Monthly Archives: December 2018

RESISTING THE LURE OF THE LURID: COLOUR IN THE BLACK TORMENT (1964)
by Dr Paul Mazey The Gothic shocker The Black Torment (1964) represented a departure for the exploitation producers Michael Klinger and Tony Tenser and their company Compton Films. They had worked with director Robert Hartford-Davis on his debut feature The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963), a salacious (for the time) film about promiscuity in a girls’ […]