John Gilling Archives

The Mummy’s Shroud

Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.

NR

5.6

1967 Horror 90 min Play

6.3

The Reptile

Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.

NR

6.3

1966 Horror 90 min Play

6.4

The Plague of the Zombies

Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. Local squire Charles, a disciple of Haitian witchcraft, is using the voodoo magic to resurrect the dead to work in his decrepit and unsafe tin mines that are shunned by the local population. But his magic relies on human sacrifice and he unleashes his army of the undead on the unsuspecting village with horrific consequences.

NR

6.4

1966 Horror 91 min Play

6.3

The Brigand of Kandahar

1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen offensive against the colonial enemy. They capture a foreign journalist and Case recounts his story of false accusation on trumped-up charges, instigated by the bigotry and racism of his commanding officers. Following a successful attack by the British against the rebels Case is brutally shot by Colonel Drewe, his accuser. The journalist returns home ...

NR

6.3

1965 Adventure 84 min Play

5.6

Blood Beast From Outer Space

The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.

NR

5.6

1965 Horror 85 min Play

5.4

The Scarlet Blade

A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.

NR

5.4

1963 Adventure 84 min Play

6.3

The Pirates of Blood River

A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

NR

6.3

1962 Action 87 min Play

7.2

The Shadow of the Cat

Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.

NR

7.2

1961 Horror 79 min Play

6.7

The Flesh and the Fiends

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...

NR

6.7

1960 Horror 94 min Play

5.6

The Challenge

Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

NR

5.6

1960 Drama 101 min Play

6.1

The Man Inside

A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.

NR

6.1

1958 Adventure 90 min Play

6.3

High Flight

The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.

NR

6.3

1957 Drama 89 min Play

6.6

Interpol

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.

NR

6.6

1957 Crime 92 min Play

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Odongo

Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hardboiled hunter who catches and keeps wild animals in an African sanctuary in order to sell them to zoos and circuses. When he hires a new veterinarian named "P.J. Muir," he does not imagine that the "P" stands for Pamela, played by the gorgeous Rhonda Fleming!

NR

0

1956 Adventure 85 min Play

5.8

The Gamma People

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

NR

5.8

1956 Comedy 79 min Play

6

Escape by Night

An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

NR

6

1953 Crime 79 min Play

6.5

Three Steps to the Gallows

A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.

NR

6.5

1953 Crime 81 min Play

5.9

The Voice of Merrill

A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead

NR

5.9

1952 Mystery 83 min Play

6

The Quiet Woman

The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.

NR

6

1951 Crime 71 min Play

6.5

No Trace

A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.

NR

6.5

1950 Crime 76 min Play