Saturday started with The Toxic Avenger, the Troma classic. Unfortunately, this was a museum archive print so the then UK theatrical release meaning it was cut to shreds but still enjoyable in that hammy, schlock horror way, even if some bits were a bit iffy by today's standards. Overall fun, though.
Next up, Captain Clegg, a classic Hammer feature ( Read more... )

First, I caught the first half our of Flesh and Blood, a documentary about the history of Hammer. This would have been rather interesting, especially with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing narrating and it being a proper cut (not what shown on TV) but I really wanted to see Big Trouble in Little China in 70mm, one of my teenage favourites so it was ( Read more... )

The Fantastic Films Weekend is an annual, three-day festival of horror, fantasy and SciFi films at the National Media Museum in Bradford.
I'd arrived already arrived on Thursday evening, had a good night's sleep and was ready for the onslaught of films I was going to watch.
Friday
The first film was Bloodbath at the House of Death. Only knowing ( Read more... )

Yay and w00+, the website is live early this year! Still a bit barren without full schedule and hotel info (I guess it'll be the new Jurys Inn rather than the Midland).
It's the 10th anniversary this year and it looks like it's going to be a classics extravaganza.
Can't wait to see the gang (miss_s_b, matgb, pmoodie and El and the rest of them) again (and I have a ( Read more... )