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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake *** (1959, Henry Daniell, Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, Paul Cavanagh) – Classic Movie Review 5300

Director Edward L Cahn’s 1959 horror movie is a high-gear low-budget black-and-white horror film chiller, with on-form players Henry Daniell, Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, and Paul Cavanagh starring in an amusingly absurd tale […]

Apr, 16

Bride of the Gorilla * (1951, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr, Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanagh) – Classic Movie Review 5288

‘Her clothes torn away, screaming in terror!’ Writer-director Curt Siodmak’s 1951 horror movie Bride of the Gorilla is a bizarre, but entertaining so-bad-it’s-good shocker, with preposterous voodoo curse things going on in a South American […]

Apr, 14

Rings * (2017, Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Movie Review

Director F Javier Gutiérrez’s lame and struggling 2017 supernatural horror movie is an incoherent, arbitrary and pointless reboot of The Ring (2002) and The Ring Two (2005). Since there is no sign of original series star Naomi […]

Feb, 15

A Haunting in Cawdor *** (2015, Cary Elwes, Shelby Young, Michael Welch) – Movie Review

Shelby Young stars as a young woman serving her jail sentence at a work release programme with other parolees in the US Midwest at the dilapidated Cawdor Barn Theatre, run by creepy, secretive failed Broadway […]

Mar, 09

The Reptile *** (1966, Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 3304

Director John Gilling’s amusing, well-mounted and moody 1966 Hammer horror The Reptile is atmospherically set in an eerie Cornwall. Anthony Hinds (screen writing under the pseudonym of  John Elder) provides a sinister tale about a […]

Jan, 30

The Mummy’s Shroud *** (1967, André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck) – Classic Movie Review 3272

Eddie Powell plays the mummy of an Egyptian slave who is brought back to life in the England of 1920 in director John Gilling’s atmospheric 1967 Hammer horror – the third part of the series following […]

Jan, 29

Vampire Circus *** (1972, John Moulder-Brown, Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Lynne Frederick, Thorley Walters, Elizabeth Seal, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 3157

Director Robert Young’s 1972 Hammer Films British chiller Vampire Circus is a neat, eerie and attractively strange Hammer horror about a 19th-century touring circus show, whose performers are vampires, able to break through the black […]

Dec, 15

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