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Writer-director Sam Raimi’s seminal 1981 low-budget horror movie The Evil Dead is still a bit of a scary, gut-churning experience, with the film-maker gleefully piling on as much substantial graphic horror violence and gore as […]
Joan Crawford stars as Millicent ‘Milly’ Wetherby, a middle-aged typist spinster in the autumn of her salad days, who takes a crazy, out-of-character decision to marry Burt Hanson (Cliff Robertson), a charismatic but highly dubious younger […]
Director Roger Corman’s interesting, tuneful and suspenseful 1957 B-movie cult classic is a rock ‘n’ roll thriller film tailored for the drive-in theatres of the day. Russell Johnson and Jonathan Haze star as killers Joey and […]
Cult director Joseph H Lewis’s moderate low-budget 1952 adventure drama thriller stars Howard Keel, Jane Greer, Patricia Medina and Keenan Wynn. It all starts when a Canadian Western Airways Douglas DC-3 airliner takes off from Vancouver but catches […]
Cult writer-director Samuel Fuller’s good-looking 1955 film noir crime thriller about an American protection racket in Tokyo is commendably gritty, tough and edgy. The always reliable actor Robert Stack stars as the undercover agent, US […]
Robert Mitchum stars as old-hand rodeo rider Jeff McCloud in director Nicholas Ray’s flavoursome, rather special, character- and atmosphere-driven 1952 Western drama. It is one of Ray’s lesser-known but best movies. Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, Arthur […]
Director Jacques Tourneur creates a superb air of unease in this exceptional 1943 vintage cult horror movie. In one of his finest, most eerie films, producer Val Lewton employs his zombies to poetic effect and […]