The EOFFTV Review
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This is the home for all of the reviews that once resided on the main EOFFTV (Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film and Television) website. The EOFFTV Review was created to play host to not only the many reviews that were on the main EOFFTV site but also the weird and wonderful material formerly confined to the Kev’s Cupboard blog.
The EOFFTV Review
3d ago
On and off since 1941, in various incarnations from different publishers, Classics Illustrated has proven a popular and enduring comic magazine dedicated to adapting literary favourites, some more faithfully than others. 169 original issues have appeared over the years with many being reprinted in various formats. The brand has expanded to Classics Illustrated Junior, a ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
3d ago
Original title: Kamera o tomeru na! supin-ofu: Hariuddo daisakusen! One of the great and unexpected joys of 2017 was Shin’ichirô Ueda’s riotously silly Kamera o tomeru na!/One Cut of the Dead, a clever and witty new take on the zombie film (it’s amazing that people still keep finding new things to do with the shuffling ..read more
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3d ago
Richard Driscoll is something of a cause celebre among those who closely follow the British horror and science fiction scene. After a low-key start to his career with this deeply odd confection, in later years he would become infamous for cobbling together different films from the same footage, most of featuring B-list Hollywood types (Daryl ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
6d ago
During the dark days of World War II, Universal Pictures tried to lift sprits with a string of adventure fantasies set in exotic climes, shot in Technicolor and often featuring the same core of actors – Jon Hall, Maria Monte, Sabu and Turhan Bey were all regulars. White Savage (1943), Ali Baba and the 40 ..read more
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6d ago
!!WARNING: Contains plot spoilers!! The career of William Cameron Menzies had seen him transition from production designer (a job title he is credited with inventing) to production and direction, taking in genre films like Things to Come (1936), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), The Whip Hand (1951) and Invaders from Mars (1953) among others. His ..read more
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6d ago
Original title: Le diable est parmi nous It’s not all that hard to see Jean Beaudin’s Quebecois Satanic chiller The Possession of Virginia, shot in Montreal, has fallen into obscurity. It wasn’t a great film to begin with, but most surviving copies are from a cut prepared for American television which is both poorly dubbed ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
6d ago
Almost a decade on from his international breakthrough hit Zombi 2/Zombie/Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), Lucio Fulci found himself in the Philippines with credited writer Claudio Fragasso (in fact it was his wife Rossella Drudi who did much of the work on the script, uncredited) and producer Franco Gaudenzi for a belated follow-up. It wasn’t the ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
1w ago
Jeepers Creepers is a fairly solid horror film that gave rise to a very spotty franchise but whose reputation has been irretrievably tarnished by the previous behaviour of its director Victor Salve. Surprisingly little remarked upon at the time of the film’s release. Salva had been imprisoned for 15 months of a three-year sentence for ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
1w ago
Usually when critics start reaching for easy labels to attach to a film, one is automatically a little suspicious – they often seem like lazy comparisons forged by writers slightly baffled by the subject at hand and trying to find some way to make sense of it. In the case of Chris Nash’s Unorthodox Canadian ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
2M ago
After seven films (one actually based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft) AIP’s series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations directed by Roger Corman came to a close with The Tomb of Ligeia, based on the 1838 short story simply titled Ligeia. The task of adapting the extremely thin original into a feature film fell to ..read more