Having finally written up that long post about Nosferatu, I now want to plough through as many of the other films I've seen since then as possible, before they all get entirely forgotten. Some are ones I tweeted about at the time, so I'm handling those by copying and pasting the tweets here. Others are another new phenomenon - films I've watched ( Read more... )

Onwards with the Cellar Club tweet-alongs... Films 6 to 9 of 2022 were a bunch of Hammer vampire rewatches connected with the live webcast I did about them, and I wrote those up separately at the time ( LJ / DW). So this entry covers 10 onwards.

( 10. Burnt Offerings (1961), dir. Dan Curtis, broadcast 18 February )

It's Easter Sunday, and I am transferring a few more Cellar Club Twitter threads over here so I can find them more easily in the future. I really want to get up to date with these so that they're no longer hanging over me and I feel like I can watch new films of my own choosing.

( 1. Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), dir. Vernon Sewell, broadcast 7 January )

It's time to capture a few more of my Cellar Club movie tweet-alongs. Do scroll on by if it's not your bag.

( 15. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974), dir. Dan Curtis, broadcast 22 October )

In September 2021, Talking Pictures TV launched the Cellar Club, a Friday-night horror / SF triple-bill introduced and hosted by Caroline Munro. Usually they start with a good solid classic, followed up by two more films which are - shall we say? - usually more deservedly obscure. For the first three weeks, the top-billed movies were Hammer's ( Read more... )