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Foundational Cinema

Month: February 2017

The Headless Ghost (1959)

The Headless Ghost is set in London in England where the centuries old Ambrose Castle is a popular tourist attraction, three students Bill (Richard Lyon), Ingrid (Liliane Sottane) & Ronnie (David Rose) are taking a guided tour when talk of…

Fear Strikes Out (1957)

If this story were filmed today, the treatment would be much more stark and realistic. But for a film in the mid-50s, it provided quite a punch in conveying the agony of growing up with a loving but very demanding…

HOLY TERROR Coming this April

New Exorcist Movie ‘Holy Terror’ Coming this April Press Release – updated: Jan 30, 2017 Los Angeles, CA, January 30, 2017 (Newswire.com) – ​​​​​​​​​​​​The riveting first official teaser trailer for the new supernatural horror film HOLY TERROR was just released (see…

Prehistoric Women (1967)

“Prehistoric Women” is the most endearing and lovable of Hammer Films’ Cave Girls In Trouble films. I fell in love with it instantly during a late night creature feature screening at the age of 14 or so and pursued it…

The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

Leone served his apprenticeship in film by assisting various Italian directors as well as Walsh, Wyler and Melvyn Le Roy… By the late ’50s he was writing scripts for gladiatorial epics, the genre in which he first gained directing experience,…