A couple of years ago, a Twitter #ThisIsYourFilm was making the rounds where you had to choose your favourite movie from every year you’ve been alive. Well, it’s come back round again so here, revised and updated, are my favourite movies from every year I’ve been alive. At least it’s still favouritemovies and not ‘best’ movies otherwise this could have taken forever. So, without further ado, for…

Posted as part of Moon In Gemini‘s ‘The Greatest Film I’ve Never Seen Blogathon’.

I’ve been meaning to watch “Young Frankenstein” for years. When I was younger – and more foolish – I think I was put off by the fact it was in black and white. Given how much I loved “Blazing Saddles”, “To Be Or Not To Be” and “High Anxiety” it’s the only explanation I can come up with, so Moon In Gemini’s ‘The…

Those of you who prefer to refer to “The Witch” as “The VVitch” will be delighted to know that you can refer to this curate’s egg of a horror movie as “Blood For Dracvla” if you wish. Be warned, though, that may be the sole appeal of this pretentious, weirdly bucolic spin on the legend of Dracula.

Ailing and infirm, Dracula (Udo Keir) accepts that he must leave his Transylvanian homestead in…

Absolutely not a film to be judged by today’s neo-puritan standards, “Vampira” (released as “Old Dracula” in the US to cash in on the recent success of “Young Frankenstein”) is steeped in the saucy, cheeky and, yes, casually racist and sexist humour of the early seventies but taken on its own terms, it has a certain amusing charm, thanks in large part to David Niven’s wonderfully elegant Count…

Devoid of their Dracula, Hammer House Of Horror cast around for something else to stake their vampire franchise to. I’m guessing screenwriter Don Houghton must have been listening to the radio in his office One can only imagine that the radio was playing in writer Don Houghton’s Bray Studios office as he contemplated a blank sheet of paper and a ninth Dracula movie. Maybe Carl Douglas deserves a…

There’s a whole generation of film fans for whom Jack Palance is either Curly Washburn from “City Slickers” (and, to a lesser extent Duke Washburn from “City Slickers II: The Legend Of Curly’s Gold”) or the excessively nasal-breathy Carl Grissom in Tim Burton’s Batman and although he may seem something of an odd pick for the role of Dracula, he’s actually kind of perfect.

Transylvania, 1897.…

So…with it being my birthday, I figured why not do a post around the Twitter hashtag #ThisIsYourFilm where you choose your favourite movie from every year you’ve been alive. Piece of piss, right? Won’t take that long. Oh boy, was I wrong. Even now, as I’m writing this opening preamble, I’m still second-guessing some of my choices, especially for the decade from 1984 to 1994. At least it’s…

Finally released on Special Edition Arrow Blu Ray on the 14th September, “Zardoz” is one of the Seventies’ most bizarre dystopian sci-fi curiosities (in a decade brimming with them), and possibly one of the strangest movies ever to come from a major studio. Coming off the disappointment of a proposed adaptation of “The Lord Of The Rings”, John Boorman opted to write, produce and direct a low…

Encouraged by the success of “Live And Let Die” and the public’s embracing of Roger Moore’s take on 007, United Artists were keen to keep up the momentum and pressed Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to fast track the next Bond movie. Troubled by behind the scenes problems and a lack of preparation time, “The Man With The Golden Gun” came perilously close to killing the golden goose. When MI6…