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Tag: Donald Pleasence

Fantastic Voyage (1966) – Review

Posted on February 17, 2023February 16, 2023 by Mike Brooks

When it comes to science fiction films the topic of making something huge is almost a genre unto itself, whether it be radioactively enlarged ants or amazing colossal men there were a lot of movies about things being embiggened but as for making things made small, well, we have Richard Matheson’s powerful novel The Incredible…

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Phenomena (1985) – Review

Posted on October 21, 2022October 20, 2022 by Mike Brooks

What do you get when you mix a psychic teen’s ability to control insects with that of a serial killer stalking the students of an all-girls boarding school, a straight-razor-wielding chimp and Donald Pleasence? If you’ve come up with the answer “A Dario Argento film” then you are clearly a student of Italian Giallo and…

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You Only Live Twice (1967) – Review

Posted on June 29, 2021June 29, 2021 by Mike Brooks

What happens when you get the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to write the screenplay for a Bond film? As odd as that question sounds the world was treated to the answer in 1967 when children’s author Roald Dahl adapted Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice to the big screen.  With this film,…

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Dracula (1979) – Review

Posted on September 14, 2014October 31, 2021 by Mike Brooks

Before there were vampires being interviewed, and well before any of them sparkled, there was John Badham’s Dracula in what must be the earliest truly romantic vampire movie.

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