Derek Winnert

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Monster Hunt 2 [Zhuo yao ji 2] ** (2018, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Baihe Bai, Boran Jing) – Movie Review

Director Raman Hui’s fantasy movie sequel is good natured enough and fun up to a point, with game performances and a good, costly looking production, with lovely and lavish art direction. But Monster Hunt 2 is […]

Feb, 24

Monster on the Campus *** (1958, Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Whit Bissell, Joanna Moore, Troy Donahue, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters) – Classic Movie Review 6270

This 1958 horror sci-fi shocker from director Jack Arnold, the maker of the 1957 classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, cannot perhaps attain the same excellent high standard of that one. But, even so, it is […]

Nov, 19

Return of the Fly ** (1959, Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 5303

The best news about director Edward L Bernds’s 1959 creature feature horror movie Return of the Fly is that it brings back beloved horror icon Vincent Price from the 1958 original The Fly. But it […]

Apr, 16

Frankenstein *** (2004, Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 4623

Director Marcus Nispel’s stylish, well-acted and engrossing 2004 contemporary horror thriller, set in present-day America, is based on a concept by Dean R Koontz and written by John Shiban, inspired by Mary Shelley’s famous tale. Parker Posey and Adam […]

Nov, 09

Where the Wild Things Are ***½ (2009, voices Max Records, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Dano) – Classic Movie Review 4418

Maurice Sendak’s tiny classic children’s story – it has only 338 words, giving a film adaptation quite a headache – becomes a lovely, quite gorgeous-looking looking but hugely overblown 2009 movie – thanks to the […]

Sep, 26

Horror Express *** (1972, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas, Alberto de Mendoza, Helga Liné, Silvia Tortosa ) – Classic Movie Review 3778

Director Eugenio [Gene] Martin’s Spanish-British 1972 thriller is an enjoyable express ride down the track of terror, in a tale jam packed with enough incidents for half a dozen regular horror films. Christopher Lee stars as […]

May, 28

Werewolf of London *** (1935, Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Spring Byington) – Classic Movie Review 3763

Director Stuart Walker’s 1935 Universal horror movie Werewolf of London is the first Hollywood mainstream film to feature a werewolf. It stars Henry Hull as Dr Wilfred Glendon, who transforms from English botanist into a werewolf […]

May, 25

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