Derek Winnert

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Basket Case 3: The Progeny * (1991, Kevin Van Hentenryck, Annie Ross, Gil Roper) – Classic Movie Review 10,083

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter’s bizarre and fairly ghastly 1991 third episode in the black comedy horror series, Basket Case 3: The Progeny, in which Duane finds his basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father and […]

Jul, 25

Basket Case *** (1982, Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner) – Classic Movie Review 10,082

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter provides good grisly cult film fun with his campy 1982 low-budget ($35,000) comedy horror film Basket Case about a young man who checks into a seedy New York Times Square hotel with […]

Jul, 25

Basket Case 2 (1990, Kevin Van Hentenryck, Annie Ross, Judy Grafe, Heather Rattray) – Classic Movie Review 10,081

Director Frank Henenlotter’s 1990 ineffective sequel Basket Case 2 to his campy 1982 horror film hit Basket Case sees Duane Bradley (Kevin Van Hentenryck) rescued from the pavement where he lay at the climax of […]

Jul, 24

Minnie and Moskowitz **** (1971, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Val Avery) – Classic Movie Review 8534

Minnie and Moskowitz is a surprisingly relaxed and gentle 1971 romantic drama film from cult favourite writer-director John Cassavetes. It once again stars his wife Gena Rowlands, who plays Minnie, a Los Angeles museum curator, […]

Jun, 01

99 River Street **** (1953, John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 7555

Cult director Phil Karlson’s excellent little-known 1953 film noir crime melodrama 99 River Street is a satisfying walk on the wild side that keeps up a cracking pace from start to finish, with Franz Planer’s […]

Sep, 10

The Hand (1981, Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary Murphy) – Classic Movie Review 5547

This silly and really quite dreadful horror thriller flick from writer-director Oliver Stone is good for a laugh but wastes Michael Caine as cartoonist Jon Lansdale, a comic book artist who loses his drawing hand in […]

Jun, 04

Bloody Mama **** (1970, Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud, Diane Varsi, Bruce Dern, Robert De Niro, Robert Walden, Alex Nicol) – Classic Movie Review 5368

Producer-director Roger Corman’s exciting and fast-moving 1970 gangster thriller cheapie stars the redoubtable Shelley Winters, who eagerly grabs her fine acting chance and her machine gun as uber-forceful Thirties mobster Kate ‘Ma’ Barker. Ma leads […]

Apr, 29

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