To celebrate the launch of his book - A Bloke Down the Pub Bangs on About Hammer Horror - We asked The Bloke Down The Pub, our resident Hammer Horror expert, what his Top 5 Hammer Films are.

Jon Cross talks with author, blogger, podcaster and direct to video connoisseur, Matt Poirier all about his new novel, the movie Critters, Dan Aykroyd’s music, Nazi game shows, red head discrimination and more.

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.

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, lover of all things Hammer, is realising just because you don’t have the best boss doesn’t mean you can’t do good work in Hammer’s 1963 film, Maniac.

In the month of its 25th Anniversary, contributor to the site, TF Parent, brings us a look back at the meta horror film that started 90s meta horror, revitalised a franchise and allowed an original filmmaker to respond to the sequels that were out of his control, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.

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.

Jon Cross and Jim Wallace watch some women, 2 of which are famous people’s daughters, get attacked by blind, albino sharks amongst the Mayan ruins of Mexico in 47 Meters Down: Uncaged

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!

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.

Our Hammer loving Bloke Down The Pub is done with debating whether or not it’s strictly a Hammer film and instead wants to talk about what kind of film 1961’s The Shadow of the Cat is!

This week we return with a slash and manage to squeeze our Halloween episode just in under the wire. Jim Wallace and Jon Cross talk Halloween 2018 and we play the new rockin' sounds of the new album from The Big Heist, MO75!

Our excellent movie maven, Lisa Gullickson went to Fantastic Fest and, after a screening of Halloween (2018), came back with this great think piece on the nature of the victim in slasher films…

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.

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

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.

Our Hammer loving Bloke Down The Pub is discovering a happy accident amongst the bad madness in 1968's The Lost Continent

Lisa Gullickson looks at how, for slasher films, the worm may finally be turning in her review of the smart, sassy, horror comedy Tragedy Girls. 

Michael Campochiaro looks at the enduring - and still timely - cult classic horror/action film from the minds of Larry Cohen and William Lustig, Maniac Cop, starring Bruce Campbell, Tom Atkins and Robert Z'Dar.

Lisa looks at another Horror Musical and how eerily relevant it is today, as it ever was. Directed by Brian DePalma, with Music by Paul Williams and starring Jessica Harper, it's Phantom of the Paradise!