#Tigon British Film Productions

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SEMANA SATÁN 11

BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW (1971)

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Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) 🕯️

Director: Vernon Sewell (Tigon British Film Productions) Genres: Mystery, Horror, Occult 🧙‍♀️ Notes: Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Rupert Davis, generational curse, witches, cult, great sets, sex/debauchery, nudity, FX kaleidoscope, hypnotism, Romance

Review: Film starts off with a great opening score then jumps to a whole lot of cultists in BDSM gear that I was not expecting right out the gate, these outfits were a hoot and a half to witness. This film is full of surprises and great sets. With a villainess that feels almost alien and a cast of fantastic horror legends, this film is full of witchcraft and sexy cult rituals! Overall I give Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968): Must Watch 😈

-Warnings for Folks- Nudity: You see quite a bit with strong sexual themes throughout (is rated R)

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Blood on Satan's Claw officially licensed poster Artist copies.18X24" APPROX Limited Edition of 100 on Ivory Cream 4 colour Hand Pulled Sreen Print Featuring an Arcade Fire ink.Based on the 1970's classic folk horror movie.

©1970 TIGON BRITISH FILM PRODUCTIONS, LTD. AND CHILITON FILM AND TELEVISION ENTERPRISES. LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

[vintage1981]

Amicus Productions is Back! Exclusive to Kickstarter!

Amicus Productions is Back! Exclusive to Kickstarter! CAMPAIGN - http://kck.st/48nSSos

When Amicus Productions ceased making films in the 70s, it signified the end of a distinguished creative journey led by Milton Subotsky. His legacy bestowed upon us timeless classics like Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Tales from the Crypt, Asylum, and The House That Dripped Blood.

Amicus Productions symbolized a golden era in British filmmaking but its closure signaled a poignant turning point. As Amicus dissolved, other esteemed establishments, such as Hammer and Tigon, soon followed suit. But what if we had the power to turn back time? What if we could resurrect the spirit of Amicus?

Our goal is to restore Amicus Productions as an independent British Horror Studio that values its history and fans. Our initial objective is to produce a new film that encapsulates the essence and style that made Amicus Productions legendary.

By championing atmospheric storytelling, practical effects, and a profound respect for horror writing, we plan to transport you back to the golden age of British horror. Restoring Amicus is not merely about reviving a film studio, but it's about rekindling a passion, honoring a rich heritage, and reminding the world of the power of independent filmmaking.

In order to achieve this, we need your support to make In the Grip of Terror, the first Amicus Productions horror film in 46 years. By backing our campaign, you'll receive more than just a movie; you'll also help us to rewrite the history of horror by resurrecting a much-beloved Horror Studio.

Together, we have the power to bring Amicus back to life.

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THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HORROR (1969) Reviews and free to watch online

‘Behind its forbidden doors an evil secret hides’ The Haunted House of Horror aka Horror House is a 1969 British-American proto-slasher horror feature film written and directed by Michael Armstrong (House of the Long Shadows (script); The Black Panther; Mark of the Devil). The Tigon-AIP production stars Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Dennis Price, George Sewell and Mark Wynter. American…

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witchfinder general. (1968). [Film]. united states: tigon british film production.

i watched the film 'witchfinder general' to really understand what happened. its about someone trying to end the witch-hunter who terrorizes families.

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THE GHOUL (1975) – Episode 182 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“Well, it can’t be Human, can it? It feeds on Human flesh!” Apparently, they hadn’t heard of cannibals? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out The Ghoul(1975), a film with many ties to Hammer, yet, not a Hammer film.

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 182 – The Ghoul (1975)

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A former Priest named Dr. Lawrence harbors a dark and horrible secret in his attic. The locked room serves as a prison cell for his crazed, cannibalistic adult son, who acquired his savage tastes in India during his father’s missionary work there. Lawrence fears that his son will escape to prey upon the effete guests at his rural English estate during a cross-country auto race.

  Director: Freddie Francis

Writer: Anthony Hinds (as John Elder) 

Producer: Kevin Francis

Selected cast:

Peter Cushing as Doctor Lawrence

John Hurt as Tom Rawlings

Alexandra Bastedo as Angela

Veronica Carlson as Daphne Wells Hunter

Gwen Watford as Ayah

Don Henderson as The Ghoul

Ian McCulloch as Geoffrey

Stewart Bevan as Billy

John D. Collins as “Young Man”

Dan Meaden as Police Sergeant

You all remember Tyburn Films Productions Ltd., right? Wait, maybe not… With only just over a handful of films, this British company quietly began in 1973 with Tales that Witness Madness (uncredited), and, in 1975, they churned out a pair of gothic horror films that look very much like Hammer, Amicus, or even Tigon. Directed by the legendary Freddie Francis and featuring Peter Cushing, John Hurt, and Veronica Carlson, The Ghoul (1975) is one of these two creature features. The other is Legend of the Werewolf (1975). Join the Grue-Crew as they determine how well this film stands up to its contemporaries. 

At the time of this writing, The Ghoul is available to stream from Tubi.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule, chosen by Chad, will be Pigs! (1973, aka Daddy’s Deadly Darling), the film with a thousand titles. Well, almost.

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com. 

Check out this episode!

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“Witchfinder General” (1968), directed by Michael Reeves for Tigon British Film Productions, featuring Vincent Price (as Matthew Hopkins), Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Heath, Rupert Davies, Robert Russell...

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Bad movie I have The Haunted house of Horror aka Horror House 1969 and The Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman 1971

[getoutofmyhouse]

The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1970, d. Piers Haggard)

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Ханни Колдер - вестерн, криминал  Великобритания 1971 HD Рэкел Уэлч, Роберт Калп

Братья Клеменс, известные преступники, ворвались на ранчо, где жили Ханни Колдер и ее муж. Муж был убит, дом сожжен, а Ханни зверски из��асилована. Ханни поклялась отомстить и обратилась к стрелку-одиночке, чтобы тот научил ее обращаться с оружием

#вестерн #криминал #драма #боевик

Выпущено: Великобритания, Curtwel Productions, Paramount Pictures, Tigon British Film Productions Режиссер: Берт Кеннеди В ролях: Рэкел Уэлч, Роберт Калп, Эрнест Боргнайн, Кристофер Ли, Джек Илэм, Стразер Мартин, Дайана Дорс, Луис Барбу, Стивен Бойд

Перевод профессиональный многоголосый, Спб, 5 канал

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La Bestia de la Celda

La Bestia de la Celda

La Bestia en la Celda La Bestia en la Celda – es una película de terror británica de 1970 escrita y dirigida por James Kelley. La película fue producida por Leander Films y Tigon British Film Productions , y protagonizada por Beryl Reid. SIPNOSIS Los soldados apostados en una base militar rural están siendo mutilados hasta la muerte en el bosque circundante. Las autoridades sospechan de…

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Tigon British Film Productions The 70's

Tigon British Film Productions The 70’s

After the success of Witchfinder General, Tigon and AIP had wasted no time in getting their next project together, a loose adaptation of H P Lovecraft’s The Dreams in the Witch House, which would ultimately hit the screens as Curse of the Crimson Altar. AIP already had a script by science fiction writer Jerry Sohl which they had announced at various points over the years, but the decision to…

[vintage1981]

Little Shoppe of Horrors presents Little Shoppe of Horrors #45: The Making of the Revenge of Frankenstein

In 1957, after the massive world-wide success of Hammer Film's The Curse of Frankenstein, all the major film companies wanted to get their hands on the follow up. In this case - The Revenge of Frankenstein. Columbia Pictures won the bidding battle and were given what may be the best of all the Hammer Frankenstein series. Wonderfully acted by Peter Cushing. Brilliantly directed by Terence Fisher. From a witty, biting script by Jimmy Sangster. It was Hammer at its height with the beginning of their golden era.

Featuring!

'I Will Have My Revenge. They Will Never Be Rid of Me!' – The Making of THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN by Bruce G. Hallenbeck.

'This Creature Walks On the Earth.' – In depth study of the production of one of the best 1970's horror films - THE CREEPING FLESH - by John Hamilton.

Interview With Annette Whiteley – Conducted by Dr. Adrian Smith.

The Hammer Diaries of Christopher Wicking - Part 3 (1975) – Edited by Mitchel Wicking.

Plus - A History of Horror Film Fanzines - Magick Theatre and...

All our regular features - Letters to LSoH - Ralph's One-and-Only Traveling Reviews Company - Hammer News.

Covers

Front Cover by William Stout

Back Cover by Dan Gallagher Jr.

Inside Front Covers by BRUX (David Brooks)

Inside Back Cover by Ron Lizorty

 The Best Classic British Horror Film Coverage Since 1972

Order here

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The Haunted House of Horror - UK | USA, 1969

The Haunted House of Horror – UK | USA, 1969

‘Behind its forbidden doors an evil secret hides’

The Haunted House of Horror aka Horror House is a 1969 British-American proto-slasher horror feature film written and directed by Michael Armstrong (House of the Long Shadows (script); The Black Panther; Mark of the Devil). The Tigon-AIP production stars Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Dennis Price, George Sewell and Mark Wynter.

American…

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Doomwatch

After discussing the Scarred for Life books, I thought I’d cover a few bits and pieces mentioned in there, starting with the feature film spin-off of quite a popular show back in the day.  Doomwatch was created by Dr. Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis, a team that had worked with the BBC before on Doctor Who, most notably creating the Cybermen.  The original concept was sort of based on concerns about the rise of new methods of medicine, including organ replacement systems etc., and if you look at the original Cyberman designs, that’s very obvious.  So the show Doomwatch was born out of similar thinking, although in a more grounded way, and definitely for a more adult audience.  It was a show that worked with a “five minutes into the future” SF approach, although it had a very British take on the material (translation: a lot of the time it was really depressing and miserable!).

The basic idea of the series is that in response to the rise in new scientific advances, an official “Department for the Observation and Measurement of Scientific Work” (nicknamed Doomwatch) is set up.  It is actually a tiny group, really underfunded, basically existing so that the Government can look like it’s doing something about the issue without really doing something about it.  However, the leader of the team Dr. Spencer Quist, played by John Paul, was a driven idealist, as he had earlier been seconded to the Manhattan Project, which resulted in his wife dying of radiation poisoning, and so he leads the fight against red tape to make Doomwatch do some real good in investigating all kinds of issues.  These ranged from things fairly realistic matters, like effects of jetlag, noise pollution from planes, and the effects of violent content in the media (an episode that actually got banned!), to more out there stuff like microbes deliberately bred to eat plastics getting loose, and intelligent rats on the rise.  That last one was fairly memorable, as though it had truly chilling moments, like when characters find that the traps they set were deliberately disarmed with tools, the scenes of the characters wrestling with plastic rats on their trousers just looks ridiculous (although there are some truly shocking make-up effects for the rat’s victims, the most shocking being the very end of the episode).  Yeah, this didn’t even have the same effects budget as Doctor Who did, but the show was quite well written, even if it did go into ME AM PLAY GODS territory a lot, the ideas were good, it pulled no punches at all when it came to darker material, and it had a fair three season run.  It had a season finale that was a real watercooler moment of the day, as one regular character has to defuse a nuclear weapon, and succeeds, but realises too late that the conventional explosive component is still armed...  Sadly, that episode is lost now, another victim of the great BBC archive purges, but the season two opening follows straight on, and recaps the moment.  You can get a box set of all the surviving episodes (which ironically includes that banned one) now, and it is worth a goosey if you get the chance.  Well OK, maybe not the episode The Battery People, where the writers seem to have confused being impotent with being gay, where the clue that gets Doomwatch involved is when a group of men start drinking pink gin.  Yes, really.  Why couldn’t they have lost that one when they had the chance...?

So what about this film then?  It was produced by Tigon, a smaller film distributor/producer, made a few notable horror titles like Blood on Satan’s Claw and Witchfinder General, and this was one of their last actual productions before they purely shifted to distributing... more adult fare.  Now I have to stress something; that trailer is lying, this isn’t really a horror story.  It keeps pretending to be, with lots of shots of suspicious locals and the like, some tension building moments, but really it’s more a mystery of what’s happening, which later goes into more dramatic territory as the human cost of what’s happening is revealed.  Slight spoiler here, but the actual threat here is that the islanders have started developing en masse the condition acromegaly, a pituitary gland disorder that induces uneven growth throughout the body, most notably in the facial features.  What’s causing it, and how to treat the problem, is where the film goes in it’s central section.  Incidentally, it’s only in that middle bit that the main TV cast actually gets involved; Ian Bannen’s character is created for the film, he’s the man in the field whilst Dr. Quist and everyone stay in London to talk to ministers, members of the Navy and such.  This does mean that the film feels very oddly paced, like you have a higher budget episode of the show being sandwiched between a folk horror-ish opening and closing section.  Also, it means that the regular cast get swizzed out of getting a higher billing. Not cool Tigon.

All this isn’t to say that the film is bad, it’s just that if you go in expecting a full blown 70s style horror romp, you may be a bit disappointed.  If you go in expecting an intriguing Doomwatch story, with issues of environmental pollution and the like, you might enjoy it, but be a bit annoyed by them forcing in stuff that’s there purely to look scary in the trailers.  Also, I for one found the idea of the trailers marketing this as an island of “monsters” when they are simply people suffering from a medical disorder more than a tad tasteless.  It’s recently got a Blu Ray re-release, so it’s worth a look.  One last slightly ghoulish thing about this though; the cast includes George Sanders in a small roll (but big billing) as an Admiral involved in the mystery.  This was actually the last film of his released before his suicide in 1972, with his very last film Psychomania released about a year later.  Sanders was quite a fascinating figure, although I don’t entirely mean that in a complementary way, he had quite the complicated personal life.

To end on a cheerier note, two extra things; Channel 5 tried a revamp of Doomwatch in 1999, with a TV movie pilot called Winter Angel.  I think I saw part of it, but I don’t remember the whole thing; it was quite warmly received though (surprising since Channel 5), I think I will track down a DVD to have another look.  Last thing, here’s the later VHS trailer for the film.