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James Bond 007 Spy Movie Review: From Russia with Love (UK/USA, 1963)

A Harbinger451 James Bond 007 Spy Movie Review: From Russia with Love (UK/USA, 1963). #JamesBond #BondTwitter 60YearsOfBond #Bond60 #Bond #MovieReview #Movies

From Russia with Love Movie Poster A Harbinger451 James Bond 007 Spy Movie Review: From Russia with Love (UK/USA, 1963) Tagline: The world’s masters of murder pull out all the stops to destroy Agent 007!Content Rating: PG (originally A/12) – for mild sex and nudity, moderate violence, some smoking and alcohol use, some very mild profanity (hell x 2), and some intense and possibly disturbing…

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James Bond 007 Spy Movie Review: Dr. No (UK/USA, 1962)

A Harbinger451 James Bond 007 Spy Movie Review: Dr. No (UK/USA, 1962). #JamesBond #BondTwitter

Dr. No Movie Poster A Harbinger451 James Bond 007 Spy Movie Review: Dr. No (UK/USA, 1962) Tagline: NOW meet the most extraordinary gentleman spy in all fiction!…JAMES BOND, Agent 007!Content Rating: PG (originally A/12) – for mild sex and nudity, moderate violence, some smoking and alcohol use, and some intense and disturbing scenes.Director: Terence YoungProduction Co: Eon Productions,…

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Better Out Than In - A Science Fiction Short Story by Peter Guy Blacklock

Better Out Than In - A Science Fiction Short Story by Peter Guy Blacklock. #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ShortStory #FreeFiction #Writers #Readers

Better Out Than In – A Science Fiction Short Story by Peter Guy Blacklock This story came to me out of nowhere, but I have to admit it is immeasurably informed by a life time of reading and watching science fiction tales in one form or another. I’ve tried to stick to the Hard Scifi principle of getting the science and technology of what I’m describing as accurate as I can—wherever possible. Of…

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Swords and Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: The Archer: Fugative from the Empire (USA, 1981)

A Harbinger451 Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: The Archer: Fugative from the Empire (USA, 1981). True #fantasy fanatics will be falling over themselves to add this to their permanent movie collection. #Fantasy #SwordsAndSorcery #MovieReview #Movies

A Harbinger451 Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: The Archer: Fugative from the Empire (USA, 1981) AKA: The Archer and the Sorceress.Content Rating: PG – for fantasy action/adventure violence.Director: Nicholas J. CoreaProduction Co: Mad Dog Productions & Universal Television.Runtime: 1hr 36min. The Archer: Fugative from the Empire is the first in an intended series of TV movies for NBC,…

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A Legacy of Dirt: The Shunned Place — A Tale of Lovecraftian Noir by Peter Guy Blacklock — Chapter Two: Dissolute Progeny

Okay, here's chapter two of my upcoming #Lovecraftian #Horror #Noir novella/novel. I'll probablt tease a couple more chapters before release hopefully sometime later this year of the final thing. #amwriting

A Legacy of Dirt: The Shunned Place — A Tale of Lovecraftian Noir by Peter Guy Blacklock — Chapter Two: Dissolute Progeny I have finally got round to editing the second chapter of my Lovecraftian Horror, hard-boiled Noir mashup. A newly finalised Chapter One can be found HERE, if you haven’t already read it. This tale was originally intended to be a novella (of about 40,000 words), but may now…

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Swords and Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Clash of the Titans (UK/USA, 1981)

A Harbinger451 Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Clash of the Titans (UK/USA, 1981) - Ray Harryhausen's last stop-motion animation movie and not one of his best, but still entertaining and with some excellent set pieces. #Myth #Fantasy #MovieReviews

A Harbinger451 Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Clash of the Titans (UK/USA, 1981) Tagline: An Epic Entertainment Spectacular! | Experience The Fantastic! | You will feel the power. Live the adventure. Experience the fantastic.Content Rating: 12 – for moderate fantasy/adventure violence with some blood and gore, some mild horror and some mild nudity.Director: Desmond DavisProduction Co:…

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Swords and Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Jason and the Argonauts (UK/USA, 1963)

A Harbinger451 Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Jason and the Argonauts (UK/USA, 1963) - a stone cold classic of the genre that's choc full of iconic scenes and includes the stop-motion-animation of FX god Ray Harryhausen. #Fantasy #MovieReview

A Harbinger451 Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Jason and the Argonauts (UK/USA, 1963) Tagline: Greatest Odyssey Of The Ages – for the first time on the screen | SEE! The Adventure That Stunned the World…And the Mighty Men Who Conquered It! | The epic story that was destined to stand as a colossus of adventure!Content Rating: PG – for fantasy/adventure violence with some blood and some…

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Swords and Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Deathstalker (Argentina/USA, 1983)

Review of Deathstalker (1983). This cheap and tacky Conan wannabe borders on the sleazy and nasty, but it has a certain flair for action and violence, and it doesn't let its low budget limit its ambition. #SwordAndSorcery #Fantasy #MovieReview

A Harbinger451 Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Deathstalker (Argentina/USA, 1983) Tagline: The Might of the Sword… The Evil of the Sorcerer…Content Rating: 15 – for nudity, sexuality, rape, bloody violence and drunkeness.Director: James SbardellatiProduction Co: Aries Cinematográfica & Roger Corman’s New World Pictures.Runtime: 1hr 20min. It’s tempting to say this is just another dumb…

