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The Quiet Ones (Jared Harris, Sam Claflin) – Movie Review

Jared Harris battles a weak screenplay and underpowered direction as an arrogant Oxford University physics professor who assembles a small team of students to conduct an experiment on a teenage girl (Olivia Cooke) with psychiatric problems, […]

Apr, 09

The Haunting *** (1999, Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 997

American movies fans forked out more than $100 million for director Jan de Bont’s daft but ingenious and amusing 1999 supernatural chiller. It’s the old, old haunted house story. With no acting really required, Liam […]

Mar, 26

Island of Lost Souls **** (1932, Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams) – Classic Movie Review 907

Director Erle C Kenton’s 1932 horror movie is still the best film version of H G Wells’s story The Island of Dr Moreau. It was considered so horrific that it was banned by the British […]

Mar, 12

The Island of Dr Moreau (1977, Burt Lancaster) – Classic Film Review 906

Burt Lancaster stars in 1977 as mad scientist Dr Paul Moreau who creates human-animal hybrids in a gripping, atmospheric and lavish remake of the 1933 film The Island of Lost Souls with Charles Laughton, from the […]

Mar, 12

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde **** (1920, John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Nita Naldi) – Classic Movie Review 781

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920): The first part of Dr Jekyll’s initial transformation into Mr Hyde is achieved without makeup, relying solely on John Barrymore’s uncanny ability to contort his face and body.  Director […]

Feb, 01

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde **** (1941, Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner) – Classic Movie Review 780

Victor Fleming’s 1941 remake of the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde met with poor reviews in its day. Despite it drawbacks, mainly the casting, Dr […]

Jan, 31

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ***** (1931, Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart) – Classic Movie Review 779

The 1931 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the first horror movie to win an Academy Award and the first film to be screened at the world’s first film festival. Fredric March won the 1932 […]

Jan, 31

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