Die! Die! My Darling! AKA Fanatic
Our Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is back and hypothesising just what goes into the development process of a Hammer Film and wishing that Hammer had signed Tallulah Bankhead to a 10 picture deal because of her excellent presence in 1965’s Die! Die! My Darling! AKA Fanatic.
The Horror of Frankenstein
Can you truly enjoy a movie that you objectively know is terrible and can anyone ever really step into Cushing and Lee’s shoes? That’s what our Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is wondering when it comes to 1970’s The Horror of Frankenstein starring Ralph Bates, Kate O’Mara and David Prouse.
Episode 325 - Dirty Knights' Work AKA Trial by Combat AKA A Choice of Weapons
We talk the last of our current run of Donald Pleasence movies, Dirty Knights' Work AKA Trial by Combat AKA A Choice of Weapons, a thoroughly British comedy drama about a bunch of wannabe toffs taking dress up too far and then we make an Eric Idle based decision that could end the podcast for ever!!
Stop Me Before I Kill!
The English and the French - boy is there a complicated relationship! It’s one that our resident Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down the Pub, discusses in his latest review for the 1960 relationship horror, Stop Me Before I Kill!
The Old Dark House
The Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is embracing the goofy and offering a hand across the ocean to cinematic huckster William Castle and his 1963 collaboration with Hammer, The Old Dark House.
The Snorkel
The Bloke Down The Pub, our Hammer Horror fanatic, ruminates on how casting can prove so vitally important to presenting a strong idea well, especially where The Snorkel, from 1958, is concerned.
Four Sided Triangle
When we need him most, the Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down The Pub, is back and this time he’s gone back to the beginning, to when Hammer Films took their first tentative steps in to the realm genre film with the 1953’s Sci-Fi effort Four Sided Triangle. What did they learn, what mistakes were made? read on…
Blinded by the Light
Aaron Carruthers is back and taking a look at the new Blu-Ray/DVD release of Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light.
The Reptile
Our resident Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down the Pub, is back and discussing both the upsides and downsides of the years in which Hammer movies were made versus the present time, especially with how it relates to the lighting in 1966’s The Reptile.
Interview with William McGregor - Director of Gwen
Jon Cross talks to William McGregor the Director of new, British, folk horror film, Gwen. Gwen is released in the U.S. in theaters, on VOD and Digital HD on August 16th, 2019.
The House That Dripped Blood
Aaron Carruthers looks at the new Second Sight Films Blu-Ray release of the Amicus produced, horror classic, The House That Dipped Blood starring genre stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt.
Episode 286 - Wild Rose
Jon is joined by his amazing wife Kimberly to talk the new British/Scottish film Wild Rose starring the incredible Jessie Buckley and Julie Walters.
Avengement
Jon Cross reviews the latest collaboration between director Jesse V Johnson and actor Scott Adkins. A hard hitting, London, gangster, revenge story with an electrifying central performance.
These are the Damned
The Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is fascinated by what people had to worry about in the sixties while relishing in the apocalypse, thanks to 1962 film They Are The Damned featuring Oliver Reed.
Interview with J.E.A. Wallace AKA the Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub
Jon Cross sits down with his After Movie Diner Podcast co-host, published poet, friend and recently revealed The Bloke Down The Pub, our Hammer Horror reviewer, J.E.A. Wallace to talk Hammer films, sci-fi poetry, storytelling and creativity.
Dracula AKA The Horror of Dracula
For his 50th Hammer Horror review, The Bloke Down The Pub talks about why 1958’s Dracula AKA Horror of Dracula remains the quintessential Hammer film and the benchmark by which all others are measured.
Also we reveal The Bloke Down The Pub’s true identity!!!
The Vampire Lovers
The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, sometimes does things a bit backward, like reviewing the first part of “The Karnstein Trilogy “, 1970's The Vampire Lovers, last. Delight as he struggles not to go on and on about bleedin’ Tudor Gates!
Quatermass and the Pit
Our resident Hammer fanatic, The Bloke Down the Pub, wrestles with bonkers plot biscuits and the looming spectre of the BBC in his review of 1967’s Quatermass and the Pit AKA Five Million Years to Earth.