'At the Earth's Core' (1976)
This movie has been sat in my 'TBW Pile' ('To Be Watched' of course...), waiting for a night when I was really after something dumb but fun, something undemanding, something with Peter Cushing in it that wasn't 'Star Wars' or 'Doctor Who'. And last night was that night; work and moving furniture around left me in need of all of the above. You've probably guessed by now that this isn't a first viewing for me, not by a long shot. When I was much younger, I went through at least a couple of summer holidays where this movie featured heavily on the old VCR and I enjoyed every outlandish minute of it (remember what I said about 'Hawk the Slayer' yesterday...?) I never read the book though, I've never been able to get into Burroughs' work but that's another story... 'At the Earth's Core', the movie, though? I can always get into that, mostly because it's utterly ridiculous... When eccentric Victorian scientist ...