Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Three in the Attic *** (1968, Christopher Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Judy Pace, Maggie Thrett, Nan Martin, Reva Rose, John Beck) – Classic Movie Review 4846

Director Richard Wilson’s provocative and fairly amusing 1968 Swinging Sixties sex comedy drama with a point to it Three in the Attic stars Christopher Jones as womanising Paxton Quigley, a smarmy two-timing (well, three-timing) college […]

Jan, 04 · in Reviews

Blood Bath * (1966, William Campbell, Linda Saunders, Marissa Mathes, Sid Haig) – Classic Movie Review 4845

‘A new HIGH in BLOOD-CHILLING HORROR!’ Writer-directors Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman’s 1966 horror film stars William Campbell, Linda [Lori] Saunders, Marissa Mathes, and Sid Haig as Abdul the Arab. This much-troubled Roger Corman produced effort […]

Jan, 04 · in Reviews

Queen of Blood ** (1966, John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hopper, Judi Meredith, Florence Marly) – Classic Movie Review 4844

‘Turns the Milky Way into a Galaxy of Gore.’ Director Curtis Harrington’s 1966 B-movie Pathécolor sci-fi horror film is based on the screenplay for the 1963 Soviet film Mechte Navstrechu [A Dream Come True] and stars John Saxon, […]

Jan, 04

The Da Vinci Code *** (2006, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina) – Classic Movie Review 4843

Tom Hanks recalled: ‘Oh, God, that was a commercial enterprise. The Da Vinci Code film (2006) was hooey. Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey.’  Director Ron Howard’s 2006 mystery thriller The Da Vinci Code […]

Jan, 04

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! ** (1978, David Miller, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 3948

Co-writer/ director John De Bello’s cheap (budget of $90,000) and trashy 1978 horror movie is an energetically silly spoof of sci-fi cult films. It stars David Miller, George Wilson and Sharon Taylor. They advertised it […]

Jan, 04

Night of the Living Dead *** (1990, Tony Wood, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles) – Classic Movie Review 4841

This 1990 straight colour remake of George A Romero’s 1968 classic black-and-white horror film Night of the Living Dead is directed by his makeup expert Tom Savani, with a bigger budget and more gore, and […]

Jan, 04

Night of the Living Dead **** (1968, Judith O’Dea, Duane Jones, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4842

Co-writer/ director George A Romero’s eerie, grizzly 1968 horror movie Night of the Living Dead, with its yarn about a group of panicked strangers holing up in an isolated farmhouse to elude a throng of […]

Jan, 04

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