Derek Winnert

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High Spirits ** (1988, Peter O’Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly d’Angelo, Jennifer Tilly, Liam Neeson, Peter Gallagher, Ray McAnally) – Classic Movie Review 3360

High Spirits is a gleeful chunk of Irish blarney from the usually heavyweight writer-director Neil Jordan. The critical success of Jordan’s early movies led him from Ireland to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits and […]

Feb, 14

And Now the Screaming Starts! *** (1973, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 3095

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1973 British chiller is a bizarre, gruesome and handsome-looking Amicus horror tale about a family curse in which a disembodied hand comes through a picture on a wall and avenges the […]

Nov, 25

Tales of Terror *** (1962, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage) – Classic Movie Review 2848

Vincent Price stars in three Edgar Allan Poe tales, retold by director Roger Corman in 1962 in his own stylish, baroque gothic horror way. Price also introduced all three sequences, which took just three weeks to film. It […]

Aug, 24

Poltergeist *** (2015, Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Jared Harris) – Movie Review

Director Gil Kenan reboots, reimagines and brings up to date Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic tale about a family whose new suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. It’s a sign of the times that in […]

May, 19

Poltergeist **** (1982, JoBeth Williams, Craig T Nelson, Heather O’Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein) – Classic Movie Review 2469

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre director Tobe Hooper’s spirited, extremely intense 1982 horror movie Poltergeist is the first and best of the three original Eighties Poltergeist ghost stories. It is co-written and co-produced by Steven […]

May, 10

The Phantom **** (1996, Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar, Patrick McGoohan, Casey Siemaszko) – Classic Movie Review 2319

Lee Falk’s Thirties comic-strip is in capable hands here in 1996 with Billy Zane donning the zany purple tights and zanier tall-hair wig as Kit Walker, alias The Phantom, The Ghost Who Walks, Avenges, Rights […]

Mar, 27

The Haunting **** (1963, Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn) – Classic Movie Review 2282

Director Robert Wise’s smooth and seamless classic 1963 chiller stars Richard Johnson, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn and Julie Harris. In the famous story, four people stay over at an evil dark old New England mansion where […]

Mar, 18

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