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Doctor Faustus ** (1967, Richard Burton, Andreas Teuber, Elizabeth Taylor ) – Classic Movie Review 9884

In the 1967 film Doctor Faustus, Richard Burton records his intense and honourable 1966 stage performance at the Oxford Playhouse with the student actors of the Oxford University Drama Society (OUDS) of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century […]

Jun, 09

Phantom of the Paradise **** (1974, Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham) – Classic Movie Review 4433

Writer-director Brian De Palma’s technically imaginative 1974 film revision of The Phantom of the Opera updates the horror old story to modern-day America and the pop scene of the early Seventies, turning it into a […]

Sep, 28

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie *½ (1989, Ron Fazio, Rick Collins, Phoebe Legere, John Altamura) – Classic Movie Review 4379

Producers-directors Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman’s 1989 second sequel in their cheapo horror spoof trilogy is thin and by no means totally satisfying so don’t expect too much. But it is often still surprisingly funny […]

Sep, 18

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

Gothika **½ (2004, Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2032

Director Mathieu Kassovitz’s moody and interesting 2004 horror movie stars Halle Berry as Dr Miranda Grey, a repressed jail psychiatrist who ends up in one of her own cells after she has stopped her car […]

Jan, 02

Little Nicky * (2000, Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel) – Classic Movie Review 1976

Director Stephen Brill’s 2000 silly comedy tries hard to raise laughs but it is mostly almost painfully unfunny. Adam Sandler stars as Nicky, the geeky, mild-mannered son of The Devil (Harvey Keitel), sent from Hell to New […]

Dec, 19

The Devil Rides Out **** (1968, Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Patrick Mower, Paul Eddington, Sarah Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 1,938

Director Terence Fisher’s thrilling and scary 1968 Hammer Films occult horror film The Devil Rides Out stars Christopher Lee, who relishes being cast against type as the hero Duc de Richleau, and Charles Gray as […]

Dec, 09

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