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It's HAMMER TIME! This week Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are smuggling with pirates and feeling ALL the feels while we do it 🏴‍☠️🥲 You can listen to our chat about CAPTAIN CLEGG (1962) now wherever you get your podcasts
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
We're tangling with Captain Clegg and his marsh phantoms in this week's Hammer Time. Available here (share.google/tn4qRxYSRouS...) and in all the usual podcast places!
February 4, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Wes Craven's notoriously up-and-down career hit a new low with awful sequel The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985) - the one that features a flashback to the first film from the dog's perspective. Yes, that one...

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The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985)
Wes Craven’s career was always famously a bit of a roller coaster, every high matched with a soul crushing low that challenged even the most devoted of fans. One of the undoubted highs was hi…
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February 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972) is a disastrously bad television special featuring many of the Looney Tunes characters that has to be endured to be believed.

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Porky Pig and Daffy Duck Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972)
Warner Bros. closed their cartoon studio on 10 October 1969, bring an end of sorts to a long history of animation history that dated back to 1930, putting their menagerie of superstars out to pastu…
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February 1, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) was another disappointing outing for Roger Moore as James Bond, despite a terrific performance by Christopher Lee as the eponymous assassin.

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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Live and Let Die (1973), for all its faults, made a ton of money for Eon Productions, even more than Sean Connery’s temporary return to the James Bond franchise, Diamonds Are Forever (1971), …
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February 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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@bunnydarke.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social, Powerhouse Films have got a buy three get 20% deal on Blu-ray’s at the moment, including lots of Hammer (which are already quite cheap). I think it’s worth sharing! Here’s my recent order.
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February 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Object Z (1965) is a terrific British science fiction television series, recently released on blu-ray. Ostensibly aimed at children, it's a more mature and serious 6-parter than you might expect, full of twists and turns, all spoiled here so be careful!

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Object Z (1965)
!!SPOILER WARNING: THIS REVIEW GIVES AWAY MAJOR PLOT TWISTS!! Long unavailable after its initial television broadcast on ITV between 19 October and 23 November 1965, Object Z was finally brought ba…
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January 31, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Mike Newell's lead footed The Awakening (1980) is a good looking but dreary adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars. Hammer's Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) did it so much better.

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The Awakening (1980)
Mike Newell’s lead footed adaptation of Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of the Seven Stars (1917), following in the footsteps of an episode of Mystery and Imagination (1966-1970) and Hammer&#82…
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January 30, 2026 at 3:40 PM
More Tigon SF in an underwhelming 1972 big screen spin-off from the much better TV series Doomwatch. A good cast but it all feels very stretched out and implausible.

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Doomwatch (1972)
The BBC’s big new science fiction title of the early 1970s had been Doomwatch, which ran from 9 February 1970 to 14 August 1972. Created by medical scientist Kit Pedler and screenwriter Gerry…
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January 28, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The Body Stealers (1969) is a very silly science fiction film from Tony Tenser's Tigon about aliens abducting humans from thin air to help repopulate their home world. When he's not too busy chasing skirt, Patrick Allen tries to stop them.

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The Body Stealers (1969)
The summer of 1968 found Tigon’s Tony Tenser striking a deal with Sagittarius, a company with no previous film-making experience but which, under the leadership of producer in the making Henr…
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January 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Join Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I on HAMMER TIME this week for our chat about the superb twisty turny thriller TASTE OF FEAR. Come for the insightful observations, stay for the hot takes, queer readings, and my continuing fetishisation of being carried around by a strong chauffeur. OUT NOW 🎧
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This week on Hammer Time, Becky (@bunnydarke.bsky.social) and I take a look at the first of Hammer's psychological horrors, the wonderful A Taste of Fear. Listen here or at all the usual podcast outlets.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:03 PM
In Montgomery Tully's Battle Beneath the Earth (1967), Chinese forces attempt to destroy the USA by tunnelling under their major cities and planting nuclear bombs. And yes, it really is that dumb...

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Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)
Battle Beneath the Earth may be set in the States and stocked to the gills with American actors but it’s actually British, shot at MGM’s studio at Boreham Wood under the stewardship of …
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January 26, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Prime Rose: A Time Slip of 10,000 Years (1983) is a tonally weird science fiction/fantasy romp from the mind of anime master Osamu Tezuka which is, at times, charming, innocent fun and at others... rather unsavoury.

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Prime Rose: A Time Slip of 10,000 Years (1983)
Original title: Taimu surippu 10000-nen: Puraimu Rôzu A television film, originally broadcast as part of a 24-hour charity screening event in August 1983, Satoshi Dezaki’s Prime Rose: A Time …
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January 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Live and Let Die (1973) introduced a new James Bond I the shape of Roger Moore, but it was an inauspicious debut, a rather humdrum adventure that turns Bond into an international narcotics agent. Great theme tune though.

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Live and Let Die (1973)
With Sean Connery having fulfilled his deal to make one more James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and had moved on to pastures new (the excellent The Offence (1972) was on the horizon and …
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January 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Hajime Satô's House of Terrors (1965) is a terrific Gothic, heavily inspired by The Haunting (1963) and contemporary Italian horror films but still unmistakenly Japanese. Hard to find for years, it's emerged as something of a lost gem.

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House of Terrors (1965)
Original title: 怪談せむし男/Kaidan semushi otoko The original title translates as The Ghost of the Hunchback which is blunt for surprisingly accurate title. Directed by Hajime Satô – later of Kait…
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January 23, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Robert Fuest's The Final Programme (1973) is a disappointing adaptation of the Michael Moorcock novel by a writer/director who didn't really understand what the book was about. Jon Finch and Jenny Runacre are very good in the lead roles though.

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The Final Programme (1973)
As an adaptation of Michael Moorcock’s 1969 novel, The Final Programme can only be judged a failure. As a film in its own rights it has its moments (most of them involving Jon Finch as the lo…
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January 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Rod Hardy's television film, Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD (1998), stars David Hasselhoff as a bland an unimpressive secret agent. It would take a full decade to get Fury on screen again, in the more impressive shape of Samuel L. Jackson.

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Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD (1998)
A decade before Samuel L. Jackson played the role in the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), it was David Hasselfoff’s turn to bring Marvel hero Nick Fury, two-fisted, tough-talking, n…
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January 21, 2026 at 5:10 PM
In this week's Hammer Time, me and Becky spend some time in The Shadow of the Cat. Available on all the major podcast platforms and at the Evolution of Horror website - share.google/dwDOv9fliEnD3I…
January 21, 2026 at 11:29 AM
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) is an offbeat mix of SF and documentary as only Werner Herzog could make, a fascinating warning about the fate of the planet from Brad Dourif who may, or may not, be playing an alien. It's that kind of film...

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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
It’s difficult to know how to take The Wild Blue Yonder, a German/British/French oddity (billing itself in the opening credits as “a science fiction fantasy”) co-financed by the B…
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January 20, 2026 at 1:43 PM
All distractions are out of the way now so let's do a few reviews before something else turns up. Shame that the "comeback" is the entirely dreadful science fiction spoof Zeta One (1969) but you can't have everything...

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Zeta One (1969)
Producer Tony Tenser had suffered mixed fortunes with science fiction by 1969. The Projected Man (1966) and The Body Stealers (1969) were dismal affairs though The Sorcerers (1967) had been an impr…
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January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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This week on HAMMER TIME we're in Spain under a full moon with Oliver Reed (aka my dream come true) as @eofftv.bsky.social and I discuss THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961) 🌝🐺 Listen now were-ever you get your podcasts!
January 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
We're looking at a Hammer classic this week. Terence Fisher directs, Anthony Hinds writes (as John Elder) and Oliver Reed stars in The Curse of the Werewolf. Available here and in all the usual podcast outlets.

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January 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Just settling into the most recent episode of the wonderful Hammer Time, after watching ‘The Curse of the Werewolf’ (starring the fabulous Oliver Reed) last night. My hot take:
Fantastic dark fairy tale film, functional werewolf film.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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In the latest episode of HAMMER TIME, Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I split our personalities in half with THE TWO FACES OF DR JEKYLL (1960). What a *nasty* little film! 👬🏻
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM