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The Monster *** (1925, Lon Chaney Sr, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmstead, Hallam Cooley) – Classic Movie Review 5857

Lon Chaney Sr enjoys himself as Dr Ziska, a renegade mad scientist who is carrying out experiments in resurrecting dead bodies but finds he needs more ‘blud’. So he diverts the car passengers driving past […]

Aug, 05

Stir of Echoes ***½ (1999, Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Zachary David Cope, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4823

Kevin Bacon stars in Stir of Echoes (1999) as cynical Chicago phone lineman labourer Tom Witzky, who challenges his sister-in law Lisa (Illeana Douglas) to hypnotise him, and finds himself given a sixth sense as a […]

Dec, 30

The Stranglers of Bombay *** (1959, Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, Marne Maitland, Jan Holden) – Movie Review 3281

Director Terence Fisher’s intriguing and quite chilling 1959 Hammer Films adventure/horror movie stars Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, Marne Maitland, Jan Holden, George Pastell, Paul Stassino, Tutte Lemkow, David Spenser, Ewen Solon and Roger […]

Jan, 18

L’Avventura ***** (1960, Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari) – Classic Movie Review 2839

Enigmatic beauty Monica Vitti stars gracefully in one of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s most famous films, L’Avventura (1960). His screenplay with regular collaborator Tonino Guerra and Elio Bartolini focuses on the effect on a group […]

Aug, 22

Gone Girl ***** (2014, Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Carrie Coon) – Movie Review

Director David Fincher’s excellent, super-edgy thriller is continually engrossing and surprising. Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne, the husband who comes home to find his wife is missing, Rosamund Pike as the troubled wife and Kim Dickens as […]

Sep, 27

The Wicker Man ***** (1973, Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Britt Ekland, Lindsay Kemp, Aubrey Morris) – Classic Movie Review 179

Début director Robin Hardy and writer Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth) got together in 1973 to make this hugely imaginative, intelligent and, above all, chillingly scary horror film about the celebration of paganism on a remote Scottish […]

Aug, 21

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