Stars: Jill Haworth, Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price, George Coulouris, Anna Palk, William Lucas, Anthony Valentine, Jack Watson, Derek Fowlds, Derek Fowlds, Gary Hamilton, Candace Glendenning, Dennis Price, Robin Askwith, Seretta Wilson | Written by Jim O’Connolly, George Baxt | Directed by Jim O’Connolly
Set in deserted lighthouse on fog-shrouded Snape Island, the terror of the Tower of Evil begins when a nude, crazed woman slaughters a sailor who visits the island. When she is taken back to civilization, she is found to possess an ancient relic; and so the authorities mount an expedition to solve a mysterious series of psycho-sexual murders…
I distinctly remember the very first time I saw Tower of Evil, it was on British TV – around the same time as the classic BBC 2 Horror double bills, so around 1993-95 – and, as someone who equated British horror with the likes of Amicus and Hammer, seeing the gloriously...
Set in deserted lighthouse on fog-shrouded Snape Island, the terror of the Tower of Evil begins when a nude, crazed woman slaughters a sailor who visits the island. When she is taken back to civilization, she is found to possess an ancient relic; and so the authorities mount an expedition to solve a mysterious series of psycho-sexual murders…
I distinctly remember the very first time I saw Tower of Evil, it was on British TV – around the same time as the classic BBC 2 Horror double bills, so around 1993-95 – and, as someone who equated British horror with the likes of Amicus and Hammer, seeing the gloriously...
- 11/27/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
“Movie Houses of Worship” is a regular feature spotlighting our favorite movie theaters around the world, those that are like temples of cinema catering to the most religious-like film geeks. This week, we highlight one of Beantown’s best in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. If you’d like to suggest or submit a place you regularly worship at the altar of cinema, please email our weekend editor. The Brattle Theatre Location: 40 Brattle St. Harvard Square, Cambridge, Ma Opened: January 27, 1890, as a theater for the Cambridge Social Union. In 1953, the Brattle became a rear-projection movie house started by future Janus Films founders Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey Jr. No. of screens: 1 Current first-run titles: The ABCs of Death. A preview of Upstream Color is screening on Tuesday ahead of next month’s official engagement of the film. Repertory programming: Full repertory programs are scheduled regularly. Currently they have “The Lubitsch Touch,” with...
- 3/17/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Canny film producer known for his horror and sci-fi classics
The producer Richard Gordon, who has died aged 85, was involved with several offbeat classics of horror and science-fiction cinema. These included Arthur Crabtree's Fiend Without a Face (1958), which climaxes with a still-astonishing siege of a power station by disembodied, tentacled, malicious human brains, and Antony Balch's Horror Hospital (1973), a lively and perverse mad-scientist satire featuring Michael Gough and Robin Askwith.
It may be that Gordon and his brother, Alex, so closely associated that many reference sources mistakenly say they were twins, were the first people to take the now-common route from movie-crazed kid to industry professional, later the path of film-makers as different as Jean-Luc Godard and Steven Spielberg. As schoolboys, the Gordons founded a film society, then wrote for fan magazines and performed menial roles on low-budget productions, always motivated by a boundless enthusiasm for the films...
The producer Richard Gordon, who has died aged 85, was involved with several offbeat classics of horror and science-fiction cinema. These included Arthur Crabtree's Fiend Without a Face (1958), which climaxes with a still-astonishing siege of a power station by disembodied, tentacled, malicious human brains, and Antony Balch's Horror Hospital (1973), a lively and perverse mad-scientist satire featuring Michael Gough and Robin Askwith.
It may be that Gordon and his brother, Alex, so closely associated that many reference sources mistakenly say they were twins, were the first people to take the now-common route from movie-crazed kid to industry professional, later the path of film-makers as different as Jean-Luc Godard and Steven Spielberg. As schoolboys, the Gordons founded a film society, then wrote for fan magazines and performed menial roles on low-budget productions, always motivated by a boundless enthusiasm for the films...
- 11/8/2011
- by Kim Newman
- The Guardian - Film News
Founder of the legendary distributor Janus Films, Cyrus Harvey, died on Thursday from complications of a stroke he had suffered four days prior. He was 85.
Teaming with actor Bryant Haliday, Harvey founded Janus Films in 1956 after converting the historic Brattle Theater, which Haliday had purchased, into an arthouse theater. Harvey and Haliday would later sell Janus to Saul J. Turell and William Becker, who ultimately turned the company over to Jonathan Turell and Peter Becker, who run The Criterion Collection.
The company is still very much involved in theatrical distribution, but of the classic side of things. With only one first-run release in thirty years (Revanche), the company is now the main backer of the Collection, and also has become quite a staple in the news, particularly after their purchase of the domestic theatrical and home video rights to the entire Charlie Chaplin library.
As a young film fan, many...
Teaming with actor Bryant Haliday, Harvey founded Janus Films in 1956 after converting the historic Brattle Theater, which Haliday had purchased, into an arthouse theater. Harvey and Haliday would later sell Janus to Saul J. Turell and William Becker, who ultimately turned the company over to Jonathan Turell and Peter Becker, who run The Criterion Collection.
The company is still very much involved in theatrical distribution, but of the classic side of things. With only one first-run release in thirty years (Revanche), the company is now the main backer of the Collection, and also has become quite a staple in the news, particularly after their purchase of the domestic theatrical and home video rights to the entire Charlie Chaplin library.
As a young film fan, many...
- 4/19/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Eva Marie Saint, Jill Haworth in Otto Preminger's Exodus Actress Jill Haworth, who was seen in a handful of movies and television shows since 1960 but who was best known as Broadway's original Sally Bowles in Cabaret, died Monday, Jan. 3, of "natural causes" at her home in Manhattan. The British-born actress was 65. Among Haworth's film appearances are three minor roles for Otto Preminger: Exodus (1960), as Sal Mineo's girlfriend; The Cardinal (1963); and In Harm's Way (1965). Haworth had larger roles in a few other movies, but those were minor fare. Among them were B-horror flicks such as It! (1967), a retelling of the Golem tale co-starring Roddy McDowall; The Haunted House of Horror (1969), opposite former teen idol Frankie Avalon and veteran Dennis Price; and Tower of Evil / Horror on Snape Island (1974), with Bryant Haliday. Considering some of the reviews the inexperienced Haworth received, her Sally Bowles [...]...
- 1/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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