EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This week on Hammer Time, Becky and I are diving into the listener's mailbag and talk about vampire slayer team-ups, House of Hammer magazine, Zeppelin vs Pterodactyls and even the Corman Poe films among other things. You know where to find us by now... www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer 371
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We've reached The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) on this week's Hammer Time and my grumpiness is off the scale. Becky tries to maintain a sense of balance, I just moan for a couple of hours. I promise it's more fun than it sounds! www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer 3133
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Well here we are then... Grumpy Kev has finally arrived on Hammer Time as me and Becky take a look at Scars of Dracula (1970). One of us liked it rather more than the other. It should be hard to work out which way around that is... www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer 4162
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The Black Planet (1982) is an odd animated fable from Australian television about a planet rich in oil, the war-mongering military of a neighbouring planet determined to invade and the feminist and the secret agent trying to stop them. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/t...eofftvreview.wordpress.comThe Black Planet (1982)Nothing to do with hip-hop group Public Enemy or their subsequent album Fear of a Black Planet (1990), this peculiar Australian made-for-television science fiction fable is virtually the textbook d… 081
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026We (finally) get to the end of our James Bond series with the very disappointing return of Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of Thunderball (1965) that doesn’t quite cut it. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/n...eofftvreview.wordpress.comNever Say Never Again (1983)In 1983, James Bond went to war against his most formidable opponent yet – himself. June saw the release of the thirteenth official film from EON productions and four months later, thanks to … 140
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Ghost Galleon (1974) is the third, and least, of Amando de Ossorio's Blind Dead quartet, the zombie Templars robbed of their horses and confined to a rather ratty looking of ship which occasionally turns into a toy in a bathtub... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/t...eofftvreview.wordpress.comThe Ghost Galleon (1974)Original title: El buque maldito The third and least interesting of Amando de Ossorio’s quartet of films about the Blind Dead, zombified, Satan worshipping Knights Templar with a taste for hu… 040
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Dracula Bites the Big Apple (1979) is a student thesis film from the man who went on to make Vamp (1986), a short comedy with a few good gags. Not enough, but it's affable enough in its own cheapjack way. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/d...eofftvreview.wordpress.comDracula Bites the Big Apple (1979)This oddball short film, just a tad over 20 minutes, appeared in the same year as a little run of Dracula feature films – Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht/Nosferatu the Vamp… 010
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Shojun Fukui's 964 Pinocchio (1991) is a batshit crazy, experimental cyberpunk piece about a sex cyborg with erectile dysfunction and the mad woman he meets after being discarded by his frustrated owner. Yes, it really is that weird... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/9...eofftvreview.wordpress.com964 Pinocchio (1991)Original title: ピノキオ√964 From that fascinating period of underground filmmaking in Japan comes this typically wild and weird emanation from director Shojun Fukui, director of some of the most inter… 030
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I've never really been a fan of The Vampire Lovers - but what does Becky make of it? Find out as we enter the full horrors (and not in a good way...) of 1970s in this week's Hammer Time. You know where to find this by now I'm sure, but just in case... www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer 3142
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Perfect Woman (1949) is only marginally science fiction. There's a female humanoid robot but she's not in it a great deal and the rest is a rather long-in-the-tooth and only fitfully amusing comedy that must have seemed dated even in 1949. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/t...eofftvreview.wordpress.comThe Perfect Woman (1949)A long running theme in fantasy and science fiction has been man’s eternal quest for the perfect woman, and if that means creating his own artificial female to fit the bill, then so be it. Fr… 030
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Good Lord, something new on EOFFTV Review! Time to resurrect a sporadic series of posts in which I do capsule reviews of some of the best, the worst and the oddest things I've watched this month. Proper reviews back tomorrow. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/i...eofftvreview.wordpress.com“I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe…” – August 2026A look at a selection of bits and pieces seen this month, including catching up on a few more recent films, some of which may eventually get full blown reviews, most of which won’t… Zim… 070
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026And while we're at it, let's take a second look at the greatest of all British kids dystopias, the genuinely chilling and endlessly inventive The Changes (1975). eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2018/09/15/t...eofftvreview.wordpress.comThe Changes (1975)In 1975, Peter Dickinson’s trilogy of young adult novels, Weathermonger (1968), Heartsease (1969), and The Devil’s Children (1970), were adapted by Anna Home – the near-legendary … 020
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Did I do one of these yesterday? I don't think I did... OK two today, both dystopian thrillers made for British children's television, starting with Noah’s Castle (1980) in which a family struggle to cope in a world beset by chaos. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/n...eofftvreview.wordpress.comNoah’s Castle (1980)That pervasive strain of dour dystopian fiction that ran throughout 70s British television once again found its way into children’s television with this startling vision of a near future wher… 000
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026We reach the dread year 1970 this week on Hammer Time but it's a good one to start with. The Count is back in Taste the Blood of Dracula and me and Becky agree it's a little gem! In all the usual places, and... www.evolutionofhorror.com/hammer 5104
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic Solaris (1972) is one of the masterpieces of science fiction cinema. Deeply intelligent, emotionally satisfying and with one of the most enigmatic endings ever, it remains a powerful and visually stunning piece of work. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2022/02/18/s...eofftvreview.wordpress.comSolaris (1972)Original title: Solyaris By any standard, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 science fiction novel Solaris (it followed a television version in 1968 and was in t… 140
