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The Wolf Man **** (1941, Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Warren William, Bela Lugosi) – Classic Movie Review 1928

Director George Waggner’s 1941 classic Universal Studios horror movie stars Lon Chaney Jnr as The Wolf Man, Lawrence Stewart Talbot, who turns into a werewolf (with the help of Jack Pierce’s outstanding makeup) when a […]

Dec, 07

Ninotchka ***** (1939, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi) – Classic Movie Review 1856

  Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was huge news in the Thirties – the most famous female movie star and the Queen of Hollywood, the Angelina Jolie of her day. As a riposte to the ‘Garbo Talks!’ […]

Nov, 18

Island of Lost Souls **** (1932, Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams) – Classic Movie Review 907

Director Erle C Kenton’s 1932 horror movie is still the best film version of H G Wells’s story The Island of Dr Moreau. It was considered so horrific that it was banned by the British […]

Mar, 12

Plan 9 from Outer Space **** (1956, Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Tor Johnson, Gregory Walcott, Tom Keene, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Criswell) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 2

Writer-director Edward D Wood Jnr’s legendarily awful 1956 cult-movie favourite is totally amazing, often hysterically funny. An all-time-great so-bad-it’s-good cult classic, it’s at the head of most people’s worst films of all time. Yet, even […]

Nov, 09

Ed Wood ***** (1994, Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray) – Classic Movie Review 98

‘Ed, this isn’t the real world. You’ve surrounded yourself with a bunch of weirdoes!’ – Ed Wood’s girlfriend Dolores Fuller. In this sensationally good 1994 film, Johnny Depp is at his most winning as the […]

Jul, 28

Dracula ***** (1931, Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye) – Classic Movie Review 89

Tod Browning’s 1931 horror film Dracula is one of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies. Bela Lugosi re-creates his theatre role magnificently, with great eerie, other-worldly authority.  One of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies, director Tod […]

Jul, 25

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