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Ben Is Back: Trailer For Affleck Toplined Actioner TRIPLE FRONTIER

Triple Frontier is perfect Movies In Focus fodder. J.C. Chandor’s film seems like a rough and tumble, gritty action thriller with brains. Tough guys, doing tough things, against tough odds. Written by Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), this [...]

December 11, 2018

Behind The Scenes Of STAR WARS: Vader, Tarkin And Skywalker Just Hanging Out

Behind-the-scenes images from classic movies are always worth a look. Here’s David Prowse (Darth Vader) and Peter Cushing (Grand Moff Tarkin) on the set of 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope hanging out with an off-duty Mark Hamill (Luke [...]

November 28, 2018

It’s HAMMER Time This November On The Horror Channel

This November the UK’s Horror Channel is celebrating horror cinema at its finest with a Hammer Classics Seasons. The channel is embracing the best of horror by showing The Abominable Snowman, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy [...]

October 23, 2018

Celebrate 60 Years Of Hammer Horror

Readers of Movies in Focus will know that I have a huge appreciation for Hammer Horror movies. The films from the British horror studio have a style of their own and they dripped with a wonderful gothic atmosphere. Hammer’s first horror film [...]

August 5, 2017

Get Your Velvet Out: Trailer for HAMMER HORROR: THE WARNER BROS YEARS

Movies In Focus is a huge aficionado of Hammer Films‘ luscious horror films. If it wasn’t for the studio then it’s highly unlikely that the site would have a major focus on the horror genre. I love the acting in those films, the [...]

January 11, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Ian Richardson In THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES & THE SIGN OF FOUR

The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sign of Four are two of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most well known Sherlock Holmes stories. They’ve been adapted for the screen numerous times, and these 1983 television films star Ian Richardson as the great [...]

June 4, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Peter Cushing And Christopher Lee Tackle THE SKULL

They don’t make movies like The Skull anymore. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee top-line this 1965 British horror that sees Cushing’s occult collector acquire the skull of the Marquis de Sade – but the evil relic soon takes on a life of [...]

October 18, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Terence Fisher’s THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH With Christopher Lee

The Man Who Could Cheat Death is an all but forgotten Hammer film from 1959. Terence Fisher’s horror may not be Hammer at its best but it does have enough intriguing elements (and Christopher Lee) to make it watchable. Anton Diffring is Georges [...]

September 23, 2015

Review: Joe Dante’s Zombie Romantic Comedy BURYING THE EX

Throughout his career Joe Dante has always had a knack for successfully infusing horror with other genres. Gremlins saw him reach the darker side of a Spielbergian/Capraesque family drama and The ‘Burbs put a horror spin on a Hitchcockian [...]

June 15, 2015

Blu-ray Review: Peter Cushing And Christopher Lee Star In Hammer’s THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

It’s Holmes under the Hammer with this 1959 screen adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound Of The Baskervilles. This glorious Hammer production is a faithful adaptation of Doyle’s tale with Peter Cushing and Andre Morell starring [...]

June 14, 2015

Obituary: Christopher Lee 1922 – 2015

<> on August 7, 2013 in Locarno, Switzerland. Christopher Lee died on 7 June 2015 from respiratory problems and heart failure. He was 93 years old. Few actors have had an impact on so many generations in the way that Lee did. The tall, dark [...]

June 11, 2015

Blu-ray Review: HANDS OF THE RIPPER Contains Melodramatic Moments Of Gory Camp

Hands Of The Ripper is a gloriously melodramatic 1971 horror from Hammer Films. Peter Sasdy’s film follows Jack The Ripper’s daughter (Angharad Rees) who subconsciously murders her way across Edwardian London. Her condition is caused by a [...]

September 1, 2014

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