tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-792821913215826362013-04-25T14:54:59.768+01:00Nothing But The Night!A film and TV blog devoted to the latest releases in Horror, Cult, Archive, Vintage and ArthouseBlack Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-72122075049335538162013-04-21T20:41:00.000+01:002013-04-25T14:54:59.804+01:002013-04-25T14:54:59.804+01:00WORLD CLASSIC FILM REVIEW: Tess (1979)
Roman Polanski’s wistful adaptation
of Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel Tess of the
d'Urbervilles was a languorous, beautifully and meticulously filmed three
hour attempt by the high profile Polish film director, to close the book on a
difficult and still controversial chapter in his personal life, with the
idyllic (and unprecedented) nine months he and his ‘traveling circus’ of a crew
spent Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-7586650199234325762013-03-03T23:34:00.000Z2013-03-03T23:37:03.589Z2013-03-03T23:37:03.589ZTHE CHILDREN'S FILM FOUNDATION COLLECTION: The Race is On (1957-78)
The BFI’s laudable mission to
preserve some of the best examples from the wide selection of independent
features, produced in the UK under the Children’s
Film Foundation banner from the mid-1950s onwards, continues with this
second volume in the proposed series of individual DVD issues, which will be grouping
together three films from each decade of the CFF’s thirty year-long history
around a Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-16476263390845726842012-12-27T10:52:00.001Z2012-12-27T10:53:41.757Z2012-12-27T10:53:41.757ZWORLD CINEMA CLASSICS: Floating Weeds (1959)
Yasujirô Ozu was one of the
most celebrated, idiosyncratic yet -- in his day -- commercially successful
filmmakers in the history of the Japanese film industry. He worked, across nearly
the entirety of his movie-making career, for the Shochiku Company Limited -- the mammoth
studios at
which he first started out as an assistant cameraman in 1923 after
failing his university exams twice. The Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-78834289972034273322012-12-18T13:39:00.002Z2012-12-23T12:22:14.714Z2012-12-23T12:22:14.714ZFESTIVE CULT REVIEW: Christmas Evil (1980)
This much misunderstood psychological
horror film with an oddball New York Christmas slant now gets its seasonal due
on DVD in the UK, thirty years after its initial flop release, thanks to the timely
attentions of Arrow Video. The ‘evil Santa’ motif spawned a handful of
Christmassy horror flicks back in the eighties, but most of them were firmly
grounded in the slasher genre, their makers Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-58157863328198402172012-12-06T20:56:00.001Z2012-12-23T12:26:55.376Z2012-12-23T12:26:55.376ZDVD Review: ULTIMATE ZOMBIE FEAST (2003-2011)
Flesh-eating zombies may
never be likely to take over the world for real, but they have certainly
dominated the horror genre for some considerable time now, and the infection
shows no sign of easing up its widespread virulence as the plague continues its lethal
march across the landscape of international horror, consuming all that fall in its path as it rapidly jumps
host and moves from film Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-58796540885877037602012-10-26T20:43:00.000+01:002012-10-27T09:39:45.906+01:002012-10-27T09:39:45.906+01:00CLASSIC BRITISH HORROR BLU-RAY: The Blood Beast Terror (1967)
This review contains giant moth-related spoilers!
Following hot-on-the-heels of
producer Tony Tenser's first post-Compton production of 1967 (the often
underrated, Michael Reeves-directed Boris Karloff vehicle, The Sorcerers) which came in the wake of his break with former Compton Club partner
and distributor Michael Klinger, this bizarre attempt to emulate the box office success of two
grislyBlack Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-40023427162011296612012-10-23T20:59:00.002+01:002012-10-23T21:09:33.434+01:002012-10-23T21:09:33.434+01:00DVD REVIEW: The Harsh Light of Day (2012)
This review contains spoilers.
