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To The Devil A Daughter [1976]

starring: Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott
directed by: Peter Sykes

Release Date January 01, 2007
Occult novelist John Verney(Richard Widmark) is asked by his friend Harry Beddowes(Denholm Elliot) to look after his daughter Catherine whilst she's in London. What Verney does not know is that a group of Satanists lead by the excommunicated priest Father Michael(Christopher Lee) are desperate to get their hands on Catherine as she is required for a hideous ritual to bring the demon Azaroth back into the world. Soon Verney and his friends are fighting for their lives.
This film, Hammer's last feature length horror, is an excellent adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's novel. It is very tense and quite frightening in places, especially as the forces of evil do have the upper hand for most of the film. Richard Widmark as Verney is terrific, maybe ... Read More:

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Steptoe & Son/Steptoe & Son Ride Again [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Carolyn Seymour, Arthur Howard, Victor Maddern
directed by: Cliff Owen, Peter Sykes

Release Date October 12, 2004
this film is a waste of time in ordering.

It is copied and does not work at all on any DVD players. I advise people NOT to buy this!

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Steptoe And Son Ride Again [1973]

starring: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Diana Dors, Milo O'Shea, Neil McCarthy
directed by: Peter Sykes

Release Date August 18, 1997
The 1970s was a strange time for the television sitcom - many found their way onto the big screen. Alas, the change of medium was generally not a good idea. Classic programmes such as 'Are You Being Served?', 'Man About the House', 'On the Buses' and even 'Dad's Army' looked uneasily out-of-place on celluloid. But there was one notable example to the rule and that was the second 'Steptoe and Son' film. The series' stimulating mix of jokes, crudeness, black humour and pathos was kept refreshingly intact. Of course it has dated, but that just adds to the charm. A wonderful film!

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Demons Of The Mind [1971]

starring: Michael Horden, Patrick Magee, Paul Jones, Gillian Hills, Yvonne Mitchell
directed by: Peter Sykes

Release Date January 01, 2007
This is a pretty unknown Hammer film, and I searched for it for a long time before it was released on DVD (the video was deleted years ago!).

So when it was finally released I was rather excited having heard good things about the film.

The feel of the film is classic old Hammer stuff and the performances, paricularly from the young actors playing Emil and Elizabeth, are pretty good.

Its quite a bleak little film though, without a happy ending but I think the dark story should satisfy horror fans, although I don't think the film would appeal to a particularly wide audience these days.

My only complaint would be that the plot is sometimes confusing, but other than that I highly recommend Demons of the ... Read More:

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The Irish R.M. - Series 3

starring: Peter Bowles
directed by: Roy Ward Baker, Peter Sykes

Release Date February 06, 2006
This is a pretty unknown Hammer film, and I searched for it for a long time before it was released on DVD (the video was deleted years ago!).

So when it was finally released I was rather excited having heard good things about the film.

The feel of the film is classic old Hammer stuff and the performances, paricularly from the young actors playing Emil and Elizabeth, are pretty good.

Its quite a bleak little film though, without a happy ending but I think the dark story should satisfy horror fans, although I don't think the film would appeal to a particularly wide audience these days.

My only complaint would be that the plot is sometimes confusing, but other than that I highly recommend Demons of the ... Read More:

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The Irish R.M. - Series 2

starring: Peter Bowles
directed by: Roy Ward Baker, Peter Sykes

Release Date September 12, 2005
This is a pretty unknown Hammer film, and I searched for it for a long time before it was released on DVD (the video was deleted years ago!).

So when it was finally released I was rather excited having heard good things about the film.

The feel of the film is classic old Hammer stuff and the performances, paricularly from the young actors playing Emil and Elizabeth, are pretty good.

Its quite a bleak little film though, without a happy ending but I think the dark story should satisfy horror fans, although I don't think the film would appeal to a particularly wide audience these days.

My only complaint would be that the plot is sometimes confusing, but other than that I highly recommend Demons of the ... Read More:

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Jesus [1979]

starring: Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Joseph Shiloach, Niko Nitai, Mosko Alkalai
directed by: John Krish, Peter Sykes

Release Date November 14, 2000
I tried to watch this with an open mind, but found myself in stitches!

From the opening when a rather underwhelmed Mary, on discovering that she is going to give birth to the Son of God, drones "My soul doth magnify the Lord!" in a way that suggests she has at least a hundred more interesting things to do that day, right through the gorgeously coiffured (seriously, would he really have had a team of hairdressers with him all the time?)Jesus, the performances are so understated that I found it impossible to relate to it at all.

The actor playing Jesus looks as though he was stoned and had to read his script off-camera! The production is beautifully filmed, but several of the actors seemed not to be acting, but just reciting the ... Read More:

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The House In Nightmare Park [1973]

starring: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith, John Bennett
directed by: Peter Sykes

Release Date September 27, 1993
I don't have a clue how film industry executives select their material for dvd production and release, I would like to know, but the way I see it, on quality of enjoyment from a film, this one deserves to be available to that large and knowledgable section of British film lovers to enjoy once again. I fancy there are a few Frankie Howerd fans out there too, myself included, who regard this as perhaps his finest film. His music hall style is perfect for this role, as he plays a ham actor and he clearly enjoys the task. The plot is a fabulously hammy one centering around a psychopathic killer whose snobbishness and sense of class stature is perhaps as psychotic as his desire to murder those who actually have a better blood line than himself (Howerd). Howerd is fantastically ... Read More:

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To the Devil... A Daughter [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Michael Goodliffe
directed by: Peter Sykes

Release Date October 08, 2002
To the Devil a Daughter was Hammer's last horror film, but it makes for a less than grand slice of guignol and pales in comparison to their earlier Dennis Wheatley adaptation, The Devil Rides Out. Richard Widmark is the imported American star battling Christopher Lee's Satanist while trying to protect Nastassja Kinski from becoming host to a demon, but despite a few good scenes the film never really makes much of its premise and the ending is one of the biggest anticlimaxes in the history of horror.

The best part of it is the excellent documentary on Anchor Bay's Region 1 NTSC DVD, which is surprisingly frank about the film's shortcomings - including that non-ending - and Richard Widmark's tantrums on the set. Anchor Bay's transfer is also surprisingly good: ... Read More:

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The Jesus Film (REGION 1) (NTSC)

starring: Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Joseph Shiloach, Niko Nitai, Mosko Alkalai
directed by: John Krish, Peter Sykes

Release Date
I tried to watch this with an open mind, but found myself in stitches!

From the opening when a rather underwhelmed Mary, on discovering that she is going to give birth to the Son of God, drones "My soul doth magnify the Lord!" in a way that suggests she has at least a hundred more interesting things to do that day, right through the gorgeously coiffured (seriously, would he really have had a team of hairdressers with him all the time?)Jesus, the performances are so understated that I found it impossible to relate to it at all.

The actor playing Jesus looks as though he was stoned and had to read his script off-camera! The production is beautifully filmed, but several of the actors seemed not to be acting, but just reciting the script. The disciples ... Read More: