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Music of the Heart *** (1999, Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Cloris Leachman, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6517

Director Wes Craven’s heartwarming, inspirational 1999 drama stars Meryl Streep as a teacher who fights her education board to stop cuts and be able to coach underprivileged Harlem kids the violin. Off his usual territory, […]

Jan, 03

The Serpent and the Rainbow *** (1988, Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield) – Classic Movie Review 2872

Director Wes Craven tackles the darkly disturbing dreams of the undead in this creepy 1988 voodoo hokum carefully tailored for horror buffs. Bill Pullman stars as Dennis Alan, an anthropologist who goes to Haiti to investigate […]

Aug, 31

Swamp Thing *** (1982, Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise) – Classic Movie Review 2871

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1982 cult horror comic movie, based on Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson‘s D C Comic book characters, is reasonably engaging and amusing. Ray Wise stars as a research scientist Dr Alec Holland, […]

Aug, 31

The Last House on the Left *** (1972, Lucy Grantham, Sandra Cassel, David Hess, Marc Sheffier, Jeramie Rain, Fred Lincoln, Gaylord St James, Cynthia Carr) – Classic Movie Review 2870

‘To avoid fainting, keep repeating “It’s only a movie…It’s only a movie…only a movie…”‘ Writer-editor-director Wes Craven’s 1972 revenge horror thriller is his debut feature film, a difficult and controversial shocker of a movie. It […]

Aug, 31

Scream 2 **** (1997, Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O’Connell, Jada Pinkett, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 2830

Two years after the slasher maniac went on a killing spree in the American suburban town called Woodsboro, the survivors of Scream (1996) are back for a second bout of expert terror, as cash-in film-makers […]

Aug, 18

The Hills Have Eyes **** (1977, Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer, Michael Berryman) – Classic Movie Review 2814

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1977 horror movie is a great, in-your-face, visceral shocker which established his international reputation. In the credible horror story, a tribe of deformed, inter-bred crazed cannibals pick off people on holiday, whose car […]

Aug, 15

A Nightmare on Elm Street **** (1984, Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Ronee Blakley) – Classic Movie Review 626

Wisecracking, dream-stalking, hacking slasher Freddy Krueger makes his terrifying screen début in 1984, slicing and dicing his way through teenagers’ nightmares in a welter of gags and gore, in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Robert […]

Jan, 04

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