Derek Winnert

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The Eye 2 [Gin gwai 2] *** (2004, Qi Shu, Eugenia Yuan, Jesdaporn Pholdee) – Classic Movie Review 5464

‘Suicide is a dreadful sin. The souls of those who committed suicide are obliged to repeat their painful deaths every day.’ So, this 2004 sequel is not a very cheerful Asian chiller then, as the […]

May, 16

The Eye [Gin gwai] *** (2002, Angelica Lee, Chutcha Rujinanon, Lawrence Chou) – Classic Movie Review 5463

A young blind woman (Lee Sin-Je, aka Anjelica Lee) undergoes cornea-transplant surgery, giving her back the gift of sight. But the operation leaves her terrorised by increasingly scary visions. Now she must find the cornea’s […]

May, 16

Night of the Ghouls * (1959, Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Paul Marco, Criswell) – Classic Movie Review 5,287

The astoundingly awful 1959 horror sci-fi film Night of the Ghouls is another ghoulishly ghastly movie from writer-producer-director Edward D Wood Jr, the world’s most enjoyable worst movie-maker. A walking dead sequel to Ed Wood’s […]

Apr, 14

Band Waggon *** (1939, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Pat Kirkwood, Jack Hylton, Moore Marriott) – Classic Movie Review 5170

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1939 British musical comedy brings ‘Big-Hearted’ Arthur Askey and Richard ‘Stinker’ Murdoch’s hit BBC wireless programme (radio show) to the screen with the breezy performances intact and a sparky plot not a […]

Mar, 16

The Ghost Train **** (1941, Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Morland Graham, Herbert Lomas, Linden Travers, George Merritt) – Classic Movie Review 5162

Ten years on in 1941, director Walter Forde gets to remake his own great 1931 comedy movie success The Ghost Train, based on playwright Arnold Ridley’s vintage stage play, now polished up as a vehicle […]

Mar, 15

Twixt *** (2011, Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Joanne Whalley, Bruce Dern, Ben Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 4734

Writer / producer/ director Francis Ford Coppola’s teasingly nightmarish 2011 experimental horror thriller stars Val Kilmer as Hall Baltimore a-down-on-his-luck writer who specializes in novels based on witch hunting, and Elle Fanning as young girl Virginia or […]

Jan, 02

Scrooge *** (1935, Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Athene Seyler, Oscar Asche, Barbara Everest, Maurice Evans, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh, Marie Ney, C V France) – Classic Movie Review 4,809

Seymour Hicks co-writes the screenplay and plays the old Victorian grouch Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1935 British film version of Charles Dickens’s beloved novel A Christmas Carol. British actor-manager Seymour Hicks co-writes the screenplay and […]

Dec, 23

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