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In Tug of War Jill’s trip to Liverpool has been cancelled and when David doesn’t come home until 3 O’Clock in the morning she very quickly realises that he has been at Julie’s. The marriage is headed for a distinctly rocky stage, compounded by the fact that the board are extremely anxious to get their […]

The Brothers: Tug Of War (BBC-1 24 Feb 1974 with Malcolm Stoddard)...

One of the great things about the horror genre is just how varied it can be. There’s room for all kinds of movies under the massive umbrella of horror: comedies, drama, FX-heavy gore fests, psychological thrillers that suggest but never show and so on and so on. Because there’s no one “right” way to make a horror film, fans get to have completely different experiences with each new effort — this despite the genre’s reputation for sameness and predilection for sequels.

There’s starting to be a trend with these Scream Factory double feature Blu-rays in which one of the two movies included is crazy over-the-top fun and the second is a slog. The last few months have seen double feature releases of Empire of the Ants (fun!) and Jaws of Satan (dull!), Food of the Gods (fun!) and Frogs (dull!) and, even more recently, Cellar Dweller (fun!