horror

  • The Tigon Shorts

    The Tigon Shorts

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    Our contract with Tigon included four horror’s ‘The Sorcerers’, ‘The Blood Beast Terror’, The Blood on Satan’s Claw’ and  ‘The Creeping Flesh’ and as what seemed to be the thing to do in those days, as soon as the feature had been released a 200′ edition was produced. I edited the short from ‘The Sorcerers’,…

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  • The Blood Beast Terror

    The Blood Beast Terror

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    One of the titles from our contract with Tigon and wasn’t on par with the other horrors we picked up at the time. It has  a solid cast with Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham and ‘Doctor Who’ regular Kevin Stoney, but they are all wasted in what is a very poor effort indeed. Peter…

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  • The Legend of Dracula

    The Legend of Dracula

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    This was just one of the many titles we picked up from Norman Salter at his one man business Viscom, in Wardour Street.  Originally titled ‘In Search of Dracula’, it was an 82 minute documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject. It was actually an eerie, but…

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  • Island of Terror

    Island of Terror

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    This was one of a number of titles that Derek had picked up from producer Tom Blakeley, in the early 70s. It starred Peter Cushing, Edward Judd and Carol Gray and had been available on standard 8 for some time.  Shortly after I joined Derann in 1975 he had had a super 8 neg made.…

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  • The Severed Arm

    The Severed Arm

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    This rather lame horror thriller was another film we’d picked up from Grand National. The title and its premise sound pretty good, with its plotline concerning five men who find themselves trapped in a cave after a rockfall and resort to cutting off the arm off one of their number in order to avoid starvation.…

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  • Night of Bloody Horror

    Night of Bloody Horror

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    I’m almost ashamed to admit that this was one that I never got around to watching on super 8 and only managed to see a few years ago on one of those cheap Mill Creek DVD compilations… and it turned out to be pretty average fare of the 1970s! I reckon it was on the…

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  • Virgin Witch

    Virgin Witch

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    Another Tigon production and if I’m honest this was chosen just to make it a six title contract. However saying that here is a film that had witchcraft, plenty of luscious lovelies and a fair sprinkling of naked flesh… not to mention a touch of lesbianism! It starred Ann and Vicki Michelle (real life sisters),…

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  • Night of the Bloody Apes

    Night of the Bloody Apes

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    This Mexican horror from 1969, originally titled ‘La Horripilante Bestia Humana’ has its fair share of cheap gore and a liberal helping of female wrestlers! It also featured footage of an actual human heart transplant operation in two separate scenes and it was these that added it to the video nasty list, where it remained…

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