https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/19/dracula-vs-frankenstein-1972/
Dracula vs Frankenstein (1972) – The EOFFTV Review
Original title: Drácula contra Frankenstein For some of us, Jesus Franco's best work was in the 1960s, particularly when he was working in black and white. By the time he got to the 1970s, his quality control was starting to waver. As the decade drew on, his desire to keep shooting was starting..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/the-wild-world-of-batwoman-1966/
The Wild World of Batwoman (1966) – The EOFFTV Review
Though fandoms of various kinds, particularly science fiction, had existed for several decades, it was in the 1960s when things really started to take off. There were manias for all manner of pop culture throughout the decade from Beatlemania to Dalekmania to Bondmania. Star Trek (1966-1969) was sav..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/jaws-3-d-1983/
Jaws 3-D (1983) – The EOFFTV Review
In 1975, Steven Spielberg's Jaws fundamentally changed mainstream Hollywood. It ushered in the era of the summer blockbuster and consolidated the reputation, already very impressive, of a filmmaker that would go on to dominate American popular cinema for many years to come. Its success demanded..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/15/beatriz-1976/
Beatriz (1976) – The EOFFTV Review
Until relatively recently, the name of Spanish director Gonzalo Suárez was a relatively obscure one outside his home country, though he continued making films in one capacity or another, either as director or writer, until 2021. He made several horror films including La loba y la paloma/The Wolf and..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/14/the-thrill-killers-1964/
The Thrill Killers (1964) – The EOFFTV Review
The Thrill Killers is arguably the best work from Ray Dennis Steckler, a director who operated in that hinterland between the low budget and the amateur. Sandwiched between The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964) and Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1965), it'..
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Sredni Vashtar (1981) – The EOFFTV Review
Saki (H.H. Munro)'s 1812 short story Sredni Vashtar, first published in his short story collection The Chronicles of Clovis (atypically it's a serious piece among mostly lighter-hearted work), has long been a favourite for adaptation into other media. A version was broadcast as part of The..
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) – The EOFFTV Review
At some point in 1977, music impresario Robert Stigwood, owner of The Robert Stigwood Organisation (RSO) had an idea. It was the sort of idea that most people would have dismissed as a fever dream, laughing it off and going back to sleep, but Stigwood was made of sterner stuff. Looking back to 1974 ..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/10/peacock-k
Peacock King (1988) – The EOFFTV Review
Original title: Hung cheuk wong ji Of all of the Hong Kong (or in this case Hong Kong/Japanese) action films that made their way to the west in the wake of the successes of Tsui Hark's Shu Shan: Xin Shu shan jian ke/Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983) and Ching Siu-Tung's Sien lui ..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/dracula-the-dirty-old-man-
Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) (1969) – The EOFFTV Review
Pity poor Dracula. Once he was the Prince of Darkness, a Wallachian nobleman, descendent of Attila the Hun and scourge of polite Victorian society. But by the late 1960s he was on his way to becoming a figure of fun. Abbott and Costello had long since had their moment with the Count and as the&helli..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/08/tales-that-
Tales That Witness Madness (1973) – The EOFFTV Review
The characters in Freddie Francis' abysmal anthology film may indeed 'witness madness' but as a whole the film might just trigger the same condition in many a viewer. The nadir of the British portmanteau film of the 1970s, it's still sometimes mistaken for an Amicus film, a fact ..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/07/hello-down-there-1969/
Hello Down There (1969) – The EOFFTV Review
One of the stranger genre films of 1969 was Hello Down There, an oddball underwater science fiction would-be comedy. The presence of Ricou Browning as the film's underwater sequences director should come as no surprise - he was a past master of all things aquatic, having played the Gill-Man in ..
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Home on the Range (2004) – The EOFFTV Review
Home on the Range, Disney's 45th animated feature film, directed by Will Finn and John Sanford, was originally supposed to have been its 44th but its release was swapped with that of Brother Bear (2003), whose production was accelerated so that its release could tie in with the DVD release of t..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/the-orchard-end-murder-1981/
The Orchard End Murder (1981) – The EOFFTV Review
Christian Marnham's The Orchard End Murder was one of the last - if not the last - examples of that particular kind of supporting film that wasn't quite a full feature but longer than a short. They were more akin to an episode of a television drama series in length if not in content. These..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/04/once-upon-
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019) – The EOFFTV Review
In Inglourious Basterds (2009), Quentin Tarantino set the action in an alternate past, one where the events of World War II play out rather differently, and he does the same trick in the altogether better Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, which, as the title suggests, plays as a tinsel town fairy ta..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/03/megan-is-missing-2011/
Megan is Missing (2011) – The EOFFTV Review
Michael Goi's bleak found footage chiller is a difficult watch on many levels. The subject matter - the abduction, rape, torture and murder of two 14 year old girls - is hard enough but taking Goi's claims for the film to be a warning to young girls about the dangers of the internet, the f..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/02/hrabe-drakula-1971/
Hrabé Drakula (1971) – The EOFFTV Review
Hrabé Drakula (the title translates simply as Count Dracula) is a Czech television adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel, first broadcast on Ceskoslovenská Televize on 22 July 1971. Its director, Anna Procházková, became the first woman to direct Dracula on the screen and she and co-writer Oldrich Zel..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/top-20-most-visited-pages-july-2023/
Top 20 Most Visited Pages – July 2023 – The EOFFTV Review
The monthly round up of what people most fancied on the EOFFTV Review in July. For reasons that continue to baffle me, the shark thriller Frenzy (2018) retains the top spot for the third month running and by a considerable margin. Could it just be that I keep listing it as the most visited page&hell..
https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/the-hellstrom-chronicle-1971
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) – The EOFFTV Review
This bizarre "mockumentary", directed by Ed Spiegel and Walon Green and written by David Seltzer who, a few years later, would write the screenplay for The Omen (1976), inexplicably took home both the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and BAFTA Award for Best Documentary desp..
