Although Hammer Films will always be associated with British horror, the studio did have stiff competition. Amicus specialised in the successful horror anthologies and Us counterparts American International Pictures established a permanent UK base in the mid sixties. Other smaller independents took their own bite from the cherry tree of horror with some success, the best known being Tigon Films.
Tigon has received some belated recognition in recent years. Andy Boot’s book on British horror Fragments of Fear devotes a chapter to the company while John Hamilton’s excellent book Beast in the Cellar covers the varied career of Tigon’s charismatic founder Tony Tenser.
Like Hammer’s Sir James Carreras, Tenser was one of the British Film Industry’s great entrepreneurs. Born in London to poor Lithuanian immigrants and a movie fan since childhood, he was an ambitious man with a natural talent for showmanship. Combining shrewd business...
Tigon has received some belated recognition in recent years. Andy Boot’s book on British horror Fragments of Fear devotes a chapter to the company while John Hamilton’s excellent book Beast in the Cellar covers the varied career of Tigon’s charismatic founder Tony Tenser.
Like Hammer’s Sir James Carreras, Tenser was one of the British Film Industry’s great entrepreneurs. Born in London to poor Lithuanian immigrants and a movie fan since childhood, he was an ambitious man with a natural talent for showmanship. Combining shrewd business...
- 2/18/2014
- Shadowlocked
Blu-ray Release Date: March 19, 2013
Price: Blu-ray $24.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
The eyes have it in Zeta One.
A 1969 British superspy comedy film with a Pop Art aesthetic, Zeta One is the kind of psychedelic, sexy science fiction thriller that inspired the Austin Powers series.
Robin Hawdon stars as James Word, a womanizing secret agent whose investigation of a criminal mastermind (James Robertson Justice) leads him to discover a race of beautiful, exotic superwomen. Further inquiry exposes the naked truth: that the women have been abducted and brainwashed by the alien goddess Zeta (Dawn Addams). Zeta and her fellow babes live in another dimension known as Angvia, and they bring back the Earth girls to unite with their own race of über femmes!
Distributed by Kino Lorber, Zeta One appears on the Jezebel label, the British video imprint that deals in vintage erotic films. one a title
Originally released in the U.
Price: Blu-ray $24.95
Studio: Kino Lorber
The eyes have it in Zeta One.
A 1969 British superspy comedy film with a Pop Art aesthetic, Zeta One is the kind of psychedelic, sexy science fiction thriller that inspired the Austin Powers series.
Robin Hawdon stars as James Word, a womanizing secret agent whose investigation of a criminal mastermind (James Robertson Justice) leads him to discover a race of beautiful, exotic superwomen. Further inquiry exposes the naked truth: that the women have been abducted and brainwashed by the alien goddess Zeta (Dawn Addams). Zeta and her fellow babes live in another dimension known as Angvia, and they bring back the Earth girls to unite with their own race of über femmes!
Distributed by Kino Lorber, Zeta One appears on the Jezebel label, the British video imprint that deals in vintage erotic films. one a title
Originally released in the U.
- 3/7/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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