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Tales from the Crypt *** (1972, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Richard Greene, Nigel Patrick, Barbara Murray, Roy Dotrice, Robin Phillips, Patrick Magee, Geoffrey Bayldon) – Classic Movie Review 3105

Director Freddie Francis’s ghoulish 1972 British portmanteau chiller stars Sir Ralph Richardson as The Crypt Keeper, an evil monk, who shows a vision of the future to five people lost on a tour through some […]

Nov, 28

And Now the Screaming Starts! *** (1973, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 3095

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1973 British chiller is a bizarre, gruesome and handsome-looking Amicus horror tale about a family curse in which a disembodied hand comes through a picture on a wall and avenges the […]

Nov, 25

Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

The Masque of the Red Death **** (1964, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, Patrick Magee, Nigel Green) – Classic Movie Review 2847

Director Roger Corman’s highly stylish and imaginatively achieved 1964 horror movie is his seventh adaptation of an 1842 Edgar Allan Poe short story (with another, Hop-Frog, as a sub-plot). A second sub-plot comes from Torture by Hope […]

Aug, 23

Seance on a Wet Afternoon **** (1964, Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Nanette Newman, Patrick Magee, Margaret Lacey) – Classic Movie Review 2425

Writer-director-co-producer Bryan Forbes directed this extraordinary, spine-tingling psychological thriller about a near insane medium. Seance on a Wet Afternoon is an exciting work of a gifted British film-maker in his creative prime in 1964. Kim […]

Apr, 25

Chariots of Fire ***** (1981, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Ian Holm, Nigel Havers, Nicholas Farrell, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 1399

Director Hugh Hudson’s four-Oscar-winning 1981 triumph Chariots of Fire tells the real-life story of two athletes, Scottish missionary Eric Liddell and Jewish Cambridge University undergraduate Harold Abrahams, who ran for Britain in the 1924 Olympics. […]

Jul, 06

Barry Lyndon **** (1975, Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Murray Melvin, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 401

Ryan O’Neal gets by on screen presence and charisma, despite his odd casting as the roguish Irish farm boy turned adventurer, in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 extraordinary labour of love period drama film Barry Lyndon. Stanley […]

Nov, 13

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