Performance (1970)

Continuing to backtrack through the work of director Nicolas Roeg, and I didn’t realise he co-directed Performance (1970) with its writer Donald Cammell. First, I was surprised to see the typically urbane and upper crust James Fox convincingly play a cockney gangster, a real sadistic rotter who gets into a bit of sticky bother with […]

The Brides Of Dracula (1960)

Back into the vaults of Hammer Studios and viewing for the first time, The Brides Of Dracula (1960). There’s no Dracula, no Christopher Lee. Instead, a school teacher (Yvonne Monlaur), travelling to her new school, inadvertently spends the night at the castle of Baroness Meinster (Martita Hunt) and unwittingly frees the Baroness’ imprisoned golden haired […]

The Devils (1971)

Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) has been a notorious prospect to me, a film that received considerable controversy on release, was a box office hit in the UK, yet was also banned in a few places and a director’s cut has still not been released by Warner Brothers despite its critical reappraisal over the years. […]