[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Night of the Eagle (1962)

Professor Norman Taylor seemingly has it all. A great job, envious colleagues and a happy home life. However Taylor discovers his wife Tansy is a witch who has been practicing witchcraft since their marriage, her spells seemingly helping Norman achieve his goals in life. When Norman insists on destroying Tansy's magical items events start to go very wrong indeed. Could there be more than just Tansy's witchcraft stirring up trouble.

Not your typical sixties witchcraft movie as it lacks the normal genre tropes of black masses and virgin sacrifice. Instead what plays out is a slow-burn insight into witchcraft in the English countryside. The kind of witchcraft used to manipulate individuals rather than using it to invoke the Devil.

Nicely acted by Peter Wyngard and Janet Blair and exquisitely shot by Sydney Hayers. This is more akin to Tourneur's classic duo Night of the Demon (1957) and I Walked With a Zombie (1943) than it has with the ever more lurid horrors manifesting from Hammer at the time.

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Wolf Man Larry Talbot ends up being resurrected when his tomb is disturbed and determined to put an end to his Lycanthropic curse goes in search of Baron Frankenstein for help. However all he finds is Frankenstein's daughter and worse his monster.

The first of the Universal monster mash films which is kinda disappointing as the two titans only battle for a few seconds at the end of the film. Lon Chaney Jr is once again good as Talbot but Bela Lugosi is no Karloff when it comes to portraying the monster. Lugosi isn't helped by the fact the monster when revived is blind - something which wasn't mentioned at all during the film. It's great that Maria Ouspenskaya returns as Maleva the gypsy woman from the original Wolf Man film