FILM REVIEW:
Black Sea
By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
In the late 50s, Hollywood studios, terrified of the burgeoning
threat of TV, began to focus their
attention on mega budget, epic
spectacles. This left a gap in the
market that was filled to a large
degree by independent British
productions like the horror films
of Hammer. Forward to 2014
and we’re seeing a similar situation, with Hollywood once again
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attempting to compete with
TV by producing movies with
insanely large budgets, while
showing a reticence to fund lower budgeted genre movies. With
Hammer reborn, it seems it may
be time once again for the British film industry to step up and
give us the sort of movies Hollywood is no longer interested in
offering.
January 2015
pg 84