Derek Winnert

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Beast of Blood ** (1970, John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall, Eddie Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 7657

‘See Human Heads Transplanted!’ ‘See natives eaten alive by giant vultures!’ Directed Eddie Romero’s low-budget (between $125,000 and $200,000) 1970 Filipino horror film Beast of Blood [released in the UK as Blood Devils] is the sequel to The Mad Doctor […]

Oct, 10

From the Earth to the Moon * (1958, Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Henry Daniell, Carl Esmond, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7413

Director Byron Haskin’s 1958 From the Earth to the Moon is a pathetic attempt to film the Jules Verne sci-fi fantasy adventure novels De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and Autour de la Lune […]

Aug, 07

The Titan *** (2018, Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review 

Director Lennart Ruff’s 2018 Sci-Fi thriller The Titan is interesting, intriguing, a little bit different and really rather well done. The screenplay by Max Hurwitz and story by Arash Amel are intelligent and literate. The premise, characters and dialogue are all quite strong, involving […]

Apr, 17

Blood of the Vampire *** (1958, Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball, Victor Maddern, Andrew Faulds) – Classic Movie Review 6266

Director Henry Cass’s lusty 1958 British horror movie stars Donald Wolfit as the anaemic mad scientist Dr Callistratus, who uses criminal inmates of his 1880 Transylvania insane asylum for his blood-typing research and transfusion experiments to replenish […]

Nov, 18

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) **** (2009, Dieter Laser, Ashley C Williams, Ashlynn Yennie) – Classic Movie Review 6103

Brace yourselves, folks, for this truly, madly, deeply shocking 2009 Dutch horror thriller, made with great flair by director Tom Six, who keeps the suspense, tension and terror on the boil throughout. It is horrible, […]

Oct, 17

Dr Phibes Rises Again *** (1972, Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing, Beryl Reid, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 6,003

Co-writer/ director Robert Fuest’s 1972 kitsch, theatrical and extravagant horror movie Dr Phibes Rises Again is the welcome sequel to The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971), bringing the great Vincent Price back on the campy rampage […]

Aug, 30

Our Man Flint *** (1966, James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Gila Golan) – Classic Movie Review 5923

Director Daniel Mann’s 1966 spy adventure stars smirking supercool James Coburn as quintessential Swinging Sixties American spy Derek Flint in this first of his series of send-up espionage thrillers (which surprisingly terminated abruptly after the […]

Aug, 16

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