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Another randomly chosen older post in lieu of anything new for the time being - let's revisit Peter Hyams' 2010 (1984) which proved to be a better film I'd remembered. It's not 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), but then what is? eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/2...eofftvreview.wordpress.com2010 (1984)If ever the was a film that really didn’t a sequel it must surely be Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Its enigmatic ending deserved to remain a mystery to be pondered and… 230
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026And how about a second look at extraordinary Japanese apocalyptic thriller Akira (1988), one of the great classics of anime directed by Katsuro Otomo. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2019/11/10/a...eofftvreview.wordpress.comAkira (1987)Katsuro Otomo’s extraordinary animated cyberpunk classic was instrumental in introducing anime to Western audiences who had largely been familiar with the form, if at all, through television … 171
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Super busy yesterday so let's have two older review revisits today, starting with Go and Get It (1920), a film long thought lost until it miraculously turned up in an Italian film archive a few years ago. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/g...eofftvreview.wordpress.comGo and Get It (1920)Considered lost of many years until a copy turned up at the Cineteca Italiana (under the title Le avventure di un reporter), tantalising images from Marshall Neilan and Henry Roberts Symonds’… 0101
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Today's blast from past is Murder by Decree (1979), a classic encounter between Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper. wp.me/p7hzmr-1ng 290
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Apologies for the lack of new reviews round these parts recently - I'm absolutely snowed under with other stuff, so how about some reminders of older reviews that you may have missed, chosen more or less at random. Let's start with... 130
Reposted by EOFFTVEOH Network @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This week on HAMMER TIME, Kevin and Becky come up against Baron Frankenstein once again as he goes completely off the deep end and proves that he's truly more monstrous than the monsters he created! It's FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED from 1969! 1123
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This week on Hammer Time, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave and he's not at all happy about it. Listen at all the usual podcast outlets and here: share.google/OJMAzscMcS9n... 582
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This 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. 3163
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Something 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... 0143
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Mutzmag: 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comMutzmag: 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… 031
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 28/07/2026From 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comHome (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… 151
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Fernando 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comHot 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… 041
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Jiří 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comThe 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 … 061
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comCasino 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… 151
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 22/07/2026If 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comQuatermass 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… 1142
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This 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 3206
Reposted by EOFFTVJokusatsu @joefriday37.bsky.social · 17/07/2026@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. 1101
Reposted by EOFFTVBecky Darke @bunnydarke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Kevin (@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 1174
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 15/07/2026We'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 5144
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Me 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 5184
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 06/07/2026It 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comSpace 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… 231
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Today 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comThe 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… 051
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 04/07/2026With 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comNo 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… 221
Reposted by EOFFTVEOH Network @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This 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 4224
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Heavy 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comHeavy 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… 251
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 27/06/2026From 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comA 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 … 151
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 25/06/2026No 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comThe 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… 061
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Night 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comNight 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… 120
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026An "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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comSexWorld (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&#… 051
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Christopher 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comTriangle (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… 091
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Captain 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comCaptain 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… 030
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Daniel 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...eofftvreview.wordpress.comSpectre (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… 041
Reposted by EOFFTVEOH Network @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This 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! 1166
EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Becky 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... 1164
Reposted by EOFFTVDavid Haraldson @lostdiarist.bsky.social · 13/06/2026One for @eofftv.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social ? Peter Cushing’s slippers. THOSE slippers. 163
