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Little Joe **** (2019, Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Lindsay Duncan) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Jessica Hausner’s engrossing, unsettling and oddly disturbing posh horror fantasy mystery Little Joe (2019) is extremely smart and clever. It looks smart and its script is clever. The acting direction and production are […]

Mar, 07

The Mutations * (1974, Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Julie Ege, Michael Dunn, Scott Antony) – Classic Movie Review 9048

Director Jack Cardiff’s 1974 exploiter British horror movie The Mutations stars Donald Pleasence as Professor Nolter, the typical movie mad doctor/ crazed scientist, who uses his students to create monstrous amalgams of humans and plants, […]

Nov, 03

Konga * (1961, Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad, Austin Trevor, George Pastell) – Classic Movie Review 8054

Director John Lemont’s hilariously dreadful old 1961 British horror movie Konga stars Michael Gough as crazy botanist Dr Charles Decker, who finds how to grow plants and animals to an enormous size and experiments on […]

Jan, 23

The Day of the Triffids *** (1963, Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7516

Director Steve Sekely’s 1962 British horror movie The Day of the Triffids is a disappointing but still fun and endearing version of John Wyndham’s extremely fine classic chiller novel about the meteor showers that blind […]

Aug, 30

Bodyguard **** (1948, Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, Elizabeth Risdon) – Classic Movie Review 7122

Director Richard O Fleischer’s 1948 Bodyguard is a tough, taut and tense little Forties B-movie thriller, very fine of its type. It is an outstanding and excellently handled film noir who-done-it. Lawrence Tierney stars as […]

Jun, 05

Little Shop of Horrors **** (1986, Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin) – Classic Movie Review 3,871

Frank Oz’s 1986 movie musical of the off-Broadway stage show based on Roger Corman’s 1960 cult black comedy horror film The Little Shop of Horrors is colourful and winning. Little Shop of Horrors has much […]

Jun, 15

The Little Shop of Horrors **** (1960, Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 3,870

Roger Corman spent only $30,000 and took just two days to shoot the now highly regarded 1960 cult black comedy horror film The Little Shop of Horrors. Incredibly, producer-director Roger Corman spent only $30,000 and […]

Jun, 15

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