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Blackbeard’s Ghost ** (1968, Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette) – Classic Movie Review 10,170

Peter Ustinov’s engagingly vigorous portrayal as Captain Blackbeard is the main attraction of Walt Disney’s otherwise uninspired comedy fantasy, director Robert Stevenson’s 1968 Blackbeard’s Ghost. Ben Stahl’s story about the bumbling ghost of Blackbeard the […]

Aug, 12

Hamlet ***** (1964, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina) – Classic Movie Review 9602

Director Grigori Kozintsev’s 1964 world cinema masterpiece Hamlet is quite unlike any other version with a very cinematic vision shown by director Kozintsev, especially in his dramatic depiction of the towering castle of Elsinore and […]

Apr, 05

Ghost Story *** (1981, Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, John Houseman, Craig Wasson, Patricia Neal, Alice Krige) – Classic Movie Review 8493

Director John Irvin’s 1981 chiller Ghost Story tells an atmospheric horror tale that unfortunately does not add up to a sum of its individual fascinating parts: Peter Straub’s intriguing bestseller novel and a quartet of […]

May, 23

Ghost Story ** (1974, Marianne Faithfull, Barbara Shelley, Murray Melvin, Larry Dann, Vivian MacKerrell) – Classic Movie Review 8490

The 1974 Ghost Story has Marianne Faithfull, horror queen Barbara Shelley’s final cinema film appearance, a killer doll, and the man who really was Withnail. Stephen Weeks’s third film (after I, Monster and Gawain and […]

May, 21

The Frighteners *** (1996, Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson) – Classic Movie Review 8418

Director Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural black comedy horror thriller The Frighteners, in the style of Beetlejuice complete with a Danny Elfman score, is poundingly pacey, reasonably scary and original enough, but, when the brilliant special […]

May, 01

The Ghost of St Michael’s **** (1941, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 8392

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 vintage British black and white comedy thriller The Ghost of St Michael’s stars Will Hay again as a tatty teacher called William Lamb involved with spies once more. Hay takes on […]

Apr, 23

Amityville 3 [Amityville 3: The Demon] [Amityville 3-D] ** (1983, Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark, Meg Ryan, Lori Loughlin) – Classic Movie Review 8385

Now here’s a tall storey! A sceptical reporter called John Baxter (Tony Roberts) buys the infamous Long Island Amityville horror house to write an exposé on what he sees as the supposed supernatural events and […]

Apr, 22

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