This week Becky and I brave the Goat of Mendes as we look at one of Hammer's best (opinions differ here on just how great it is), The Devil Rides Out (1968). Find it in all the usual places and at www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer.
Something a bit different on Hammer Time this week as Becky and I talk to Hammer expert Marcus Hearn about the legacy of the great Jimmy Sangster. Available in all the usual places including share.google/yyxmU2b5blwq...
Mutzmag: An Appalachian Fairytale (1993) is an obscure short(ish) folk horror tale about a young girl, a witch and a "giant" that very effectively transplants various European folktales into the Appalachian mountains. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/m...
Mutzmag: An Appalachian Fairytale (1993)
Mutzmag: An Appalchian Fairytale, also referred to online as The Girl Who Killed Cannibals though whether it was ever actually known as that is unclear, was one of a series of short(ish) featurette…
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From a time when the BBC were still willing to experiment a bit comes Home (2003), an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's short story The Enormous Space (1989) about a man who cuts himself off from the outside world and goes slowly mad... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/h...
Home (2003)
One of the many obsessions that haunted British writer J.G. Ballard was the “liminal space,” which became hot topic in horror circles following the release of Kane Parson’s Backro…
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Fernando Durán Rojas' Hot Snake (1978) is a slow moving, unpredictable and moody Mexican western featuring a witch, a solar eclipse, lashings of Italian western-style violence and a corpse that refuses to stay still. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/h...
Hot Snake (1978)
Original title: Víbora caliente By the late 1970s, the Italians had all but given up on westerns, but the influence of the spaghetti western was still being felt far and wide. In Mexico, director F…
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Jiří Barta's The Pied Piper (1986) is an extraordinary re-imaging of the folk tale as Gothic horror, a dark and relentlessly bleak, yet still gorgeous-looking, tale of greed, betrayal and revenge. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/t...
The Pied Piper (1986)
Original title: Krysař This stunning and boundlessly inventive Czech/West German retelling of the famous German legend from the Middle Ages was the feature film debut of Jiří Barta, a prodigiously …
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The longest piece I've written so far is for a film I really don't like at all - Casino Royale (1967). Fans - and there are some - might want to steer clear of this one. You're not going to like it... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/25/c...
Casino Royale (1967)
In January 1966, the very next day after the far more entertaining Carry on Screaming! went before the cameras at Pinewood, producer American producer Charles K. Feldman was leading his troops onto…
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If you don't fancy listening to the Hammer Time podcast (if not, what's wrong with you??!), here are some written thoughts of Quatermass and the Pit (1967) you might like instead... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/q...
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Quatermass and the Pit, first broadcast by the BBC between 22 December 1958 and 26 January 1959 was Nigel Kneale’s most ambitious serial to date and had been on Hammer’s radar since as early as 196…
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This week, Becky and I take a look at one of Hammer's very best, the brilliant Quatermass and the Pit (1967). Available in all the usual podcast places and, as usual, at www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer
EOH Network@evolutionofhorror.bsky.social · 2w agoCities in flames! World panic spreads! This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev and Becky are digging beneath the streets of London and uncovering ancient Martian secrets as they discuss Nigel Kneale's classic sci-fi horror QUATERMASS AND THE PIT from 1967. OUT NOW!
@eofftv.bsky.social got me back on my Nigel Kneale obsession with the Hammer time pod, and recommended the TV show Beasts. Cex came to the rescue! And only cost me £12! It’s gonna get weird.
Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are back in sync this week on Hammer Time as we discuss THE MUMMY'S SHROUD and both agree it's pretty good actually! OUT NOW! 🎧 Part of @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social
We're going back to Egypt on Hammer Time this week (don't worry, it's better than our last trip there...) as we, to quote the posters, "beware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet!" with The Mummy's Shroud (1967). Listen at all good podcast outlets and here: www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer
Me and Becky are back with the Baron in this week's Hammer Time. Will we find more common ground this time? Maybe... maybe not... Available where you get all your podcasts and here: www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer
It took three directors to bring Space Mutiny (1988) to the screen and none of them had any idea how to do anything with it. Legendarily awful, it's littered with continuity errors, odd filming locations and stock shots from Battlestar Galactica... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/s...
Space Mutiny (1988)
This infamous science fiction fiasco is one of those films that will be far more entertaining to read about than to watch watch for most people, though those with a taste for terrible acting, inexp…
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Today we're paying our first visit to the very strange world of animator Bill Plympton with a look at his surreal, trippy and constantly imaginative debut feature, The Tune (1992). It won’t be our last visit. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/t...
