I did something I've been meaning to do for a while today: grabbed Wikipedia's list of Hammer films and went thought it bolding all the ones I'd seen and additionally noting those I've seen in the cinema (well - on a big screen, not always in a traditional cinema). The answers are that I've seen 68 out of 175, mainly but not exclusively gothic ( Read more... )

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 )

The pandemic has put a bit of a hole in my movie-watching, mainly because I was doing so much of it with
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I recorded this off the Horror Channel relatively recently, and watched it last weekend. The story is more or less what you would assume from the title and the time, involving a group of white western explorers who go searching after the 'Yeti' in the Himalayas, and the local monastery community and guides with whom they interact. The Hammer film ( Read more... )

I'm planning to synchro-watch another Hammer film with the lovely
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Soon after lockdown began,
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I'm uncomfortably aware that I haven't written anything other than WIDAWTW posts for over a month, or indeed commented much on other people's entries. The approach of term coincided with the local constituency party that I am chair of having to go into high alert due to the likelihood of a General Election being called at any moment, so it has all ( Read more... )

I saw the first Iron Sky film in the cinema when it came out in 2012 ( LJ / DW). This one, the sequel, did get a cinema release, but in Leeds only one cinema offered a showing if enough people signed up in advance and not enough did, so
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This book was my response to the 'Doesn't belong to me' prompt when I did the book a day meme back in June. I hadn't actually read it yet at that point, but had spotted it on my Dad's bookshelves, and felt it deserved to be read in this year of all years. The cover looks like this, and was at once promising and off-putting:


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At the end of May, my friend
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