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Swords and Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Hawk the Slayer (UK, 1980)

The first of my Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Reviews is Hawk the Slayer (UK, 1980) - the very definition of a Sword and Sorcery cult classic. It literally is "so bad it's good". A "guilty pleasure" if ever there was one. #Fantasy #MovieReview

A Harbinger451 Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movie Review: Hawk the Slayer (UK, 1980) Tagline: Two brothers locked in deadly combat till the end of time!Content Rating: PG – for mild fantasy action/adventure violence and some mild horror.Director: Terry MarcelProduction Co: ITC Entertainment, Marcel/Robertson Productions Ltd & Chips Productions.Runtime: 1hr 34min. This movie is the very definition…

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List of Notable Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movies: the good & the bad, the best & the worst.

List of Notable Swords & Sorcery Fantasy Movies: the good & the bad, the best & the worst.

Notable Swords and Sorcery Fantasy Movies: the good and the bad, the best and the worst. As far as this list is concerned, the Sword and Sorcery film genre includes heroic, epic or dark fantasies taking place in a (mostly) pre-industrialised, historical or pseudo-historical setting. They must be tales of high adventure and (generally) feature magical, mythical or supernatural beasts, beings or…

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A Legacy of Dirt: The Shunned Place — A Tale of Lovecraftian Noir by Peter Guy Blacklock — Chapter One: There’s A Killer on the Road...

A Legacy of Dirt: The Shunned Place — A Tale of Lovecraftian Noir by Peter Guy Blacklock — Chapter One: There’s A Killer on the Road…

A Legacy of Dirt: The Shunned Place — A Tale of Lovecraftian Noir by Peter Guy Blacklock — Chapter One: There’s A Killer on the Road…

Here I present to you a newly edited version of the first chapter to my Lovecraftian Horror, hard-boiled Noir mashup. An earlier draft of this chapter is available in the previous post HERE. Initially I was going to update that post with this new version, but then…

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Sneak Peek at a Haunted House, Noir, Lovecraftian Horror mashup by Peter Guy Blacklock - an Exercise in cliché Management

Sneak Peek at a Haunted House, Noir, Lovecraftian Horror mashup by Peter Guy Blacklock – an Exercise in cliché Management

Sneak Peek at a Haunted House, Noir and Lovecraftian Horror mashup by Peter Guy Blacklock – an Exercise in cliché Management

I’ve always wanted to write my own version of the classic haunted house mystery/horror trope, one that would bring in elements of hard-boiled Noir and sanity shredding Lovecraftian Horror. I was inspired to finally write it when I happened upon an article on Wikipedia about…

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Rose Blood by Peter Guy Blacklock

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Lovecraftian Horror Movie Review: The Untamed (2016), A Mexican Tentacle Sex Monster Movie!

Lovecraftian Horror Movie Review: The Untamed (2016), A Mexican Tentacle Sex Monster Movie!

The Untamed (Amat Escalante, Mexico. 2016), A Mexican Tentacle Sex Monster Movie!

Fair Warning: this article discusses a film which features an explicit tentacle sex monster, if this concept makes you uncomfortable in any way THEN YOU ARE ADVISED THAT CONTINUING TO READ FROM THIS POINT FORWARD IS TO UNNECESSARILY INFLICT PSYCHIC DISTRESS UPON YOURSELF! Perhaps you could look at pictures of…

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Universal Truth #3. Death is Inevitable ... Read it and Weep, People!

Universal Truth #3. Death is Inevitable … Read it and Weep, People!

Universal Truth #3. Death is Inevitable … Read it and Weep, People!

Death WILL call on us all… sooner or later, somehow or other – we all will die.

The inevitability of death is a truth that has haunted us, the living, since time immemorial. It may well be a sad truth, a dark truth, an unpalatable truth and yes, a brutal and truly terrifying truth – but it is still a truth nonetheless. There is…

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Rose Blood: The Phantasmagoriad Book One - An Anti-Verse Tale by Peter Guy Blacklock

Rose Blood: The Phantasmagoriad Book One – An Anti-Verse Tale by Peter Guy Blacklock

Rose Blood: The Phantasmagoriad Book One – An Anti-Verse Tale by Peter Guy Blacklock

Rose Blood, this debut novel by Peter Guy Blacklock, is the first book in a trilogy of breakneck, erotically charged, Gothic fairy-tales set in an alternate world full of gruesome horrors, dark fantasies, twisted trysts and hard-boiled heroics; peopled with unique characters, many of whom subvert genre norms, and…

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The Anti-Verse Tales series of eBooks and Web-fictions by Peter Guy Blacklock

The Anti-Verse Tales series of eBooks and Web-fictions by Peter Guy Blacklock

The Anti-Verse Tales series of eBooks and Web-fictions by Peter Guy Blacklock

Introducing the Anti-Verse Tales, an ongoing series of short stories, novellas and novels from Peter Guy Blacklock in both eBook and web-fiction formats – set within the Anti-Verse that is Gaea Parallaxis. The Anti-Verseis not another universe, it is simply the flip side of ours, equal and opposite… a dark Alternate…