Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "strangulation"

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Bluebeard *** (1944, John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 10,322

Director Edgar G Ulmer’s good little 19th-century-set 1944 serial killer horror thriller Bluebeard finds John Carradine on top form as puppeteer Gaston Morel, the Paris portrait-artist and strangler who comes under the spell of a […]

Sep, 18

Ghoulies * (1984, Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance) – Classic Movie Review 10,283

Director Luca Bercovici’s 1984 film Ghoulies is a gruesome black comedy horror flick, in which Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) moves in with his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) to an old tumbledown mansion, where he assumes […]

Sep, 09

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder *** (1987, Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown) – Classic Movie Review 9,629

The 1987 TV movie Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her sixth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the 1976 novel by Agatha Christie.  Director John Davies’s 1987 […]

Apr, 12

Scribe [La mécanique de l’ombre] **** (2016, François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila ) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Thomas Kruithof’s really good and exciting French Seventies-style 2016 paranoia thriller is intensely acted, grippingly done and stylishly filmed. François Cluzet stars as the depressed, alcoholic, recently unemployed Duval, who is contacted by […]

Jul, 21

Shadows and Fog ** (1991, Woody Allen, John Cusack, Mia Farrow, Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster, Lily Tomlin, Donald Pleasence, Madonna, Fred Gwynne, Julie Kavner, John Malkovich) – Classic Movie Review 5755

Writer-director-star Woody Allen’s 1991 movie pastiches the 1920s melodrama, complete with black and white and chiaroscuro effects, and a tale of a Jack the Ripper-style murderer on the loose in the shadows and fog. It […]

Jul, 14

Mirrors 2 **½ (2010, Nick Stahl, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Evan Jones, William Katt, Christy Romano) – Classic Movie Review 4626

And so, the terror lives on as Nick Stahl stars as our new hero Max Matheson in director Víctor García’s well-crafted 2010 horror thriller sequel to the 2008 hit Mirrors. This time, our hero is Max, […]

Nov, 10

The Night Caller [Blood Beast from Outer Space] ** (1965, John Saxon, Maurice Denham, Patricia Haines, Alfred Burke, John Carson, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 3961

Director John Gilling injects some style into this fairly entertaining and enjoyable 1965 slice of cheaply made British sci-fi thriller. The era’s mandatory minor American visiting star John Saxon to play the lead, Dr Jack Costain, […]

Jul, 02

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