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Eugene McGing's The Unfolding (2016) is a found footage film that tries to mix the long-in-the-tooth haunted house strand of the form with a background story about impending war. Inevitably, perhaps, it really doesn’t work. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/10/26/t...

One more Hammer video intro from me tonight at the Science and Media Museum in Bradford tonight - this time it's for Terence Fisher's proto surgical horror thriller Stolen Face. share.google/TOgawDTIr1cJ...

If you're in the vicinity of the Science and Media Museum in Bradford tonight, as part of their short season of Hammer screenings they're showing Captain Kronos - though be warned, it comes with a videotaped introduction from me! Brace yourselves... share.google/Qktca8ro3vpX...

Happy Kev is back thanks to those irrepressible Twins of Evil in the latest Hammer Time episode, the last and by far the best of the Karnstein trilogy, one of Hammer's best films of the 70s. Listen here www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer and wherever you usually get your podcasts.

Cracking episode, thanks @eofftv.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social Hated the film. Found it genuinely insipid and painfully boring. That said, you softened me on it slightly (as has been the case with the very few i haven’t liked) with your usual brand of amusement and considered praise.

It's quite literally a blood bath on this week's Hammer Time as we call in on Ingrid Pitt as Countess Dracula (1971). Listen at Hammer share.google/8vaQwjlbpHRs... and in all good podcast outlets.

It's a small field admittedly, but Gorgo (1960) is by far the best of the British giant monster films, as much a tale of motherly love as it is a horror film and with plenty of fun trashing of beloved London landmarks. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/g...

After a week off, Hammer Time's back with a look at Lust for a Vampire including discussion of *that song*, what a repulsive creep the hero is, a guest appearance by the crew and much more besides. Get it in all the usual places (including YouTube) and www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

Today we look at Vampira - not Clive Donner's terrible comedy horror with David Niven as an unlikely Dracula, but rather George Moorse's dreamlike 1971 German television film featuring the first score from electronic music pioneers Tangerine Dream. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/10/06/v...

Pre-Hellraiser (1987), Clive Barker had a tough time of it with the film industry. Rawhead Rex (1986) has been partly rehabilited by folk horror fans but there's less love for his first collaboration director George Pavlou, the hopeless Underworld (1985). eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/u...

With recent reports of rogue AI agents attempting to slip the shackles imposed on them by their creators, Ryan Braund's haunting animation Absolute Denial (2021) is starting to look worryingly like prophecy and warning rather than just science fiction. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/10/04/a...

You're an Italian producer looking to make a James Bond knock-off so what do you do? Well, hire Sean Connery's non-actor brother of course, call your film OK Connery (1967) and stuff the cast full of Bond film alumni. It goes as well as you might expect... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/o...

We've reached The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) on this week's Hammer Time and my grumpiness is off the scale. Becky tries to maintain a sense of balance, I just moan for a couple of hours. I promise it's more fun than it sounds! www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

Well here we are then... Grumpy Kev has finally arrived on Hammer Time as me and Becky take a look at Scars of Dracula (1970). One of us liked it rather more than the other. It should be hard to work out which way around that is... www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

The Black Planet (1982) is an odd animated fable from Australian television about a planet rich in oil, the war-mongering military of a neighbouring planet determined to invade and the feminist and the secret agent trying to stop them. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/t...

We (finally) get to the end of our James Bond series with the very disappointing return of Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of Thunderball (1965) that doesn’t quite cut it. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/n...

The Ghost Galleon (1974) is the third, and least, of Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead quartet, the zombie Templars robbed of their horses and confined to a rather ratty looking of ship which occasionally turns into a toy in a bathtub... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/t...

Dracula Bites the Big Apple (1979) is a student thesis film from the man who went on to make Vamp (1986), a short comedy with a few good gags. Not enough, but it's affable enough in its own cheapjack way. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/d...

Shojun Fukui's 964 Pinocchio (1991) is a batshit crazy, experimental cyberpunk piece about a sex cyborg with erectile dysfunction and the mad woman he meets after being discarded by his frustrated owner. Yes, it really is that weird... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/9...

I've never really been a fan of The Vampire Lovers - but what does Becky make of it? Find out as we enter the full horrors (and not in a good way...) of 1970s in this week's Hammer Time. You know where to find this by now I'm sure, but just in case... www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

The Perfect Woman (1949) is only marginally science fiction. There's a female humanoid robot but she's not in it a great deal and the rest is a rather long-in-the-tooth and only fitfully amusing comedy that must have seemed dated even in 1949. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/t...

Good Lord, something new on EOFFTV Review! Time to resurrect a sporadic series of posts in which I do capsule reviews of some of the best, the worst and the oddest things I've watched this month. Proper reviews back tomorrow. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/i...

And while we're at it, let's take a second look at the greatest of all British kids dystopias, the genuinely chilling and endlessly inventive The Changes (1975). eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2018/09/15/t...

Did I do one of these yesterday? I don't think I did... OK two today, both dystopian thrillers made for British children's television, starting with Noah’s Castle (1980) in which a family struggle to cope in a world beset by chaos. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/n...

We reach the dread year 1970 this week on Hammer Time but it's a good one to start with. The Count is back in Taste the Blood of Dracula and me and Becky agree it's a little gem! In all the usual places, and... www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic Solaris (1972) is one of the masterpieces of science fiction cinema. Deeply intelligent, emotionally satisfying and with one of the most enigmatic endings ever, it remains a powerful and visually stunning piece of work. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/s...

Another randomly chosen older post in lieu of anything new for the time being - let's revisit Peter Hyams' 2010 (1984) which proved to be a better film I'd remembered. It's not 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), but then what is? eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/2...

And how about a second look at extraordinary Japanese apocalyptic thriller Akira (1988), one of the great classics of anime directed by Katsuro Otomo. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2019/11/10/a...

Super busy yesterday so let's have two older review revisits today, starting with Go and Get It (1920), a film long thought lost until it miraculously turned up in an Italian film archive a few years ago. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/g...

Today's blast from past is Murder by Decree (1979), a classic encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. wp.me/p7hzmr-1ng

This week on HAMMER TIME, Kevin and Becky come up against Baron Frankenstein once again as he goes completely off the deep end and proves that he's truly more monstrous than the monsters he created! It's FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED from 1969!

This week on Hammer Time, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave and he's not at all happy about it. Listen at all the usual podcast outlets and here: share.google/OJMAzscMcS9n...

This week Becky and I brave the Goat of Mendes as we look at one of Hammer's best (opinions differ here on just how great it is), The Devil Rides Out (1968). Find it in all the usual places and at www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer.

Something a bit different on Hammer Time this week as Becky and I talk to Hammer expert Marcus Hearn about the legacy of the great Jimmy Sangster. Available in all the usual places including share.google/yyxmU2b5blwq...

Mutzmag: An Appalachian Fairytale (1993) is an obscure short(ish) folk horror tale about a young girl, a witch and a "giant" that very effectively transplants various European folktales into the Appalachian mountains. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/m...

From a time when the BBC were still willing to experiment a bit comes Home (2003), an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's short story The Enormous Space (1989) about a man who cuts himself off from the outside world and goes slowly mad... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/h...

Fernando Durán Rojas' Hot Snake (1978) is a slow moving, unpredictable and moody Mexican western featuring a witch, a solar eclipse, lashings of Italian western-style violence and a corpse that refuses to stay still. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/h...

Jiří Barta's The Pied Piper (1986) is an extraordinary re-imaging of the folk tale as Gothic horror, a dark and relentlessly bleak, yet still gorgeous-looking, tale of greed, betrayal and revenge. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/t...

The longest piece I've written so far is for a film I really don't like at all - Casino Royale (1967). Fans - and there are some - might want to steer clear of this one. You're not going to like it... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/25/c...

If you don't fancy listening to the Hammer Time podcast (if not, what's wrong with you??!), here are some written thoughts of Quatermass and the Pit (1967) you might like instead... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/q...

This week, Becky and I take a look at one of Hammer's very best, the brilliant Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Available in all the usual podcast places and, as usual, at www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

@eofftv.bsky.social got me back on my Nigel Kneale obsession with the Hammer time pod, and recommended the TV show Beasts. Cex came to the rescue! And only cost me £12! It’s gonna get weird.

Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are back in sync this week on Hammer Time as we discuss THE MUMMY'S SHROUD and both agree it's pretty good actually! OUT NOW! 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social

We're going back to Egypt on Hammer Time this week (don't worry, it's better than our last trip there...) as we, to quote the posters, "beware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet!" with The Mummy's Shroud (1967). Listen at all good podcast outlets and here: www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

Me and Becky are back with the Baron in this week's Hammer Time. Will we find more common ground this time? Maybe... maybe not... Available where you get all your podcasts and here: www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer

It took three directors to bring Space Mutiny (1988) to the screen and none of them had any idea how to do anything with it. Legendarily awful, it's littered with continuity errors, odd filming locations and stock shots from Battlestar Galactica... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/s...