Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Bram Stoker"

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The Awakening ** (1980, Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist) – Classic Movie Review 7506

Mike Newell makes his debut as cinema director for the 1980 British horror movie The Awakening, a remake of the 1971 Hammer favourite Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb, and also another version of the 1903 Bram Stoker novel […]

Aug, 28

The Lair of the White Worm ** (1988, Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Capaldi, Sammi Davis, Stratford Johns) – Classic Movie Review 5448

Writer-producer-director Ken Russell’s wildly over-the-top 1988 horror movie The Lair of the White Worm re-tells the 1911 Bram Stoker (author of Dracula) tale about the ultimate evil worm that lives on through sexy high priestess Lady […]

May, 14

Vampyros Lesbos *** (1971, Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Ewa Stromberg, Paul Muller) – Classic Movie Review 3153

‘A Psycho-Sexadelic Horror Freakout!’ Dennis Price stars as Dr Alwin Seward in director Jesús Franco’s 1971 Spanish erotic horror movie about vixen vampiress Countess Nadine Carody (Soledad Miranda) seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable […]

Dec, 13

Count Dracula [Nachts, Wenn Dracula Erwacht] *** (1970, Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm) – Classic Movie Review 3107

In co-writer/director Jesús (Jess) Franco’s creepy 1970 Spanish horror thriller, a weary old Count Dracula finds the blood of young maidens that he needs to be young again. Christopher Lee is once again chillingly cool […]

Nov, 28

The Scars of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Anouska Hempel, Patrick Troughton, Michael Gwynn) – Classic Movie Review 2779

A rubber bat creaks down a wire and dribbles ketchup from the corner of its mouth onto a skeleton in an open coffin, and this fades in and out on an image of Christopher Lee. […]

Aug, 04

Dracula: Dead and Loving It *** (1995, Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 1732

Producer/co-writer/director Mel Brooks revisits one of his finest hours – the 1974 Young Frankenstein for a belated companion piece that has enough good humour and amusing jokes for tolerant Brooks aficionados to call this a […]

Oct, 02

Dracula **** (1979, Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Kate Nelligan) – Classic Movie Review 1729

‘It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.’ Director John Badham’s richly enjoyable 1979 horror movie is a lavish, beautiful […]

Oct, 02

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