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Written by James M. Tate / 7/02/2025 / No comments / adrienne cori , anthony higgins , christine paul , circus , david prowse , hammer films , horror , john moulder-brown , lalla ward , lynne frederick , robert tayman , seventies , thorley walters

LYNNE FREDERICK & ADRIENNE CORRI IN HAMMER'S 'VAMPIRE CIRCUS'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikVblgpgEvPxGJ3s3xmarFly7wwaSbE1vg4q8sQY-aMGNm-iwKgsjUR-3AymVBGfQuSPbfFXIsnN3mdR_yrZzdSNYhT7OGERGAUL_QZtICUTh9igf29NQ3cu8vPQiunnoNLPONGe9vuMUx01IsVwOd4VKpmGLqEDHNGXRoAtyfRdYUF3_K-FdNs-Lbbnft/s2372/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-29%20at%2010.00.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1346" data-original-width="2372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikVblgpgEvPxGJ3s3xmarFly7wwaSbE1vg4q8sQY-aMGNm-iwKgsjUR-3AymVBGfQuSPbfFXIsnN3mdR_yrZzdSNYhT7OGERGAUL_QZtICUTh9igf29NQ3cu8vPQiunnoNLPONGe9vuMUx01IsVwOd4VKpmGLqEDHNGXRoAtyfRdYUF3_K-FdNs-Lbbnft/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-29%20at%2010.00.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lynne Frederick in VAMPIRE CIRCUS Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>Hammer's VAMPIRE CIRCUS is like two movies in one, both showcasing different horror sub-genres, each element built into the title... as the first and final acts involve an ominous vampire's castle... Beginning with a creepy intro involving a very young girl facing Dracula surrogate Robert Tayman as Count Mitterhaus, and it's no surprise that Hammer does Victorian horror effectively, looking as elegantly terrorizing as their salad days of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee...

adrienne cori, anthony higgins, christine paul, circus, david prowse, hammer films, horror, john moulder-brown, lalla ward, lynne frederick, robert tayman, seventies, thorley walters

LYNNE FREDERICK & ADRIENNE CORRI IN HAMMER'S 'VAMPIRE CIRCUS'

Lynne Frederick in VAMPIRE CIRCUS Year: 1972 Rating: ***1/2 Hammer's VAMPIRE CIRCUS is like two movies in one, both showcasing different...

PETER SELLERS AND LYNNE FREDERICK IN 'THE PRISONER OF ZENDA'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jx1bOiwLlwzgLlBJaFm1HGMy57bM1Iy4GT7Bu1esMNCr-KYYosbYJFTawRVcddR7Gt9A4xHudvPvk07tSz1DTcVjTOlpEHwMVf_vWumoRU8VhgH81WaLbgvhl_QL0BfoWOWgMAp8_hIdEAORxAfm7KSsAB0r-mG2mDXLVa3hILrRM7Kt9rpqEnv_wapU/s2734/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-03%20at%207.57.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="2734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jx1bOiwLlwzgLlBJaFm1HGMy57bM1Iy4GT7Bu1esMNCr-KYYosbYJFTawRVcddR7Gt9A4xHudvPvk07tSz1DTcVjTOlpEHwMVf_vWumoRU8VhgH81WaLbgvhl_QL0BfoWOWgMAp8_hIdEAORxAfm7KSsAB0r-mG2mDXLVa3hILrRM7Kt9rpqEnv_wapU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-07-03%20at%207.57.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lynne Frederick in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Year: 1979 Rating: **</td></tr></tbody></table>While it had been decades since the two Golden Age adaptations of the literary classic THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, it had only been four-years since the otherwise unrelated ROYAL FLASH borrowed the exact same plot-line, with Malcolm McDowell as a prince's lookalike marrying a gorgeous princess played by Britt Ekland... Who was Peter Sellers' second wife, and his first Hollywood trophy wife while Lynne Frederick, his third (and final) marriage, plays the exact same role as the chastely oblivious royal bride...

adaptation, adventure, catherine schell, comedy, elke sommer, graham stark, lionel jeffries, lynne frederick, peter sellers, seventies, stuart wilson, time-period

PETER SELLERS AND LYNNE FREDERICK IN 'THE PRISONER OF ZENDA'

Lynne Frederick in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Year: 1979 Rating: ** While it had been decades since the two Golden Age adaptations of the literar...

LYNNE FREDERICK, NIGEL DAVENPORT & MICHAEL MURPHY 'PHASE IV'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3n7BgTEXQW_CZi-jLcI-MRuHbekF660eBpc1jdUqD0JnoAXzBlEKwNwOqyor4tBR7Zm0e35Uazq38yOjBfo2oegThuIXj7cfGiaIFuzCiED4r_p0o93Vnv9optCTn4ApETuIL4R68xn6yb39qzTiakcBWFUGH0bzd_rzO2ZUp2ujB9i7JbdM_QhAaipEn/s2330/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-29%20at%208.45.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1258" data-original-width="2330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3n7BgTEXQW_CZi-jLcI-MRuHbekF660eBpc1jdUqD0JnoAXzBlEKwNwOqyor4tBR7Zm0e35Uazq38yOjBfo2oegThuIXj7cfGiaIFuzCiED4r_p0o93Vnv9optCTn4ApETuIL4R68xn6yb39qzTiakcBWFUGH0bzd_rzO2ZUp2ujB9i7JbdM_QhAaipEn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-29%20at%208.45.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lynne Frederick in PHASE IV Year: 1974 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>The science-fiction cult curio PHASE
 IV stands out above all other ant-driven horror films in that
director Saul Bass, famous for his opening credit sequences... takes us 
extremely close and tightly cerebral to the subjects at hand, providing a
 sort of Einstein at the Drive-In...And PHASE has Bass all alone, with animation replaced by what seems, 
aesthetically, a post-apocalyptic, rural location where ants are taking 
(or have already taken) over. Here's where Nigel Davenport's scientist Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs is teamed 
with a younger, less informed but just as essential Michael Murphy 
as James R. Lesko: holed-up in a domed structure receiving various codes
 on that-era's giant computers...

ants, body count, creature, horror, lynne frederick, michael murphy, post-apocalyptic, saul bass, science-fiction, seventies

LYNNE FREDERICK, NIGEL DAVENPORT & MICHAEL MURPHY 'PHASE IV'

Lynne Frederick in PHASE IV Year: 1974 Rating: **** The science-fiction cult curio PHASE IV stands out above all other ant-driven horror fi...

LYNNE FREDERICK AND STEPHANIE BEACHAM STALKING 'SCHIZO'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDFkFXWc0-9dyWlrp73h68Vd2iNyjHkKfF0ZP86O_orVWkO6qUPr4F4BJc0E6GIB1-NgIvORtv3KFokzC67IgK3dPG7sI5yjYVbzLOjHRQ52AZtf0Zmd-34k9rFve-VVjLShlIbOPlpmNOrSuRQ4YcC0zzKuewjgNbaABwpSz9EZfukxetKBM3na-FV0In/s1412/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-28%20at%2012.32.13%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="1412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDFkFXWc0-9dyWlrp73h68Vd2iNyjHkKfF0ZP86O_orVWkO6qUPr4F4BJc0E6GIB1-NgIvORtv3KFokzC67IgK3dPG7sI5yjYVbzLOjHRQ52AZtf0Zmd-34k9rFve-VVjLShlIbOPlpmNOrSuRQ4YcC0zzKuewjgNbaABwpSz9EZfukxetKBM3na-FV0In/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-28%20at%2012.32.13%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lynne Frederick in SCHIZO Year: 1975 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Controversial low-budget-exploitation director Pete Walker comparably taking a more traditional horror/slasher route in what's still a groundbreaking horror/slasher suspense flick SCHIZO that, like its primary inspiration PSYCHO, plays deliberately on a twist that envelopes pretty much everyone and everything... All while being deliberately contrived into an overly-obvious antagonistic lens on old, troubled and seemingly psychotic Jack Watson, desperately attempting to reunite with daughter Lynne Frederick, a championship skater about to be married to a man far too old and dull for someone so young and downright gorgeous...

body count, horror, jack watson, john leyton, lynne frederick, pete walker, seventies, stephanie beacham, thriller

LYNNE FREDERICK AND STEPHANIE BEACHAM STALKING 'SCHIZO'

Lynne Frederick in SCHIZO Year: 1975 Rating: **** Controversial low-budget-exploitation director Pete Walker comparably taking a more tradit...

PETER SELLERS ENDS WITH 'THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xppi-8GlXFVspZLVI4UBhcmuRRCO2QFt35IDkf45x_ZlQTDhfWk2hlrl0fpzJv644v-owt_zVrSZyhNAPDoR6YkAWg9CyfDU4QXtRnt6Ol4p4R7nXL5kBwWFJEStC6p1gXWHjlOYjVwVoNuQXrC5d9Iigxnt61KSKeSIXLJ3oEWyfDruez9bTMozxvAs/s400/01.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="400" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4xppi-8GlXFVspZLVI4UBhcmuRRCO2QFt35IDkf45x_ZlQTDhfWk2hlrl0fpzJv644v-owt_zVrSZyhNAPDoR6YkAWg9CyfDU4QXtRnt6Ol4p4R7nXL5kBwWFJEStC6p1gXWHjlOYjVwVoNuQXrC5d9Iigxnt61KSKeSIXLJ3oEWyfDruez9bTMozxvAs/s320/01.jpeg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Year: 1980 Rating: **1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>What Peter Sellers' final motion picture, THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU, has in common with his most popular franchise, THE PINK PANTHER, is that both parody James Bond: Especially 1976's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/04/StrikesAgain.html">PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN</a>, so over-the-top similar to the Roger Moore outings that MANCHU feels like a homage of a homage. But there's also the Christopher Lee MANCHU b-flicks and before that, Boris Karloff... 
 
Sellers was obviously a fan of both as this was he and trophy wife Lynne Frederick's labor-of-love going through several directors, which shows since many overlong scenes lack any direction at all wherein, as usual, Sellers plays several roles, particularly pulp author Sax Rohmer's Tong-lord supervillain and his dogged Scotland Yard investigator Nayland Smith. In both parts, Sellers, who died not long after production wrapped, seems too old and tired to not only pull off genuinely humorous performances but to move along an already convoluted and sometimes downright confusing story (one particular scheme involving an obese guard of a British diamond is a time-wasting mess)...

comedy, david tomlinson, eighties, helen mirren, lynne frederick, parody, peter sellers, sid caesar, steve franken