The Beast Must Die 1974 7 out of 10

The Beast Must Die 1974   7 out of 10

A millionaire invites a group of people to spend time at his mansion.  One of them he claims is a werewolf and he is determined to figure out which one by the end of the weekend and hunt and kill them.  "The beast must die"  he  loudly proclaims in overly dramatic fashion.  The film is kinda of cheesy and yet kind of interesting at the same time. It is more of a who done it with a twist than a horror movie with a little bit of The Most Dangerous game thrown in.    The main actor played Calvin Lockhart is so over the top that I found his performance enjoyable.  The film also features horror legend Peter Cushing as one of the possible werewolves.   The end of the movie the 4th wall is broken during a 30 second werewolf break where the audience is asked to guess how the werewolf is like some cheesy Castle Films stunt.  Enjoyable nachos with 1970's cheesy sauce.  

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The Gorgon 1964 7 out of 10

The Gorgon 1964   7 out of 10

October is here and that means all the channels are starting to run Halloween programing..... which translates to Horror movies.  TMC had a Hammer Horror films double feature this morning.   The first movie was The Gorgon  from 1964 starring Hammer horror legends  Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.  The Gorgon centers around a 20th century village that has the spirit of Megaera (one of the 3 Gorgons from mythology)  taking human form during the full moon and turning people to stone.  So basically it is just a version of the werewolf story with  a Gorgon instead of a wolf.   The story centers around who the Gorgon is (which can be figured out really early in the film --despite an attempt at a red herring.    It had the typical feel and style of many of the 1960's Hammer Horror movies,  both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were great as usual they both have such great screen presence. They are  similiar to Vincent Price in that they elevate the low budget horror movies that they are in simple by their prescene on screen.  I enjoyed the tone and feel of this Hammer movie.

Hammer Horror  legends Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee  together again.

Check out the trailer here.

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She 1965 7 out of 10

Based on the H. Rider Haggard book who also wrote the Alan Quartermain novels (like King Solomon's Mines)  this feature film stars Ursula Andress as the immortal Ayesha, 'She who must be obeyed'.    The movie also stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee , it is a Hammer film during the period that they were branching out beyond horror movies into the adventure and scantily clad women genre.   The movie was a good  solid adventure story which like  the other H. Rider Haggard books it deals with explorers coming across  a lost city.    A Brit played by John Richardson is believed to be the long lost love of Ayesha.   He is lured to the lost city by Ayesha's eternal beauty....(and boy does Ursula Andress fit the role).   She is flawlessly beautiful is this picture, it is easy to see why he falls for her.    The movie is well paced  starting with their journey to find the lost city, there encounter with the slaves that serve that city and a climatic fight at the end that deals with the the flame that gives eternal life.   The movie has an ending which definitely influenced my favorite movies of all-time from the Indiana Jones series.   George Lucas credits as one of the main influences for Indy being King Solomon's Mines and the serials of the 1930's and this H Rider adaptation clearly influenced Indy as well

Here is a sample of the movie and Ursula's beauty.