The Tune (1992)
Bill Plympton began his professional career as an illustrator and cartoonist, contributing to The New York Times, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, National Lampoon and many others, nota…
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With No Time to Die (2021), the James Bond franchise as we knew it came to a divisive end (it's a lot better than some would have you believe) before it transferred over to Amazon. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/n...
No Time to Die (2021)
After 24 films, 6 actors and 59 years, Eon Productions stewardship of the James Bond screen franchise came to an end with the 25th film in the series, No Time to Die. Initially overseen by producer…
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This week on HAMMER TIME, Becky and Kev discuss Joan Fontaine, folk horror, virgin sacrifices and nearly come to blows over the Nigel Kneale-penned THE WITCHES (1966)! OUT NOW
Heavy metal horror films are mostly awful but Heavy Metal Massacre (1989), a vanity project from a former wrestler with dreadful music and far too many cheap video effects, really plumbs the depths. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/h...
Heavy Metal Massacre (1989)
There should be a special place in the darkest pits of Hell reserved for makers of heavy metal horror films. If it’s a vanity project, they should be physically tormented for an eternity. And…
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From industrial art collective Survival Research Laboratories comes the bleak but fascinating short A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief (1988) in which robotic creatures do appalling things to each other for 13 minutes. And it's better than that sounds... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/a...
A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief (1988)
Industrial art collective Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) first came to wider prominence in the early 1980s, notably in V. Vale and Andrea Juno’s RE/Search volume The Industrial Culture …
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No new review today (it's been a busy one and I'll try to catch up tomorrow) but given the weather in the UK today, revisiting this old favourite seems an appropriate alternative... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/t...
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
The early 1960s were golden years for British big screen SF. Although there were still monstrosities like the delirious Konga (1960), the fun Gorgo (1961) and the eminently forgettable What a Whopp…
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Night of Horror (1981), remade a year later as the mildly less wretched The Curse of the Screaming Dead, is one of the worst horror films ever shot, a technically incompetent and almost unfathomable fiasco. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/n...
Night of Horror (1981)
Troma head man Lloyd Kaufman once wrote, in his book All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger, that Tony Malanowski’s low budget atrocity The Curse of the Screamin…
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An "adult" movie take on Michael Crichton's Westworld (1973)? Well, that's more or less what SexWorld (1977) is. And it's surprisingly stylish thanks to inventive direction by Anthony Spinelli. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/s...
SexWorld (1977)
As the title would suggest, Anthony Spinelli’s SexWorld is a pornographic film that takes its cues from Michael Crichton’s Westworld (1973) and, to a lesser extent, Richard T. Heffron&#…
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Christopher Smith's Triangle (2009) is an impressive, twisty thriller set aboard an abandoned ocean liner where Jess, played by Melissa George, is trapped in a time loop - and she may have been there for a very long time... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/t...
Triangle (2009)
Christopher Smith’s third feature film is as different from its predecessor – the horror comedy Severance (2006) – as it was from his debut, subterranean shocker Creep (2004). Her…
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Captain of Cosmos (1979) is another sub-standard Korean animation given a hilariously awful English dub by Joseph Lai's Adda Audio Visual Ltd company and foisted off on an unsuspecting western audience. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/21/c...
Captain of Cosmos (1979)
Original title: 우주 흑기사/Wooju heukgisa “That’s unbelievable! I can’t believe I saw that!” Here we have another of those sub-standard Korean animations repurposed by Joseph La…
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Daniel Craig's penultimate outing as James Bond, Spectre (2015), has much to enjoy but is let down by a script that makes some very odd decisions. The set pieces and (most of) the cast are great though. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/s...
Spectre (2015)
By the time of the fourth film in his tenure as Britain’s best known secret agent, it was becoming clear that the Daniel Craig Bond films were on something of a roller coaster. Spectre is a l…
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This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev and Becky are up against another of Hammer's iconic female monsters, as they shed their skins and smash their sitars for a chat about THE REPTILE from 1966. Out now!
Becky and I are on our Hammer travels again, this time returning to Cornwall and shedding our skins along the way, just like the star of The Reptile (1966). I'm sure you know where to find us by now...
One for @eofftv.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social ? Peter Cushing’s slippers. THOSE slippers.
Lizbeth Myles@lizbethmyles.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo, last week I got to see these at Whitstable Museum: Peter Cushing’s slippers. The ones he wore during Star Wars filming.
After hearing @bunnydarke.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social talk about this on Hammertime pod mailbag episode, I just knew I had to pay a visit. 😊
Mother Russia is calling in this week's Hammer Time as Becky and I look at Rasputin the Mad Monk, sing the praises of Christopher Lee and Barbara Shelley, talk about heavy metal and yes, of course we quote Boney M. Available in all the usual places. www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer
