#dir val guest

[bodyhorrorbeatdown]

Body Horror Beatdown, Match 8, Round 1

Vote for your favorite:

Propaganda under the cut.

The Fly:

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

"Main character turns into a man-fly hybrid slowly over the course of the movie. What happens to him is truly horrific and only adds to my disgust of insects as a whole. Some might even say the ability to make Jeff Goldblum disgusting is a body horror feat in and of itself."

"*potential spoilers?* I LOVE IT WHEN SCIENTISTS FALL BC OF THEIR OWN HUBRIS !!! IT'S SO GOOD also the body horror was rlly well done as far as I remember! It has been a bit since I've watched it tho" "The body horror in this movie was beautifully disgusting, you don't want to get me STARTED on the ending when his jaw is ripped off and everything that was still vaguely human about him ripped away, like his eyes turned to mush and dripped out as his forehead split open and chunks of flesh just fell on the floor, the makeup and special effects were absolutely jawdropping."

The Quatermass Xperiment: X is not an unknown quantity.

(wikipedia) "The film concerns three astronauts who have been launched into space aboard a single-stage-to-orbit rocket designed by Professor Quatermass. It crashlands with only one of its original crew, Victor Carroon (Richard Wordsworth), still aboard. He begins mutating into an alien organism, which, if it spawns, will engulf the Earth and destroy humanity. After Carroon escapes from custody Quatermass and Inspector Lomax (Jack Warner) of Scotland Yard have just hours to track him/it down and prevent a catastrophe."

[checkinonthislater]

QUATERMASS II (1957) dir. Val Guest

[johnny-dynamo]

"KILLER FORCE" (1976) Dir.: Val Guest

[ddzzaaii]

the day the earth caught fire dir. val guest

[cinemaoflightanddark]

The Abominable Snowman dir Val Guest 1957

[facesofcinema]

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

[gurumog]

Quatermass 2 (1957) aka Enemy From Space Hammer Film Productions Dir. Val Guest

Brian Donlevy as Professor Bernard Quatermass

[classicfilmblr]

So man has sown the wind. Perhaps, in the next few hours, there will be no remembrance of the past and no hope for the future that might have been. All the works of man will be consumed in the great fire out of which he was created. But perhaps at the heart of the burning light into which he has thrust his world, there is a heart that cares more for him than he has ever cared for himself. THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961)         — dir. Val Guest

[deforest]

JANET MUNRO & EDWARD JUDD in THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE (1961)         — dir. Val Guest

[biohazard-pizza]

Casino Royale (1967) dir. Val Guest

[horror-aesthete]

The Abominable Snowman, 1957, dir. Val Guest

[justlookitthat]

Casino Royale (1967) dir. John Huston, Kenneth Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath

[rapturousrot]

Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960) dir. Val Guest

[jingle-bones]

THE MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST (Dir: Val Guest, 1954).

An early production from Hammer Films, The Men of Sherwood Forest is a low budget but spirited romp with Don Taylor as the legendary Robin Hood.

The simple plot involves Robin attempting to thwart an ambush attack on Richard the Lionheart on his return from the Crusades.

More famous for their Horror movies, Hammer also did a nice line in swashbucklers; the studio produced four Robin Hood movies, of which this was the first.

Although clearly working with a meagre budget, director Val Guest makes decent use of outdoor locales and the movie feels less studio bound than might be expected. It also benefits from being shot in colour and whilst the action is not as well staged as in a more lavish production, Guest generally elicits decent performances from his actors, not all of whom are perfectly cast.

Don Taylor makes for a slightly bland leading man. There is nothing essentially wrong with his performance and with an athletic build he certainly looks the part of Robin. However with an accent that is more Hollywood than Sherwood, Taylor lacks both the authenticity and charisma of earlier Robin Hoods such as Errol Flynn or Richard Todd. Likewise, Leonard Sachs is not ideally cast as The Sheriff of Nottingham, lacking both the authoritative air and any real sense of menace to make a truly memorable villain.

The best performances are to be found in the supporting cast. Maid Marian is inexplicably missing from The Men of Sherwood Forest; her replacement here is Lady Alys in a nice performance by Eileen Moore. A loyal ally to Robin, she holds her own with the best of the Merrie Men, but there is no romance between the two. Robin’s most significant relationship here is with Friar Tuck. As the wily man of the cloth cum con artist Reginald Beckwith gives a marvellous comic performance which is arguably the movie's highlight.

While The Men of Sherwood Forest is no masterpiece, as an example of the sort of boys own adventure that once filled matinees, it is invaluable. Cheap and cheerful maybe, but also engagingly innocent, old fashioned fun.

To read a longer, more in-depth review of THE MEN OF SHERWOOD FOREST visit my blog JINGLE BONES MOVIE TIME! Link below.

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

The Decoding Room at Frau Hoffner's Spy Academy in: Casino Royale (Dir. Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, 1967). Source

[moremoviesplease]

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

Dir. Val Guest

☆Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Maureen Connell☆