Derek Winnert

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters * (2019, Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown) – Movie Review

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) is a boring, plot-free filler film between Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2020). Admittedly the 131 minutes move swiftly and painlessly by in a slick, professional package. It has one […]

Jun, 01

Reptilicus * (1961, Carl Ottosen, Ann Smymer, Bent Mejding, Asbjørn Andersen, Povl Wøldike) – Classic Movie Review 8348

Director Sidney W Pink’s 1961 low-budget monster movie Reptilicus is a pretty daft and badly done sci-fi horror action movie, in which part of a prehistoric monster’s frozen tail is discovered by copper miners and […]

Apr, 09

Grizzly ** (1976, Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel) – Classic Movie Review 8304

Here we go with another urban dweller’s holiday nightmare as this time a monster bear attacks the vacationers at a US national park. As the park ranger and his posse try to stop the bear’s […]

Mar, 28

It’s Alive II [It Lives Again] *** (1978, Frederic Forrest, Kathleen Lloyd, John P Ryan, Andrew Duggan) – Classic Movie Review 8295

There are three mutant toddlers this time in director Larry Cohen’s 1978 It’s Alive II [It Lives Again], the goodish, dark-toned, serious-minded horror sequel to his 1974 hit It’s Alive, in which Frank Davies (again […]

Mar, 25

Destroy All Monsters [Kaijû Sôshingeki] *** (1968, Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi) – Classic Movie Review 8267

Co-writer/ director Ishirô Honda’s amusing 1968 Japanese Sci-Fi horror movie Destroy All Monsters [Kaijû Sôshingeki] has plenty of action and of course lots of monsters but little plot, and it gains an extra star for […]

Mar, 19

The Monster of Piedras Blancas ** (1959, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 8093

Director Irvin Berwick’s 1959 horror movie The Monster of Piedras Blancas stars Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis and John Harmon. In writer H Haile Chace’s screenplay, a newly widowed lighthouse keeper called Sturges (Harmon) puts out […]

Feb, 05

Q – The Winged Serpent [Q] **** (1982, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 8071

Writer-director Larry Cohen’s 1982 Q – The Winged Serpent [or just plain Q] is a hugely enjoyable, if raggedly made, cult horror thriller, often imaginatively written and directed. It is by turns scary, funny and […]

Jan, 28

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