Derek Winnert

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Night of Terror ** (1933, Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, Tully Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 10,453

‘A mad murdering midnight menace! ‘ Director Benjamin Stoloff’s quaintly entertaining 1933 Bryan Foy Productions/ Columbia Pictures Old Dark House murder mystery horror film Night of Terror [He Lived to Kill] [Terror in the Night] stars Bela […]

Oct, 23

Jeepers Creepers **** (2001, Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck) – Classic Movie Review 267

Duel meets Scream in Jeepers Creepers (2001), this really scary, scalding 2001 horror monster movie from writer-director Victor Salva and producer Francis Ford Coppola. Gina Philips and Justin Long star as young Trish and her kid brother […]

Oct, 02

The Exorcist ***** (1973, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J Cobb, Jason Miller) – Classic Movie Review 110

Director William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is the big daddy of all exorcism movies, often copied, but never bettered. Made in 1973, it is still a terrifying, gut-wrenching supernatural horror yarn. Linda Blair stars as a […]

Jul, 30

Dracula [Horror of Dracula] ***** (1958, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling) – Classic Movie Review 90

‘I am Dracula and I welcome you to my house. I must apologise for not being here to greet you personally but I trust you’ve found everything you needed.’ – Count Dracula. In 1958 Hammer […]

Jul, 25

Dracula ***** (1931, Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye) – Classic Movie Review 89

One of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies, director Tod Browning’s 1931 horror film Dracula is essential viewing. It is based on the Hamilton Deane and John Balderston hit play version of the Bram Stoker novel, […]

Jul, 25

The Hunger ***** (1983, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon) – Classic Movie Review 87

Based on the 1981 novel by Whitley Strieber, this enchanting 1983 erotic vampire movie is one of cinema’s most crucial of its perennially popular kind. It is perhaps even more remarkable for its iconic characters […]

Jul, 24

The Shining ***** (1980, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Anne Jackson, Joe Turkel, Philip Stone) – Classic Movie Review 85

Jack Nicholson’s barnstorming, grandstanding performance dominates Stanley Kubrick’s superlative 1980 chiller The Shining, based (remotely) on the Stephen King novel. Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a slick but rather seedy loser who is hired by smooth […]

Jul, 24

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