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Our Mother’s House **** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Yootha Joyce, Margaret Brooks, Mark Lester, Pamela Franklin, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls, Phoebe Nicholls) – Classic Movie Review 4198

The 1967 British thriller drama film Our Mother’s House about seven children who hide the death of their deeply religious mother by burying her body in the garden of their dilapidated suburban Victorian home is […]

Aug, 19

The Omega Man **** (1971, Charlton Heston, Rosalind Cash, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 4055

Charlton Heston finds a useful role in this atmospheric and pretty creepy 1971 Twilight Zone-type zombie sci-fi thriller, as Army doctor Robert Neville, one of the last men alive after a germ war between Russia […]

Jul, 19

The Space Children ** (1958, Adam Williams, Peggy Webber, Michel Ray, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 4042

‘Slowly…and with horror the parents realized THEIR CHILDREN WERE THE SLAVES OF THE THING FROM OUTER SPACE!’ Director Jack Arnold’s 1958 Paramount movie is a slice of some simple sci-fi silliness with a peace-mongering moral message that […]

Jul, 18

Moonfleet *** (1955, Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindors, Jon Whiteley) – Classic Movie Review 3905

Director Fritz Lang’s lively but cardboard-looking 1955 vintage costume adventure, based freely on J Meade Falkner’s classic story, is way off Lang’s usual territory. It is somewhat shakily made as what looks like a chore […]

Jun, 23

High-Rise ** (2015, Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy) – Movie Review

Director Ben Wheatley’s ambitious but excruciating satire is on the one hand an admirable British art film but on the other hand incredibly hard to sit through. One hour is quite enough, thank you. A handful […]

Apr, 01

The Naked Kiss **** (1964, Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante) – Classic Movie Review 3490

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’ s extraordinary 1964 film noir crime drama movie stars Constance Towers, who gives a towering performance as the former hooker Kelly, who comes to look for redemption in the town of Grantville. Naturally, the […]

Mar, 21

Children of the Damned *** (1964, Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Patrick Wymark, Ralph Michael) – Classic Movie Review 3195

Director Anton M Leader’s 1964 further Sixties adaptation of John Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel The Midwich Cuckoos is a less successful, but still intriguing and thoughtful, thematic sequel follow-up to Village of the Damned (1960). […]

Dec, 29

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