Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "cult film"

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Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

Woman in the Moon [Frau im Mond] **** (1929, Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim, Gerda Maurus, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 3006

Director Fritz Lang’s last silent movie from 1929 is one of the first and most important sci-fi movies with its story of obsession about a half-mad greedy scientist, Professor Georg Manfeldt (Klaus Pohl), who finds that there […]

Oct, 23

Dr Mabuse, The Gambler [Dr Mabuse, Der Spieler] ***** (1922, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Bernhard Goetzke, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker) – Classic Movie Review 2988

Co-writer/director Fritz Lang’s 1922 German movie is a highly acclaimed and much admired classic of silent cinema. It stars Rudolf Klein-Rogge as the mad master arch-criminal Dr Mabuse, who plans to run Berlin and then rule […]

Oct, 17

Swamp Thing *** (1982, Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise) – Classic Movie Review 2871

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1982 cult horror comic movie, based on Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson‘s D C Comic book characters, is reasonably engaging and amusing. Ray Wise stars as a research scientist Dr Alec Holland, […]

Aug, 31

Twins of Evil ***½ (1971, Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson, Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Kathleen Byron, Damien Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 2,780

Hammer Films’ 1971 horror movie Twins of Evil is splendid Gothic vampire stuff, done with unusual zest and style. The Collinson twins (and Playboy playmates) Mary and Madeleine star as the title duo of identical […]

Aug, 04

I Walked with a Zombie **** (1943, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 2674

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 […]

Jul, 06

Charley Varrick ***** (1973, Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Jacqueline Scott, Felicia Farr, Andy Robinson, John Vernon, Sheree North, Norman Fell) – Classic Movie Review 2581

Producer-director Don Siegel’s gritty 1973 neo-noir crime thriller Charley Varrick is a total humdinger. It is flown to glory with the nimblest of serious work from Walter Matthau as Charley Varrick, a former stunt pilot turned […]

Jun, 10

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