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The Blood Beast Terror * (1968, Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 2899

Director Vernon Sewell’s 1967 mad scientist horror movie made for Britain’s Tigon studios is all about Victorian insect scientist Dr Carl Mallinger (Robert Flemyng), who creates a creature while working with genetics.  The canny creature […]

Sep, 11

Voodoo Woman ** (1957, Tom Conway, Marla English, Mike Connors, Lance Fuller, Mary Ellen Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 2483

Somewhere in the jungle, a mad scientist, Dr Roland Gerard (an aged and unengaged Tom Conway), is determined to create the perfect human being. Using a combination of science and black voodoo, he creates a […]

May, 14

Young Frankenstein ***** (1974, Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 1,939

Mel Brooks’s deservedly much-loved 1974 horror comedy film masterpiece Young Frankenstein mixes homage and spoof to perfection. Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman are beyond brilliant. Director Mel Brooks’s deservedly much-loved horror comedy masterpiece Young […]

Dec, 09

Back to the Future Part III **** (1990, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 1935

For the final Back to the Future film of the trilogy in 1990, screenwriter Bob Gale comes up with the appealing idea to send Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) back to 1885. Marty has to […]

Dec, 08

Back to the Future ***** (1985, Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1933

The popular Family Ties (1982-1989) TV star Michael J Fox vrooms to big screen fame as Marty McFly, a 1985 teenager accidentally whisked back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean time-machine car, invented by his […]

Dec, 08

The Mouse That Roared **** (1959, Peter Sellers, Leo McKern, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 1646

Director Jack Arnold’s delightful, often hilarious British 1959 satirical comedy showcases three tailor-made roles for Peter Sellers – the dotty Grand Duchess Gloriana XII of Grand Fenwick, the peace-minded, resourceful general Tully Bascombe and the tricky […]

Sep, 07

Carry On Screaming **** (1966, Harry H Corbett, Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Fenella Fielding, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Angela Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1132

Carry On Screaming (1966) is one of everybody’s favourite Carry On films. Harry H Corbett dons a cape and deerstalker as Detective Sergeant Bung and Fenella Fielding delights as vamping vampire Valeria Watt (‘Do you […]

Apr, 21

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