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 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.

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.

The Bloke Down The Pub, our Hammer Horror fanatic, can’t believe anyone, let alone the producer, doesn’t love the Christopher Lee starring The Devil Rides Out from 1968.

Jon Cross and Jim Wallace, dastardly denizens of the New York City diner, are back discussing one last Hammer Horror film - Vampire Circus from 1972.

Hosts Jim Wallace and Jon Cross discuss bad bat puppets, ill-advised sex comedy, Christopher Lee's mad face and so much more while reviewing Hammer Horror's Scars of Dracula

Jim Wallace and Jon Cross talk Peter Cushing in The Evil of Frankenstein as part of our on-going Hammer Horror Month.

The Hammer Horror loving Bloke Down The Pub is amazed what Freddie Francis could pull off even when his heart wasn’t into the 1965 film Hysteria starring Robert Webber.

Jon Cross talks to, friend of the site, Mark Burns one of the organisers behind Weekend of the Dead, the UK's premiere George A Romero convention.

Our Hammer loving Bloke Down The Pub is waxing rhapsodic about Hammer’s ever present woods and Michael Horden from 1972's Demons of the Mind.

The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, debates the guilt in "guilty pleasure" sequel of Hammer's long-running Dracula franchise, 1972's Dracula A.D. 1972.

The Bloke Down The Pub is wishing that his beloved Hammer had made a whole slew of Sherlock Holmes movies after watching 1959's The Hound of the Baskervilles starring Peter Cushing, Andre Morell and Christopher Lee.

Jon Cross sits down for a chat, over breakfast, in a diner, with character actor, improv comedian, teacher, director, philosopher, storyteller, voice artist and professional 'that guy' Peter Spellos from Sorority House Massacre 2, Hard To Die, Nightmare on Elm Street 6 and more!

The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, likes the well drawn characters in what turns out to be his favourite of the Hammer Mummy movies, 1967's The Mummy's Shroud.

Our Hammer loving Bloke Down The Pub is shouting "where are the bleedin' dinosaurs!?" and "do something Raquel! Save us!" during 1966's One Million Years B.C.

The Bloke Down The Pub, lover of all things Hammer, talks about the studio stitching all the bits together and finally getting it right with 1974's Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell starring none other than, the exceptional, Peter Cushing.

It doesn't happen often but our Hammer Film loving 'Bloke Down The Pub' struggles to find the point or much entertainment value in 1972's Fear In the Night.

Our, usually, Hammer Horror loving 'The bloke down the pub' is disappointed with Tudor Gates torpedoing Hammer's legacy in the face with the boob-tipped, badly assembled missile that is 1971's Lust For A Vampire.

In our continuing series of articles 'The bloke down the pub' is marvelling at the tentative steps Hammer took to become the Hammer Horror we know and love today in 1956's X-The Unknown.

The sixth of many videos exploring what great horror films you should watch this October (or HORROTOBER as we call it round here). #6 Raw Meat AKA Death Line