Kiss of the Vampire

Kiss of the Vampire – not to be confused with Vampire’s Kiss – is a lip-smacking good time. Despite the absence of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, who alone or together were in nine Dracula Hammer Films (with Cushing also in the third installment of the Count Karstein trilogy, Twins of Evil) Kiss of theContinue reading “Kiss of the Vampire”

Revisiting Meatcleaver Massacre

Meatcleaver Massacre features an Egyptologist, but Celtic, rather than Egyptian lore, and top billing for one minute of Christopher Lee, who thought he was going to be in a different film and nearly sued as a result. And most tellingly, absolutely, positively, no meat cleavers! Meatcleaver Massacre is another one of those wonky, idiosyncratic 70sContinue reading “Revisiting Meatcleaver Massacre”