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
23h ago
It’s been said many times before that when he was interested in and engaged with a project that Freddie Francis could be as a good a director of horror films as any of his contemporaries and considerably better than some. Unfortunately, by the early to mid-1970s, whatever interest he had in the genre seems to ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
5d ago
When the fantasy comedy series Glam Metal Detectives (“a new TV comic!”) was first broadcast on BBC Two in 1995 (the only time it was seen on mainstream television in the UK), a continuity announcer cautioned us that soon, we’d all be humming or singing it. “It” was just about the only song performed by ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
6d ago
Tired of an endless stream of air-headed teens and 20-somethings being served up as cannon fodder in slasher films? Larry Yust’s Homebodies might just be the antidote you’re looking for. Yust is the son of Walter Yust, a former editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica from 1938 to 1960 and early in his career Yust junior ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
1w ago
Old Mother Riley was an odd one to say the least. An Irish washerwoman (with barely discernible accent) played by an English man (Arthur Lucan) with a grown-up daughter played, in the early part of the characters career, by Lucan’s wife Kitty McShane, Old Mother Riley was a screeching harridan born in the British music ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
1w ago
Although he anticipated the sexual revolution in works like Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901) and was something of an advocate for what would become known as “free love”, one has to wonder quite what H.G. Wells would have made of Derek Todd taking the name ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
1w ago
David Gordon Green didn’t endear himself to many horror fans over his (mis)handling of his Halloween sequel trilogy, Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022) so the news that he was going to take on another beloved genre property, The Exorcist (1973), in a new trilogy was met with considerable apprehension. And it ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
3w ago
Semyon Timoshenko’s Russian science fiction film is one of the more obscure offerings on The EOFFTV Review, a film that doesn’t seem to have been widely exported – certainly there’s no known official English language title, the original translating as Napoleon Gas. It survives in a frustratingly incomplete print, with certainly the last few minutes ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
3w ago
It’s hard to tell if producers Republic intended Valley of the Zombies to be a comedy. It’s certainly very funny at times, but it was supposed to be that way? Who knows. The title is certainly misleading – there’s no valley and only one zombie, and a strange one at that, more of a mad ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
3w ago
Original title: Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht For many years, Jesus Franco’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel was touted as one of the more faithful takes on the novel. And while it’s true that it includes much that has been ignored or skipped over by all other versions, its claims to verisimilitude crumble at even the ..read more
The EOFFTV Review
1M ago
Time has been kind to Douglas Cheek’s C.H.U.D. First viewed in the 1980s, it seemed disappointing, rather tame in fact compared to some of the other horror and science fiction films made around the same time (C.H.U.D. went into production in the summer of 1983, three years after pre-production work first started, and had a ..read more