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Dark Side of the Moon

We’ve referred to Dark Side of the Moon in several previous reviews, so it’s probably time it got its own screening. Let’s …

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 …

Creature

I don’t know why Evelyn wants to watch this; I’m just fascinated to see Klaus Kinski in a film not directed by Werner Herzog. …

Millennium

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

Anaconda

Here at the Dunwich Farmers Market we’re big fans of the late Roger Ebert, and Roger Ebert is a sucker for old-school …

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 …

2010: Moby Dick

I try to grade B-movies for originality, but there are limits. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a gigantic whale pile-drive a …

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, …

Ghost Ship

Ghost Ship belongs to the venerable tradition of haunted ship movie (Alien being the best example), with the added twist that Satanic …