Derek Winnert

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The Grudge *** (2004, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, KaDee Strickland, Clea DuVall, Bill Pullman) – Classic Movie Review 12,328

Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in a useful role for her as Karen Davis, an American care worker exchange student in Tokyo, in director Takashi Shimizu’s 2004 supernatural evil spirit horror film The Grudge, written by […]

Oct, 15

Two on a Guillotine *** (1965, Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 12,251

‘Two on a Guillotine – or 7 nights in a house of terror – or the unkindest cut of all.’ Producer/ director William Conrad’s 1965 Warner Bros American horror film Two on a Guillotine stars […]

Jul, 27

Carnival of Souls **** (1962, Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger) – Classic Movie Review 7821

Director Herk Harvey’s 1962 well-respected, much admired low-budget ($30,000) cult favourite horror movie Carnival of Souls stars Candace Hilligoss as pretty church organist Mary Henry, who escapes from a car crash not quite alive, is drawn […]

Nov, 22

The Asphyx *** (1972, Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire) – Classic Movie Review 6148

Director Peter Newbrook’s macabre 1973 British horror movie stars Robert Stephens as Sir Hugo Cunningham, an obsessed brilliant Victorian scientist who traps the spirit of death (the Greek-named Asphyx of the title), which supposedly enters bodies […]

Oct, 27

Annabelle: Creation ** (2017, Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, Miranda Otto, Lulu Wilson, Anthony LaPaglia, Kerry O’Malley) – Movie Review

12 years after the tragic death of their little girl in a road accident, dollmaker Samuel Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife Esther (Miranda Otto) welcome nun Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) and several young girls from […]

Aug, 12

Beloved *** (1998, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 5355

Oprah Winfrey gives up the talk show day job to be producer-star of her pet project, a lavish and reverentially handled, but ponderously achieved 1998 film version of Toni Morrison’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved. […]

Apr, 28

The Phantom Speaks *** (1945, Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, Jonathan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 5101

Director John English’s neat and nifty little 1945 horror thriller stars Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges and Lynne Roberts, who make a grand job of John K Butler’s original screenplay in which the evil spirit of an executed […]

Mar, 04

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