Thank Christ... The weather's looking cooler for this week. The last 2 weeks have been horrible. sick of feeling sweaty and dirty at work and sick of having to get 3 baths a day to keep cool. hopefully that'll be it for a bit. I was coping well with this summer till last week when it got too much, but bloody hell, how do people enjoy being hot sticky and sweaty all the time?...it baffles me.

30s to 70s:

Hammer, Cushing and Lee (Frankenstein/Dracula/Mummy series, Vampires and other monsters/ some thrillers)

Universal, Lugosi, Chaney and Karloff (Original Frankenstein/Dracula/Wolfman/Mummy, Invisible Man, Creature from Black Lagoon etc)

Vincent Price (Dr Phibes, Theatre of Blood, Diary of a Madman etc)

Roger Cormon films (Mainly Edgar Allen Poe adaptions/ b movies)

Amicus fims (mostly anthology films)

Tigon Films (70s Hammer rival)

Italian Horror (Argento and Fulci)

Romero and 70s zombie films

Hitchcock/ Psychological horror

Herschell Gordon Lewis/ Splatter/ Gore

70s shock horror (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Exorcist, Hills Have Eyes, Halloween etc)

Is there anything I've missed out there? I'm trying to make a definitive list.

I have to admit I'm really struggling with season 2 of Star Trek TNG. Too many 'nice' episodes...too many soapy episodes too (just watched ep 14). I think this is around the point I gave up on it whilst it was on TV. I really enjoyed Season 1, I flew through that. I just hope it gets better than this because the only ones I've watched of the later ones have been Borg episodes (brilliant) and a few Klingon ones (also good)....theres not exactly much alien conflict/ powerful beings/ weird sci fi phenomena going in season 2 so far, thats the elements I loved about the original series and they should never have got away from that too much.