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Evelyn Franklin

B-Fest 2014

As the start of term approaches Caity and I are off to our traditional warm-up (hooray for instant traditions), the annual B-Movie …

Alien Predator

Following on from the screening of Creature, tonight’s selection provoked an argument five minutes in about who the hell selected it, and why. Caity having confessed …

Millennium

The late Lord Blake, attacking the unenviable task of evaluating Benjamin Disraeli’s skill as a novelist, recalled the Oxford concept of the …

The Rig

Here’s the pitch: it’s an Alien rip-off set on an oil rig. No, not Proteus. That’s the one with the heroin smugglers. No, not Leviathan either. That’s …

Lifeforce

The B-movie credentials for Lifeforce are staggering. Director? Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist). Producers? Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus of the venerable Cannon Films, …