Showing posts with label christopher neame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christopher neame. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2025

Three Species You're Out

 

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SPECIES 3-2004-Two soldiers are driving an ambulance with the thought to be dead Eve but Eve (Natasha Henstridge) comes back to life and gives birth just before she is strangled to death by one of her offspring, a young boy with a tentacle for a tongue. One guy is killed but the driver who is actually Dr. Abbott (Robert Knepper), a college professor, escapes with the newborn. Soon the baby is a little girl named Sara. Abbott who is obviously mad (and whispers a lot) wants to become famous in “the pantheon of science”. He enlists one of his students Dean (Robin Dunn) to help him. Sara (Sunny Mabrey) grows to adult very fast and walks around naked. She kills the head of Dean's department (Christopher Neame). When Dean wants to call the cops, Abbott convinces him it's all for science. Dopey Dean agrees to help him. Sara's not interested in mating with humans. She's looking for someone like her. Something called The Tokamak. A fusion reactor comes in handy in the climax. 

Unfortunately, the end sets up another sequel. Director Brad Turner was pretty prolific on TV until sometime convinced him directing this useless sequel would be a good idea.

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Saturday, October 14, 2017

Drac vs. Mods


DRACULA AD-1972-A group of Mods perform a black mass in an abandoned church. Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame)), their leader mixes his blood with the dried blood of Count Dracula and brings him back to (un-dead) life. His first victim is played by Caroline Munro. Van Helsing's grandson (Peter Cushing) has a daughter Jessica (Stephanie Beacham) Drac wants. He kidnaps her but granddad tracks them down and he and Drac have a showdown where Van Helsing uses a silver dagger, holy water and a shovel to beat the king of vampires and reduce his body to ooze. 

This, the seventh Dracula Hammer film and the sixth to star Lee in the title role was directed by Alan Gibson who would also direct the last of the series THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA the next year. Screenwriter Don Houghton also penned SATANIC RITES, SHATTER and THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES and many episodes of Doctor Who. For years DRACULA AD has been much maligned by critics and fans. There's really nothing to it but in retrospect it's an enjoyable time capsule.

In America DRACULA AD played on a double bill with CRESCENDO (also directed by Gibson).

http://moviemeltdown.blogspot.com/2017/01/hammer.html 

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