This recent independent
British supernatural revenge thriller adapts the exploitation themes of the home
invasion flick to suit the current post-Let
the Right One In art house boom conditions enjoyed presently by a culturally
renewed vampire genre, wherein contemporary urban locations are often requisitioned
to provide a mundane (and in this case chav-inhabited)Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-25666158099413038402012-09-07T14:11:00.001+01:002012-09-07T14:19:21.452+01:002012-09-07T14:19:21.452+01:00Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack! (2012)
A quick glance at the cover art and title of this seventy
minute Japanese OVA (which finds a welcome UK DVD release courtesy of the
Terracotta label’s TERROR COTTA imprint) might lead one to expect this film to
be the anime equivalent of all those silly Asylum flicks such as Mega Shark Versus
Giant Octopus: a big dumb action/monster movie in manga form, with little of
substance about it to holdBlack Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-23255045209476247922012-06-07T19:39:00.000+01:002012-06-07T19:39:36.015+01:002012-06-07T19:39:36.015+01:00The Six Million Dollar Diary Part Five: SERIES FOUR
The Return of Bigfoot also sees the debut of Steve Austin's
hideous moustache
Season four of The Six Million Dollar Man is a curious
beast. Over the course of three previous series, the show had pretty successfully
managed to negotiate all of the safer ground -- from action drama and adventure, through
to science fiction -- for which its versatile format was best suited, with relative comfort.Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-83021177645645389092012-04-19T11:09:00.000+01:002012-04-23T11:48:23.123+01:002012-04-23T11:48:23.123+01:00The Six Million Dollar Diary Part Four: SERIES 3 (1975-76)
Bigfoot cometh, in season three highlight, The Secret of Bigfoot
Series three of The Six Million Dollar Man feels like the inheritance of a
show that has found a niche and is now busy occupying it with complete confidence:
the series was at the peak of its popularity, its regular characters and their
relationships comfortably established in the public mind, and the format of the
show -- and Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-58774670836752399522012-04-11T19:57:00.000+01:002012-04-11T19:59:14.851+01:002012-04-11T19:59:14.851+01:00The Wicker Tree Screening and Q & A
FROM THE CREATORS OF THE CULT CLASSIC
ON DVD & BLU-RAY 30 APRIL 2012
DIRECTOR
Robin Hardy
STARRING
Graham McTavish, Britannia Nicol, Henry Garrett,
Honeysuckle Weeks, Jacqueline Leonard
And a special
guest appearance by
Sir Christopher
Lee
ACCEPT OUR SACRIFICE
1973 saw the release of one of the
most famous horror films of all time – The Wicker Man, which is now
Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-32687735051674036032012-04-06T14:35:00.000+01:002012-04-06T15:04:58.553+01:002012-04-06T15:04:58.553+01:00The Six Million Dollar Diary Part Three: SERIES TWO (1975)
Jaime's back in town: Lindsay Wagner in The Bionic Woman
(Part II)
Season two of The Six Million Dollar Man was really one in which
refinement and consolidation of the basic episodic TV formula, already successfully
established in the Sam Strangis and Donald R. Boyle-produced first mini season, was the name of the game.
With Lionel E. Siegel and Joe L. Cramer now taking over production dutiesBlack Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-86807601596519053952012-04-05T09:33:00.000+01:002012-04-05T09:33:53.008+01:002012-04-05T09:33:53.008+01:00News: DEMONS 3 PREVIEW!For horror fans,
it’s what they have been waiting for since 1986... Written by Stefan Hutchinson
and Barry Keating, with artwork by Jeff Zornow and Peter Fielding, DEMONS 3
is finally here. The original sequel to the first two DEMONS films,
presented as a 2-book comic, which will come housed in the Blu-ray & DVD
editions of DEMONS & DEMONS 2
... and NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT has a first look Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-34676997171184431182012-03-24T14:37:00.000Z2012-04-01T10:05:59.273+01:002012-04-01T10:05:59.273+01:00The Six Million Dollar Diary Part Two: SERIES ONE (1974)
The first mini season of The
Six Million Dollar Man consisted of only thirteen hour-long episodes
instead of the traditional twenty-two. This was because the series was
introduced to the public as a mid-season place filler for another show that had
failed in the ratings during its initial run and was then cancelled by the
network, leaving Universal in urgent need of a last-minute replacement. Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-39695327270652064622012-03-15T20:30:00.000Z2012-03-15T20:30:30.815Z2012-03-15T20:30:30.815ZThe Six Million Dollar Diary Part One: THE TV MOVIES (1973)
The cult action series The Six Million Dollar Man started life in the imagination of prolific
SF author Martin Caidin, who wrote four pulp Cyborg themed novels between 1972 and 1975 based on the adventures
of his ‘bionic’ protagonist Colonel Steve Austin -- a former NASA astronaut-turned-US
Air Force test pilot, who becomes a cyborg secret agent working for a shadowy
black ops organisation Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-57726557930992123162012-03-07T12:07:00.000Z2012-03-09T23:42:33.644Z2012-03-09T23:42:33.644ZIntroducing The Six Million Dollar Diary!
If there's one American series that defines growing up in the 1970s for me, then that series is surely The Six Million Dollar Man. Lee Majors was the ultimate action hero - and my Steve Austin 'bionic man' action figure (complete with rubber forearm skin, which could be rolled up to reveal its distinctly paper and perspex 'bionic' workings!) was my most prized possession (until the rubber went Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-35396265576490160062012-02-16T18:58:00.001Z2012-02-17T19:55:37.267Z2012-02-17T19:55:37.267ZMORE FROM GRIMM UP NORTH!
