Day: March 2, 2019

I’ll be honest. Other than Demons, which I attribute more to Argento than the director himself, I’ve never been a big fan of the films of Lamberto Bava. However, I’ve been wanting to give him another shot and this week’s Jack the Ripper theme allowed me to watch another of his films. After all, I did […]

Bob Clark always surprises me. How can the same director create Porky’s, A Christmas Story, Black Christmas, Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things and Deathdream? Here’s one more movie that doesn’t seem like it belongs in his list of films: a Jack the Ripper movie where the real-life killer battles with Sherlock Holmes. Written by playwright John Hopkins (Thunderball) and […]

I’ve made it through plenty of Jack the Ripper movies by now and I can point out all of their cliches: a foggy dark night, a man in a cape and a hat, ladies of ill repute singing and screaming “Want some love, guv’nor” and a flash of the blade. Then Jess Franco shows up […]