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High-Ballin’ ** (1978, Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver, Chris Wiggins) – Classic Movie Review 9002

Director Peter Carter’s uninspired, over-familiar-seeming 1978 action adventure High-Ballin’ stars Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed (from Smokey and the Bandit) and Helen Shaver as truckers fighting off the bad guys who want to put them out […]

Oct, 21

Creepshow 2 *** (1987, George Kennedy, Lois Chiles, Domenick John) – Classic Movie Review 8383

Director Michael Gornick’s 1987 horror anthology sequel Creepshow 2 has three more Stephen King EC Comics-inspired stories adapted in the screenplay by George A Romero, the director of the first Creepshow (1982), and this time […]

Apr, 20

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre **** (1974, Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Gunnar Hansen) – Classic Movie Review 5980

Director Tobe Hooper’s scintillating 1974 film début proper (following 1969’s experimental Eggshells) ranks as one of the most shocking and powerful horror films ever made and is a horror movie game changer. Based on the true […]

Aug, 27

The Forsaken *** (2001, Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko, Johnathon Schaech, Simon Rex, Carrie Snodgress) – Classic Movie Review 4361

Writer-director J S Cardone’s pacy, realistic, edge-of-seat but plenty gory 2001 horror movie stars the right young cast in Kerr Smith, Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko and Johnathon Schaech. A perfectly cast Schaech plays a bloodsucker who roams America’s desert […]

Sep, 13

Knife in the Water [Nóz w wodzie] **** (1962, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz) – Classic Movie Review 3946

Co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s 1962 Polish first feature film tells of a bored, aging husband and wife couple, Andrjez and Krystyna (Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka) whose bourgeois conformism is shaken up by a hitch-hiking beatnik young man (Zygmunt […]

Jun, 29

Wild Strawberries [Smultronstället] ***** (1957, Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin) – Classic Movie Review 2933

Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 world cinema classic traces the spiritual journey of an aged, irascible professor (Victor Sjöström) uncovering his past and present emotional frailties while on a road trip from his home in […]

Sep, 29

Kiss Me Deadly **** (1955, Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 2209

Producer-director Robert Aldrich’s 1955 film noir crime movie stars Ralph Meeker, who is on scalding form as Mickey Spillane’s private detective hero Mike Hammer. This first-rate Aldrich thriller is a hugely imaginative, ahead-of-its-time study in paranoia. […]

Feb, 23

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