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This week on HAMMER TIME we're in Spain under a full moon with Oliver Reed (aka my dream come true) as @eofftv.bsky.social and I discuss THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961) 🌝🐺 Listen now were-ever you get your podcasts!
January 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
We're looking at a Hammer classic this week. Terence Fisher directs, Anthony Hinds writes (as John Elder) and Oliver Reed stars in The Curse of the Werewolf. Available here and in all the usual podcast outlets.

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January 14, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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Just settling into the most recent episode of the wonderful Hammer Time, after watching ‘The Curse of the Werewolf’ (starring the fabulous Oliver Reed) last night. My hot take:
Fantastic dark fairy tale film, functional werewolf film.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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In the latest episode of HAMMER TIME, Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I split our personalities in half with THE TWO FACES OF DR JEKYLL (1960). What a *nasty* little film! 👬🏻
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Back after our Christmas break and this week Hammer Time takes a look at The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll. Available at all the usual podcast outlets and at share.google/rcydsgMW92KJ...
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Diamonds Are Forever (1971) saw the temporary return to Bondage of Sean Connery and it established, for good or ill, a template from which so many of the 70s Bond films would be cast.

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Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
After the box office disappointment of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (19969) and the subsequent departure of George Lazenby who listened to poor advice suggesting that the Bond films were a…
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January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
We're scraping the bottom of the barrel (again) today with a look at U.F.O. (1993), a painfully unfunny vehicle for odious "politically incorrect" comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown. Awful beyond belief.

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U.F.O. (1993)
A spectacularly dreadful year for British science fiction (it also saw work staring on Beyond Bedlam, Death Machine, Nexus and the head-scratching Welcome II the Terrordome) got under way on 17 May…
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January 2, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Jack Cardiff's The Mutations (1974) is a silly, sleazy SF/horror hybrid with Donald Pleasence trying out a daft accent, a heavily made-up Tom Baker in a floppy hat, some nudity and real-life sideshow performers. And it still manages to be very dull...

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The Mutations (1974)
Hot on the heels of a terrific turn in Death Line (1972), Donald Pleasence got a chance to try out a bizarre accent in The Mutations, shot in November 1972 but not released for almost two years, a …
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January 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
A German invasion in 1940 sends Britain down a very different course in It Happened Here (1965), a rough and ready but fascinating "alternate history" whose directors were teenage boys when they started their eight-year long production.

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It Happened Here (1965)
In the early summer of 1956, the spectre of the Second World War was haunting 18-year-old Kevin Brownlow (later an eminent film historian) and 16-year-old Andrew Mollo (who later forged a career in…
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December 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Alexander Mackendrick's The Man in the White Suit (1951) is a terrific science fiction satire from Ealing about the invention of an indestructible fabric and the effects it has on a small northern town. Alec Guinness is excellent in the title role.

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The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Perhaps the most ambitious comedy that Ealing had made so far, Alexander Mackendrick’s The Man in the White Suit went into production in February 1951. Written by Mackendrick, Roger Macdougal…
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December 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Given the people involved in it, The Satan Bug (1965) really should have been a better film. The tale of a stolen bioweapon that threaten all life on Earth, it's surprisingly stodgy and lacking in excitement.

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The Satan Bug (1965)
Based on the 1962 novel by the hugely popular British adventure thriller writer Alistair MacLean (written under the pseudonym Ian Stuart), The Satan Bug is a glossy science fiction thriller from on…
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December 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
December 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The last straw may have been added to this Christmas' review burden in the shape of yet another seasonal horror anthology, the truly dismal The Fright Before Christmas (2022) - and this thing actually got a sequel!

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The Fright Before Christmas (2022)
Dear reader, A break from the usual routine today – and God alone knows we’ve all earned it. If you’ve been following The EOFFTV Review for any length of time, first of all thank …
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December 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A few questions are asked and hopefully answered in this week's episode. Sorry if we didn't get round to yours - we will eventually!

