MEL BROOKS PRESENTS DAVID LYNCH'S ICONIC 'THE ELEPHANT MAN'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEhh-z-YOkkJdTZ9nmgkZ0ZrfHRN6Sqkw1b9Q0ORg2a6dkbOTunWlYiLqzZWpiO5m-Q-Erk2qAzJm3YErGniwUOhZ5gpwhebH7jnga0DzlWeNx_kF_7w8E9X-ftxLvWxtKVpu5UXHB-cP5F-J0S0lDH33YTZN0dHDz-v-c8f6Rv8pqeiQi8Q6locj4tGUxDz/s1786/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-22%20at%201.37.58%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="1786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-z-YOkkJdTZ9nmgkZ0ZrfHRN6Sqkw1b9Q0ORg2a6dkbOTunWlYiLqzZWpiO5m-Q-Erk2qAzJm3YErGniwUOhZ5gpwhebH7jnga0DzlWeNx_kF_7w8E9X-ftxLvWxtKVpu5UXHB-cP5F-J0S0lDH33YTZN0dHDz-v-c8f6Rv8pqeiQi8Q6locj4tGUxDz/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-22%20at%201.37.58%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Anthony Hopkins in David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN Year: 1980 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After the bleak B&W, nightmarishly bizarre ERASERHEAD, otherwise comedy producer Mel Brooks hired offbeat auteur David Lynch to provide 1880's England the same kind of Industrial-doomed, smokestack-bursting aesthetic...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet what's expected of Lynch's signature weirdness (before and after), THE ELEPHANT MAN mostly plays out like an against-the-odds high school bully flick... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anne bancroft, anthony hopkins, british, david lynch, eighties, freddie francis, freddie jones, frederick treves, hannah gordon, history, john geilgud, time period

MEL BROOKS PRESENTS DAVID LYNCH'S ICONIC 'THE ELEPHANT MAN'

Anthony Hopkins in David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN Year: 1980 Rating: **** After the bleak B&W, nightmarishly bizarre ERASERHEAD, oth...

PETER CUSHING IN HAMMER'S 'FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEi6K30jalFBBX6nNXMrmxGhQVvwso3dWNVvu3G0Ch4iBOlSRbap2-a1jxgtWIXhk26XzmUXTMs13UwpjV8zAxelbIzRhDvp5Q-JOc188ws4t_6hfPOHkYiCSblURPyijQ7VYdwfJV4YlUHps7GxlOwtCqAQiEdTw5n2DfYoL2iGthTII9ghNeKQAAyR4sEd/s2034/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-07%20at%208.45.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1388" data-original-width="2034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6K30jalFBBX6nNXMrmxGhQVvwso3dWNVvu3G0Ch4iBOlSRbap2-a1jxgtWIXhk26XzmUXTMs13UwpjV8zAxelbIzRhDvp5Q-JOc188ws4t_6hfPOHkYiCSblURPyijQ7VYdwfJV4YlUHps7GxlOwtCqAQiEdTw5n2DfYoL2iGthTII9ghNeKQAAyR4sEd/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-07%20at%208.45.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED Year: 1969 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Penultimate FRANKENSTEIN film for Hammer's most prolific director Terence Fisher, who made <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/01/cushingcurse.html">THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN</a> that got the ball rolling a year before their more famous, <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/01/horrordrac.html">HORROR OF DRACULA</a>, which he also directed and where Peter Cushing plays intense good guy Van Helsing...<br><br>As Baron Frankenstein, he began a kind of misunderstood idealist more than the mad, mad scientist he'd turn into... but the title of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/01/FMBD.html">FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED</a> suits a film in which... for Peter Cushing and blonde <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/01/hipsterdrac.html">DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAV</a>E bombshell Veronica Carlson... was a catastrophe because of one quick scene...</p><p><span></span></p>

frankenstein, freddie jones, hammer films, peter cushing, simon ward, sixties, terence fisher, veronica carlson

PETER CUSHING IN HAMMER'S 'FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED'

Title: FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED Year: 1969 Rating: ** Penultimate FRANKENSTEIN film for Hammer's most prolific director Terence Fi...

CUSHING/LEE RETURN IN HAMMER'S 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEgMLj6wsNMvmOObbLjC4P1KaZdU3v2CbQeM-op0_xy4s3Mb3q43cx0jF2nTEZFQBsv-B6e8JP_ZhOczoF6rX7TyWZECWL0K9xfd4zx6SK9nLVMXj8UHrjMlNPUIG6xlNrgrCcBEWEgiocPjuRC-8EzogmKi1fuRXzfHmKIsEnyY3Hw-8IJA3y4UB9HQJO5J/s1984/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-03%20at%207.56.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1984" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLj6wsNMvmOObbLjC4P1KaZdU3v2CbQeM-op0_xy4s3Mb3q43cx0jF2nTEZFQBsv-B6e8JP_ZhOczoF6rX7TyWZECWL0K9xfd4zx6SK9nLVMXj8UHrjMlNPUIG6xlNrgrCcBEWEgiocPjuRC-8EzogmKi1fuRXzfHmKIsEnyY3Hw-8IJA3y4UB9HQJO5J/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-01-03%20at%207.56.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing in THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hammer's THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA shouldn't be considered Christopher Lee's seventh Dracula but his 2nd... after <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/drac72.html">DRACULA A. D. 1972</a>, which brought the famous vampire from the signature Victorian-era into the 20th Century including hippies, nightclubs, night parties and one important seance...<br><br>But that was then... and now, two years later, there's a reclusive billionaire inside a spooky corporate building shot in murky wide angle lenses... actually looking more antique Gothic than Dracula's awakening church from 1972...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

body-count, christopher lee, dracula, franchise, freddie jones, hammer films, joanna lumley, michael coles, peter cushing, thriller, vampire, william franklyn

CUSHING/LEE RETURN IN HAMMER'S 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA'

Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing in THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 Hammer's THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA shou...

TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEjRsIWkuznV8q00gUF9h2ZC5HdX13RUGaKj8XiaTlAjIZHrKobN6C2L5gc9hA38uBxXzhzoMggaqflJrAPhg4Vkqkf2GQ7m0QtcEk0qMTnfBclMkTDlqH4eRAkXtSjNLFvt8fcYPA4ltIoFld8ZfOeP_LUg5LlUIc_JeFWhEOOaUa4jqL20zwdDZSB287nE/s2452/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-16%20at%202.31.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="2452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsIWkuznV8q00gUF9h2ZC5HdX13RUGaKj8XiaTlAjIZHrKobN6C2L5gc9hA38uBxXzhzoMggaqflJrAPhg4Vkqkf2GQ7m0QtcEk0qMTnfBclMkTDlqH4eRAkXtSjNLFvt8fcYPA4ltIoFld8ZfOeP_LUg5LlUIc_JeFWhEOOaUa4jqL20zwdDZSB287nE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-16%20at%202.31.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role for Tom Courtenay before returning to and remaining with the Royal Stage until his comeback in THE DRESSER. Despite earning an Oscar nomination, those very long thirteen-years had changed the scrawny, scowling, hungry rebellious youth into a mellow middle-aged man who could still act — but visually it was like replacing James Dean with Jimmy Dean... <br> <br> OTLEY was also a reunion of two young cronies from Courtenay's star-making LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER with James Bolam as one of several antique dealers along Fleet Street, England, where Courtenay's Gerald Otley hardly makes a living, starting out being kicked out of one flat and desperately seeking another...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

action, alan badel, british new wave, fiona lewis, freddie jones, james bolam, james maxwell, james villiers, lenoard rossiter, leonard rossiter, romy schneider, spoof, spy, tom courtenay, wrong man

TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: **** At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role f...

DOUGLAS HICKOX SHOOTING OLIVER REED FOR 'SITTING TARGET'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><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/AVvXsEg2D8ZnmOmUZdswsoA_rOofyQ6L_SgDlhI29cK3BihlqUf8uBX284hdOneuQ-asFirMUzsgTf0vCwlU_1kzp60SWUMN9xSfV2NdXIg8NXfLUt_wpYgiQiEiQGQf-z14-i9G6khcrmubnaKRjuYGJP3kY8ULZin2zxEdzCZWghxIwC1yvXh6FYfdJ-ZtMJVe/s2512/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-12%20at%2010.00.05%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="2512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2D8ZnmOmUZdswsoA_rOofyQ6L_SgDlhI29cK3BihlqUf8uBX284hdOneuQ-asFirMUzsgTf0vCwlU_1kzp60SWUMN9xSfV2NdXIg8NXfLUt_wpYgiQiEiQGQf-z14-i9G6khcrmubnaKRjuYGJP3kY8ULZin2zxEdzCZWghxIwC1yvXh6FYfdJ-ZtMJVe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-12%20at%2010.00.05%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Oliver Reed in SITTING TARGET Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When long-time locked-up convict Oliver Reed breaks out of prison to kill wife Jill St. John for getting pregnant without him, it seems a solo effort despite having a buddy right alongside since Ian McShane's his dead-ringer/doppelganger...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In fact, both seem like the same character, only one's younger, more shady and sexually-active while our volatile anti-hero has the kind of seething tunnel-vision liken to Michael Caine from this film's obvious muse GET CARTER, only with far less last names/red herrings and a much simpler plot i.e. almost none at all... </p><p><span></span></p>

british new wave, douglas hickox, edward woodward, exploitation, frank finley, freddie jones, ian mcshane, jailbreak, jill st. john, jill townsend, oliver reed, revenge, robert beatty, seventies, tony beckley

DOUGLAS HICKOX SHOOTING OLIVER REED FOR 'SITTING TARGET'

Oliver Reed in SITTING TARGET Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 When long-time locked-up convict Oliver Reed breaks out of prison to kill wife Jill...