Kitchen Sink Horror
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British horror, homegrown giallo and psycho-drama. Plenty of beige. #britishhorror
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British exploitation, video nasties, and proto-giallo sleaze from the beige end of the 1970s. Think Susan George in Fright, Linda Hayden with a shotgun, washing-up liquid on the windowsill.
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Death Laid an Egg, 1968
September 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Death Laid an Egg, 1968
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One on Top of the Other, 1969
September 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
One on Top of the Other, 1969
Serious atmospherics in The City of the Dead (1960). (Nothing kitchen sink about this one, mind you.)
August 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Serious atmospherics in The City of the Dead (1960). (Nothing kitchen sink about this one, mind you.)
Hysteria (1965) is not one of Hammer's all-time great psycho-thrillers, but it still has its fair share of standout moments. This shot, for example.
August 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Hysteria (1965) is not one of Hammer's all-time great psycho-thrillers, but it still has its fair share of standout moments. This shot, for example.
A Thatcheresque Joan Fontaine is welcomed to the sinister village of Heddaby in Hammer’s The Witches (1966). Doing the honours is Michelle Dotrice, who also clocked up And Soon the Darkness and Blood on Satan’s Claw on her horror CV.
August 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A Thatcheresque Joan Fontaine is welcomed to the sinister village of Heddaby in Hammer’s The Witches (1966). Doing the honours is Michelle Dotrice, who also clocked up And Soon the Darkness and Blood on Satan’s Claw on her horror CV.
Virginia Wetherell declines a brandy in Tigon's Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968). 'Good girl,' says Boris Karloff, 'it's completely wasted on women.'
August 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Virginia Wetherell declines a brandy in Tigon's Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968). 'Good girl,' says Boris Karloff, 'it's completely wasted on women.'
A classic example of the psycho-biddy sub-genre and the film that its writer, Jimmy Sangster, said was his favourite. It can only be The Nanny (1956). And yes that is indeed Wendy Craig with Bette Davis.
August 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A classic example of the psycho-biddy sub-genre and the film that its writer, Jimmy Sangster, said was his favourite. It can only be The Nanny (1956). And yes that is indeed Wendy Craig with Bette Davis.
Fanatic (1965) needs more plaudits. It’s got a top cast (Stefanie Powers, Tallulah Bankhead, Yootha Joyce, Peter Vaughan), a play based on a single line of its dialogue (Looped), a gothic mansion, and moments that weirdly seem to prefigure both Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left.
July 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Fanatic (1965) needs more plaudits. It’s got a top cast (Stefanie Powers, Tallulah Bankhead, Yootha Joyce, Peter Vaughan), a play based on a single line of its dialogue (Looped), a gothic mansion, and moments that weirdly seem to prefigure both Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left.
Letters on a tray, a pinta, and actual kitchen sink vibes for Andrea Allan in the sublimely grotty The House That Vanished (1973).
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June 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Letters on a tray, a pinta, and actual kitchen sink vibes for Andrea Allan in the sublimely grotty The House That Vanished (1973).
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Astounding rural waterskiing-on-the-road apparatus – as driven by Oliver Reed – in The Shuttered Room (1967).
June 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Astounding rural waterskiing-on-the-road apparatus – as driven by Oliver Reed – in The Shuttered Room (1967).
Robert Hardy isn't terribly sure about Joan's new hairdo in the haunted beige environs of Dark Places (1974).
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May 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Robert Hardy isn't terribly sure about Joan's new hairdo in the haunted beige environs of Dark Places (1974).
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Taking tea with the kids of Our Mother's House (1967), a mix of 'Dickensian terror and welfare-state England', according to Alexander Walker.
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May 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Taking tea with the kids of Our Mother's House (1967), a mix of 'Dickensian terror and welfare-state England', according to Alexander Walker.
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‘The party was boring, so we decided to sit on the floor of this old house that has no electricity.’ So begins a night of terror in Haunted House of Horror (1969)
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May 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
‘The party was boring, so we decided to sit on the floor of this old house that has no electricity.’ So begins a night of terror in Haunted House of Horror (1969)
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Whirlpool (1970), and just prior to cinema's longest game of strip poker – when they finally divest themselves of all that brown – are Vivien Neves and Karl Lanchbury.
May 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Whirlpool (1970), and just prior to cinema's longest game of strip poker – when they finally divest themselves of all that brown – are Vivien Neves and Karl Lanchbury.
A perfectly framed yawn in David Greene's I Start Counting (1969).
May 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A perfectly framed yawn in David Greene's I Start Counting (1969).
Val Guest sets a very high bar with the opening frames of Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960)
May 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Val Guest sets a very high bar with the opening frames of Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960)
Literally sent into a trance by the effects of rock ’n’ roll music, the thugs of Violent Playground (1958) (including David McCallum) advance menacingly on Stanley Baker. ‘I’m not going to run,’ says Stanley, resolute in the face of danger. ‘And I’m not going to dance.’
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May 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Literally sent into a trance by the effects of rock ’n’ roll music, the thugs of Violent Playground (1958) (including David McCallum) advance menacingly on Stanley Baker. ‘I’m not going to run,’ says Stanley, resolute in the face of danger. ‘And I’m not going to dance.’
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Susan George and Vanessa Redgrave in Pinteresque psycho-drama Out of Season (1975). Note the tomato ketchup dispenser. Just out of shot, a bottle of washing-up liquid on the windowsill.
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May 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Susan George and Vanessa Redgrave in Pinteresque psycho-drama Out of Season (1975). Note the tomato ketchup dispenser. Just out of shot, a bottle of washing-up liquid on the windowsill.
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Though Corruption (1968) is set in the present day, Peter Cushing heroically makes it look like the 19th Century. Kate O'Mara lets the side down.
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May 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Though Corruption (1968) is set in the present day, Peter Cushing heroically makes it look like the 19th Century. Kate O'Mara lets the side down.
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Nothing But The Night (1973), and the girl leading a school trip singsong is Gwyneth Strong, who grew up to be Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses.
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May 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Nothing But The Night (1973), and the girl leading a school trip singsong is Gwyneth Strong, who grew up to be Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses.
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Just a brief glimpse, but the washing-up liquid is definitely on the windowsill in Lindsay Shonteff's British Giallo Night After Night After Night (1969).
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May 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Just a brief glimpse, but the washing-up liquid is definitely on the windowsill in Lindsay Shonteff's British Giallo Night After Night After Night (1969).
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Effective window-staring from Sheila Hancock and Albert Finney in Night Must Fall (1964)
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May 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Effective window-staring from Sheila Hancock and Albert Finney in Night Must Fall (1964)
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‘Who are you? What do you want?’ ‘Take it easy, lady, just relax and nobody will get hurt.’ ‘Get that filthy thing off my table!’ Sylvia Syms gets her priorities right in Give Us Tomorrow (1978).
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May 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
‘Who are you? What do you want?’ ‘Take it easy, lady, just relax and nobody will get hurt.’ ‘Get that filthy thing off my table!’ Sylvia Syms gets her priorities right in Give Us Tomorrow (1978).
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A location staple of British horror: the antiques shop. Here it’s where Michael Gough (himself a genre staple) browses for trinkets in Horrors of the Black Museum (1959).
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April 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A location staple of British horror: the antiques shop. Here it’s where Michael Gough (himself a genre staple) browses for trinkets in Horrors of the Black Museum (1959).
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Expository headline given the angry crumple by Jack Watson in Pete Walker's Schizo, 1974.
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April 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Expository headline given the angry crumple by Jack Watson in Pete Walker's Schizo, 1974.
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