Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gothic horror"

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The Mask of Satan [La maschera del demonio] [Black Sunday] **** (1960, Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi) – Classic Movie Review 3875

Mario Bava’s powerful 1960 movie exercise in Gothic horror The Mask of Satan [Black Sunday] is now hailed as one of the greatest horror masterpieces of Italian film. Tim Burton said it is his favourite […]

Jun, 16

Count Dracula [Nachts, Wenn Dracula Erwacht] *** (1970, Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm) – Classic Movie Review 3107

In co-writer/director Jesús (Jess) Franco’s creepy 1970 Spanish horror thriller, a weary old Count Dracula finds the blood of young maidens that he needs to be young again. Christopher Lee is once again chillingly cool […]

Nov, 28

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

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter *** (1974, Horst Janson, Caroline Munro, John Carson, Ian Hendry, Shane Briant, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 2834

Co-producer/writer/director Brian Clemens’s 1974 Hammer Films horror spoof stars German actor Horst Janson as the vampire hunter/swordsman/destroyer Captain Kronos, who, along with his hunchback assistant and a bumbling professor Hieronymos Grost (John Cater), ride into […]

Aug, 21

The Scars of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Anouska Hempel, Patrick Troughton, Michael Gwynn) – Classic Movie Review 2779

A rubber bat creaks down a wire and dribbles ketchup from the corner of its mouth onto a skeleton in an open coffin, and this fades in and out on an image of Christopher Lee. […]

Aug, 04

The Daughter of Dr Jekyll *** (1957, John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 2764

‘Blood-hungry spawn of the world’s most bestial fiend!’ Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1957 horror movie intriguingly merges the Jekyll and Hyde and werewolf stories. Gloria Talbott stars as Janet Smith in this tale of a […]

Aug, 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

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