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December 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Unholy Night (2019) is a ragged Canadian seasonal horror anthology film but one not without its charms. And this one really does have a killer elf in it so it certainly has that going for it!

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Unholy Night (2019)
This Canadian seasonal horror anthology film is the work of three different directors, Chris Chitaroni, Kristian Lariviere and Randy Smith, who all seem to have worked separately on their individua…
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December 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
And here's another one. Despite the title, The Elf (2017) is actually about a killer doll and if anything it's even more hopeless than He Knows - hard to believe, but it's horribly true...

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The Elf (2017)
What is it with horror filmmakers and deceptive films about “killer elves” that turn out to be something entirely… not about elves? He Knows (2022) turned out to be about a serial…
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December 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
He Knows (2022) is the first of two Christmas horror films we're looking at this year about killer elves - except neither of them are. This one is a dreary slasher about a masked killer styling himself Sammy the Elf...

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He Knows (2022)
A killer elf would make a refreshing change from the usual murderous Santa we get in so many Christmas horror films, which makes it all the more disappointing that actor turned director Steven Morr…
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December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984), Mickey Rooney is brought back from the dead to find an angel gone walkabout in New York and ends up shouting at everyone he meets in a very un-Christmassy way.

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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984)
It’s hard to be a cynic at Christmas. You can’t help but cast a jaundiced eye on the pap regurgitated every December in the name of festive entertainment and end up looking like a Grinc…
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December 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Demonic Christmas Tree (2022), aka The Killing Tree, a cheap tale of a serial killer reborn as a Christmas tree. Yep, it really is that daft...

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Demonic Christmas Tree (2022)
Better known perhaps by its retitling The Killing Tree, though in truth it’s still pretty obscure, this seasonal mix of outré killer, feeble gags and Christmas misery came from British horror…
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December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Cricket on the Hearth (1967) is a lacklustre Dickens adaptation from those perennial Christmas special merchants Rankin/Bass. Worth hearing for Roddy McDowell's "gor blimey guv'nor" accent but little else.

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The Cricket on the Hearth (1967)
Charles Dickens’ relationship with Christmas went beyond A Christmas Carol (1843) which was just the most famous and enduring of his six seasonal stories. It was the first and has come to lar…
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December 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A Timeless Christmas (2020) is a largely standard issue Hallmark Christmas film with an added time travel twist. Imagine a sort of Somewhere in Time (1980) in reverse and you’re getting there. It's still not any good though...

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A Timeless Christmas (2020)
It’s fairly well known that if you really, really love tacky, often tasteless and almost impossible to tell apart Christmas films, you’ll find them on the US cable channel Hallmark. Not…
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December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Edwin S. Porter's The Night Before Christmas (1905) was the first adaptation of the beloved poem and is... just what it is really. Santa is sort of interesting here, a bit ruthless perhaps, and at just 9 minutes it's an affable time filler.

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The Night Before Christmas (1905)
The 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, more commonly known these days as either The Night Before Christmas or ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas has long been a staple of Christmas entertainm…
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December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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HAMMER TIME has hit the 1960s! This week Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I chat about THE BRIDES OF DRACULA and it's a good'un! 🧛🏻‍♀️🧛🏻‍♀️ Sink your teeth in now wherever you get your podcasts
December 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? (1990) is a cross between It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Starman (1984) with Richard Mulligan as a small-town eccentric meeting alien visitor Beau Bridges.

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Guess Who’s Coming for Christmas? (1990)
Imagine, if you can, It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) crossed with Starman (1984), but with Beau instead of Jeff Bridges as the visiting alien, throw in some references to E.T. the Extraterrestri…
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December 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It wouldn’t be Christmas without at least one version of A Christmas Carol and here's the 2004 musical version starring Kelsey Grammer. And no, it's not good...

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A Christmas Carol (2004)
Hallmark’s third crack at A Christmas Carol (after the Patrick Stewart version in 1999 and the gender-swapped A Carol Christmas with Tori Spelling in the lead role from 2003) is a slickly mad…
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December 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM