knew it would be fairly undemanding and I had been out late the night before. I knew about it because it had been screened at the Starburst Film Festival in 2018, but had clashed with other things that I and the people I was with wanted to see, so I hadn't been able to watch it at the ( Read more... )

I watched this last night, via a recording which had been waiting around on my Sky box for a good couple of years. It's certainly a very strange film, operating on a level a long way removed from realism. Magic is real; people die and come back to life; someone is seemingly pulled into existence in the field by the other characters hauling on a ( Read more... )

This is the American / British Hammer Productions remake of the Swedish film Let The Right One In (2008), which I watched last night on the Horror Channel. I've seen the Swedish version twice: once while travelling in Australia in 2017 ( LJ / DW) and once at the Hyde Park Picture House in 2019 ( LJ / DW). My previous experience of such remakes had ( Read more... )

The pandemic has put a bit of a hole in my movie-watching, mainly because I was doing so much of it with
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