Cereal At Midnight

The concept of a secret league of assassins that controls society from the shadows is nothing new. It's been mined for stories in everything from DC Comics to the Assassin's Creed  video game series, and rumors of such organizations can be traced back historically for hundreds--if not thousands--of years. But I can't think of any story that has as much cheeky fun with the idea as The Assassination Bureau , a distinctly-British confection hailing from the late 1960's, starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, and Telly Savalas.  Based (at least loosely) upon an unfinished Jack London novel, the premise of the film concerns an international group of gentlemen assassins in the days leading up to World War I. These hoity-toity hitmen will kill anyone if the price is right: after all, everyone deserves to die. But when a spunky journalist (as if there was any other kind!) played by Rigg seeks to destroy the Assassination Bureau (Limited) by commissioning the killing of their leader ...

In the largest Hammer Films Blu-ray set released to date, Mill Creek Entertainment shines a spotlight on Hammer's collaborations with Columbia Pictures and the wide array of horror, thrillers, crime films, war movies, exploitation films, and swashbuckling adventure movies that the partnership created! Join us we discuss all twenty films and the special features of this ULTIMATE COLLECTION! Order your Blu-ray box set of 20 Hammer Films HERE

In our latest installment of the ICONS OF HORROR series, we fix our gaze upon the giant of British horror: HAMMER FILMS! With shocking violence that pushed all boundaries, buckets of ruby red blood, and stars like Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Ingrid Pitt, Michael Ripper, Caroline Munro, and Oliver Reed in their stable of talent, , Hammer films inhabits a class all its own. Join us as we celebrate this famed icon of horror, but let us make haste: nightfall comes soon, and with it, the monsters of the dark! Hammer Time: Hammer Horror Ultimate DVD Box Set Icons of Horror Playlist