Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "arctic"

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Deep Freeze * (2002, Götz Otto, David Millbern, Alexandra Kamp) – Classic Movie Review 8262

In the story and screenplay by Robert Boris, researchers in the Antarctic unearth a bizarre creature in the frozen wastes and take it back to America only to discover that it has a taste for […]

Mar, 19

Arctic ***½ (2018, Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir) – Movie Review

Mads Mikkelsen stars in co-writer/ director Joe Penna’s 2018 survival thriller Arctic as Overgård, an incredibly strong, brave and resourceful man who desperately tries to survive the Arctic after a plane crash. [Spoiler alert] His his long-awaited […]

Sep, 27

The Deadly Mantis * (1957, Craig Stevens, Alix Talton, William Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3918

Yes, it’s a hilariously feeble monster insect woken up by an earthquake at the North Pole. Director Nathan Juran’s amusingly feeble 1957 Universal-International sci-fi horror film monster movie The Deadly Mantis stars Craig Stevens as […]

Jul, 02

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms *** (1953, Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Woods, Steve Brodie, Ross Elliott, Jack Pennick) – Classic Movie Review 795

A fictional frozen hibernating prehistoric rhedosaurus – a 200-foot carnivorous dinosaur with four legs – is thawed out in the Arctic Circle by an atomic bomb test and is spotted by physicist Professor Tom Nesbitt, […]

Feb, 02

The Thing From Another World ***** (1951, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness) – Classic Movie Review 54

‘Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!’ This distinguished, influential and imaginatively staged 1951 vintage sci-fi horror thriller, remade by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell as The Thing in 1982, is still a […]

Jul, 15

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