It's just a bit too grim for Chloe Sevigny apparently, but if you happen to be up Manchester way on 23rd February then GRIMM UP NORTH have a great arthouse horror double bill coming your way ..
A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE. Adam Wingard’s unrelenting and violently modern psycho thriller that is just as disturbing as it is powerful. As an Award winning festival favourite, Grimm are proud to announce Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-20834841378333253942012-02-03T22:05:00.005Z2012-02-17T19:52:52.981Z2012-02-17T19:52:52.981ZLE SILENCE DE LA MER (1949)
The surname ‘Melville’ was a pseudonym adopted originally in tribute to the American author Herman Melville by Jean-Pierre Grumbach during the Second World War, soon after he joined the Gaullist Resistance movement as a response to the occupation of France by Nazi forces in May, 1940. A fiercely independent but committed student of cinema, Jean Pierre Melville’s subsequent experiences during theBlack Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-83920470573893655182012-02-01T19:33:00.001Z2012-02-17T19:53:55.181Z2012-02-17T19:53:55.181ZGRIMM UP NORTH GOES SAMURAI!Fancy a spot of Splattery Samurai sword action this winter? Then Manchester is the place to be on the 17th of February as GRIMM UP NORTH unleash a double-bill of cult Samurai Splatter action in the form of SHOGUN ASSASSIN and its sequel BABY CART TO HADES.
SHOGUN ASSASSIN: Once considered a video nasty now considered a cult classic. In the early 80s, the first two Lonewolf and Cub movies wereBlack Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-39952287188776579662012-01-30T17:38:00.000Z2012-01-30T17:38:54.181Z2012-01-30T17:38:54.181ZEli Roth Talks Rolling ThunderMy review of the new Studio Canal Double Play release of John Flynn's cult revenge drama Rolling Thunder is now up at HORRORVIEW.COM. Included on the disc as an extra is the following "Trailer from Hell" in which Eli Roth gives his verdict on the film and cites it as an influence on both himself and Quentin Tarantino ...
Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-78609754462631813932012-01-27T13:01:00.000Z2012-01-27T13:01:09.424Z2012-01-27T13:01:09.424ZArrow Video Spring Titles Revealed!Arrow Video have released details of some tasty cult treats which they have in store for us all in the coming months, courtesy of CULT LABS. Here without further ado is the info. The Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci's The House by the Cemetery looks especially enticing!
Demons (Arrow Video) Limited Edition Blu-ray
Live and direct, straight from HELL!
Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento bring you Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-17326783874986107652012-01-03T20:56:00.007Z2012-02-17T18:26:23.424Z2012-02-17T18:26:23.424ZTHE EXTERMINATOR (1980)The popular vigilante exploitation movie The Exterminator, written and directed by a then twenty-nine-year-old James Glickenhaus and released in 1980, starts with an explosive prologue set in war-torn Vietnam, which was actually shot in just four days as an afterthought to the main storyline (California strategically standing-in for the steamy Vietnamese jungle), with the film’s original eight Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-1200332324845017552011-12-23T21:04:00.002Z2011-12-26T19:20:56.812Z2011-12-26T19:20:56.812ZTHE HAMMER VAULT - Treasures From The Archive Of Hammer Films
In the course of compiling the marvellous store of diverse materials that adorn the pages of this lavish, nostalgic, hardback souvenir-tribute to what must surely be one of the richest of British film legacies in existence, official Hammer historian Marcus Hearn has assiduously combed the vaults of the British Film Institute’s national archive and the rarely glimpsed collections held in trust Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-35740140896171455052011-12-20T19:20:00.010Z2011-12-20T20:15:04.588Z2011-12-20T20:15:04.588ZRARE EXPORTS - A Christmas Tale (2010)It is one month before Christmas day In the wintery heart of Lapland, and weird doings are afoot: an international mining concern, backed by a dwarfish prospector called Riley (Per Christian Ellefsen), believes it has uncovered a ‘sacred’ burial ground in the mountains: the final resting place of an evil entity who has haunted Norse legend since time immemorial. For a vast ice tomb buried 486 Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79282191321582636.post-55154067656659004032011-11-30T22:07:00.011Z2011-12-06T19:25:50.456Z2011-12-06T19:25:50.456ZTAXIDERMIED - The Art of Roman Dirge Roman Dirge is an American artist and magician who is best known as the man behind the uniquely macabre comic book series Lenore, the cute little dead girl, which features the adventures of his own pale and humorous -- but decidedly deceased -- pre-school creation, who “lives” with some of her oddball friends in the fictional town of Nevermore. This was a character originally inspired by the Black Gloveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01771303462033735870noreply@blogger.com0