Category Archives: Pete’s Peek

Pete’s Peek | Nightbirds and The Body Beneath – resurrecting the twisted cinema of Andy Milligan

Posted on 25 May 2012 by peter

The reason why I love the BFI’s Flipside series is their ability to unearth genuine nuggets of cinematic obscurities. Their latest find is the dark demented cinema of the 1960s fleapit filmmaker, Andy Milligan. Now, I have only ever heard … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Dare you enter the House of Pain on the Island of Lost Souls?

Posted on 18 May 2012 by peter

Alongside Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein and Freaks, 1933’s Island of Lost Souls ranks as one of the best classic horror films. But its controversial story, gruesome (at the time) vivisection scenes, and poor distribution has kept it virtually hidden from … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | The sublime 1950s Italian fantasy Miracle in Milan is a ray of sunshine in a cynical age

Posted on 16 May 2012 by peter

In between making his gritty neo-realist masterpieces Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D, Italian director Vittorio De Sica lens the fantasy Miracle in Milan, a modern-day fable that would earned him the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1951. Francesco Golisano (who … Continue reading →

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Exploring the erotic world of 1970s underground film-maker Peter de Rome

Posted on 11 May 2012 by peter

As part of the BFI’s remit to archive the films of all British artists comes the DVD collection The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome – probably the most risqué of all of the BFI’s archived film material as it … Continue reading →

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Feast your eyes on the shocking poster for Sam Raimi’s new chiller, The Possession

Posted on 11 May 2012 by peter

Attention horror fans! Here’s the teaser poster for the forthcoming supernatural chiller, which is being produced by Sam Raimi. The Possession stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick battling a dibbuk, a malevolent spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Step into the Sixth Dimension with Danny Elfman’s 1980s musical fantasy Forbidden Zone

Posted on 9 May 2012 by peter

Danny Elfman is best known for his many film and TV scores – from Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands to the annoyingly catchy Desperate Housewives theme tune – but did you know he started his music career in a 1970s/1980s synth … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | The horrible Dr Freudstein and his House by the Cemetery re-opens for business on Blu-ray

Posted on 4 May 2012 by peter

Following his cult undead masterpiece, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Italy’s Lucio Fulci lensed his Gates of Hell trilogy – The Beyond, City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery. One of the 39 video nasties banned in the … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | The Masters of Cinema’s timely re-release of Hitchcock’s wartime drama Lifeboat

Posted on 2 May 2012 by peter

Alfred Hitchcock has long been regarded as the Master of Suspense, but he was also pretty good at propaganda judging from the Masters of Cinema release of Lifeboat (1944), which was his direct response to the ongoing war in Europe. … Continue reading →

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Create your own ghoulish creature of the night and win a Demons goody bag

Posted on 27 April 2012 by peter

Out on Monday 30 April from Arrow Films comes the limited edition deluxe versions of Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s blood-curdling zombie horror classics Demons and Demons 2 as restored Blu-ray, DVD and Steelbook editions, alongside Demons 3, an exclusive … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | The Saint vs The Falcon – two classic 1940s mystery series get a UK DVD release

Posted on 19 April 2012 by peter

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, RKO Pictures made a popular series of hard-boiled thrillers starring Leslie Charteris’s hero The Saint, with George Sanders in the role that Vincent Price originally made famous on radio. Following Louis Hayward’s attempt … Continue reading →

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