1960s Film

Movie musings about the stars and films of the 1960s. Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities – forget about your worries and your strife.

In Review: Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966) on Blu-ray

by Matthew Barber 22 May 2013

Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. , made in 1966, is also released on Blu-ray for the first time. Unlike its predecessor, this sequel takes place on Earth.

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In Review: Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) on Blu-ray

by Matthew Barber 22 May 2013

D r. Who and the Daleks , the first of two movies based on the BBC television series, is released this month for the first time on Blu-ray.

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Issue 9: Now Available For Order

by Helen Cox 6 March 2013

What would happen if King Kong went on a dating show? Now you know thanks to our talented cover artist Dan Havardi.

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I Finally Watched: Cleopatra (1963)

by Mark Searby 28 February 2013

Cleopatra (1963) clocks in at a whopping 248 minutes. A running time that crawls to just over four hours doesn’t sound enjoyable these days, regardless of the film’s subject matter. Of course, an epic length is not the sole reason I have never seen this Hollywood epic.

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Issue 7: Our Horror Special – order yours today!

by Helen Cox 23 October 2012

What do Linnea Quigley, Bette Davis and killer telephones have in common? All three appear in our spooky horror special which is out at the very end of October. Other treats for readers include an exclusive interview with Richard Bates Jnr on his new psychological horror: Excision, an exposé on the role of distributors in [...]

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Issue 6.1 Is Here!

by Helen Cox 22 October 2012

The second digital edition of the year is here! Our front cover is illustrated by Rory Mitchell and inspired by the unforgettable body horror: Videodrome. New Empress Magazine’s Minema titles are a mini-digi-dose of film commentary, interviews and flashbacks. Inside this issue our writers have examined the way brands, TV, music and other elements of [...]

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In Review: The Plague of the Zombies

by Helen Cox 11 June 2012

Shot back to back with The Reptile and released alongside Dracula: Prince of Darkness as a double feature, Hammer’s The Plague of the Zombies (1966) delivers a gripping mystery and some genuinely creepy moments. Sir James Forbes (André Morell, who also appeared in The Bridge on the River Kwai, Ben Hur and Quatermass and the [...]

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50th Anniversary: Twice Round the Daffodils

by Maryann O'Connor 24 April 2012

This sanatorium-set British comedy is known to some as an unofficial Carry On film, which is not an outlandish label considering a number of the cast, director Gerald Thomas, producer Peter Rogers and writer Norman Hudis were also responsible for the innuendo-laden joyous pieces of film which populate the extensive Carry On collection.

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Special Report: Dracula Prince of Darkness (1966)

by Mike Richardson 29 February 2012

After a trip to the blood donors, the kindly nurses and doctors generally suggest taking it easy and drinking plenty of liquids, yet last Friday my post-donation time was spent in a disused crypt in the bowels of London Waterloo instead; in the company of Hammer Horror

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The Road Less Travelled: Possessed Vehicle Movies

by Graham Gough 16 February 2012

The possessed vehicle sub-genre is a strange beast, a disgruntled and mostly aggressive child of the road movie and horror fest. These films are less about characters trying to escape their mundane or horrible lives and more about characters seeking escape from driverless, demon-fuelled automobiles which will stop at nothing to consume them.

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Flashback: Louis Malle and Zazie dans le Metro

by Anthony Davis 10 February 2012

By Anthony Davis Louis Malle’s Zazie was released in 1960, a somewhat sunnier contemporary to Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom : a film so badly received at the time that it virtually destroyed his career. Both film-makers were saying something new and true, but Malle, although controversial and with a similar delight in addressing taboos, did not [...]

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