Ted Vaaak gets to grips with Gantry, Maldon mobile library’s most borrowed book of 1991. A horror unlike many others, Gantry has, since its release in 1990 through to here and now with this fantastic new edition from Ubbstress Books (£7.99), lingered at the edges of my mind far more often than it should, often [...]
Production year: 1988 Country: UK Language: English Cert (UK): 18 Runtime: 92 mins Director: Ted Vaaak Cast: Brian Glover, Julian Glover, Crispin Glover, Danny Glover Although Ted Vaaaak’s FLEAS! is largely unremembered now, this was at the time considered evidence – alongside Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and Shuan Hutson’s Slugs – of a renaissance in British [...]
Production year: 1986 Country: UK Language: English Cert (UK): PG Runtime: 119 mins Director: Ted Vaaaaaak Cast: Elvin ‘Elvin’ Elvin, Helen Mirren This years marks the 25th anniversary of a little remembered landmark in British SF, the commercial release of Ted Vaaak’s directorial opus The Perilous Planet based on a script derived from his own [...]
Production year: 2011 Country: UK Language: English Cert (UK): 12A Runtime: 88 mins Director: Euros Lyn Cast: Mark Gatiss, Benedict Cumberbatch Mark Gatiss, fresh from the success of his adaptation of HG Wells’ The First Men In The Moon, has been given a lavish (by BBC 4 standards) budget to create this pilot for a [...]
Production year: 1994 Country: UK Language: English Cert (UK): 18 Runtime: 74 mins Director: Krebva Trells Cast: Michael Praed, Chelsea Charms, Angela Lansbury This little seen British horror film has a controversial reputation that far exceeds its actual influence. The story, a loose recreation of A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, involves Professor [...]
The School In The Night Production year: 2001 Country: UK/Spain Language: Spanish Cert (UK): N/A Runtime: 87 mins Director: Jaume Balagueró Script: Ted Vaaaak Cast: Jessica Del Pozo, Federico Luppi After the success of Los Sin Nombre, his successful adapation of English horror novelist Ramsey Campbell’s story The Nameless, Jaume Balagueró planned on following this [...]
The President’s Wife Production year: 1993 Country: UK/Canada/Italy Language: English Cert (UK): 15 Runtime: 93 mins Director: Ted Vaaak Cast: Leonard Nimoy, Shannon Tweed This amiable and largely forgotten comedy of confusion, now available on DVD for the first time, was to be Leonard Nimoy’s last film role for 16 years. He stars here as an aging [...]
Label: Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1991 Genre: Horror Rock Style: Rock, Punk The first and only album by Essex-based horror rockers Kount Kremlin gets a much anticipated rerelease this November after being nearly two decades out of production. If you’ve never heard of them (for shame) this is like a minimalist 45 Grave [...]
Synopsis: When the Californian Wieczorek family move north to the sleepy town of Essex, Vermont, the chilly weather proves to be the least of their problems as they struggle for acceptance amidst the impoverished townsfolk. [...]
Shadows — Nosferatu Label: 4AD Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 2008 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Industrial, Goth Rock Label: 4AD Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 2008 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Industrial, Goth Rock The first blood-offering since the band signed to 4AD last year, Shadows is finally out in the UK this month after [...]
