Derek Winnert

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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985, Phil Daniels, Alun Armstrong, Bruce Payne) – Classic Movie Review 11,888

Director Alan Clarke’s 1985 British vampire snooker musical film Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire is written by Trevor Preston, and stars Phil Daniels, Alun Armstrong and Bruce Payne. A 17-year-old snooker hustler Billy the Kid […]

Jan, 27

Howling VI: The Freaks *** (1991, Brendan Hughes, Bruce Payne, Michele Matheson, Sean Sullivan, Carol Lynley) – Classic Movie Review 11,597

Director Hope Perello’s 1991 direct-to-video horror film Howling VI: The Freaks represents a return to terrifying form in this sixth instalment of the werewolf saga. It is a satisfyingly eerie sequel about a wolfman (Brendan Hughes) […]

Sep, 24

Devils of Darkness ** (1965, William Sylvester, Hubert Noël, Carole Gray, Tracy Reed) – Classic Movie Review 11,053

‘Called from the Grave…To Follow a Mystic Cult of Evil’ Director Lance Comfort’s 1965 Devils of Darkness [Talisman] from Planet Film Productions is a sometimes lively shoestring shocker about a villainous vampire, Armand du Molière, aka […]

Mar, 28

Vampyres [Daughters of Darkness] *** (1974, Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Brown, Brian Deacon, Sally Faulkner, Michael Byrne) – Classic Movie Review 11,034

‘They shared the pleasures of the flesh, and the horrors of the grave!’ Spanish exploitation director José Ramón Larraz’s provocative, erotic and bloody 1974 British soft-core lesbian vampire horror film Vampyres [Daughters of Darkness] stars […]

Mar, 22

Dark Shadows ** (2012, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 10,801

Director Tim Burton’s playfully eerie fantasy horror comedy Dark Shadows (2012), starring Johnny Depp as the 18th-century vampire Barnabas Collins who awakens in the 20th century, is insubstantial and unsatisfying, with lively characters and striking […]

Jan, 17

House of Dark Shadows *** (1970, Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Roger Davis, Nancy Barrett, Joan Bennett, John Karlen) – Classic Movie Review 10,799

‘Blood-Lust! Fangs bared, the vampire is searching for a mate!’ Dan Curtis’s stylish 1970 horror film House of Dark Shadows stars Jonathan Frid very effectively as the vampire Barnabas Collins. ‘Blood-Lust! Fangs bared, the vampire […]

Jan, 16

A Fool There Was *** (1915, Theda Bara, Edward José, Runa Hodges, Mabel Frenyear) – Classic Movie Review 10,690

Theda Bara plays the cinema’s first sex goddess, a seductive woman referred to as a ‘vampire’, in director Frank Powell’s 1915 American silent drama film A Fool There Was,  which was long considered controversial for […]

Dec, 20

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