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Kenneth Branagh comes the most awful cropper as director-star of this appalling 1991 romantic fantasy neo noir mystery thriller that intends to tease playfully but ends up just being infuriating. Dead in the water, it was dead […]
Rosemary La Planche, the 1941 Miss America, stars as Nina, the daughter of Bela Lugosi’s now deceased vengeful inventor character Dr Paul Carruthers from 1940’s The Devil Bat. And this time a psychiatrist called Doctor Elliott […]
Producer-director John Boorman’s disturbing and chilling but thrilling 1972 adventure nightmare suspense thriller with a message is one of the key films of its era and an influential game-changer for this kind of story. It […]
Director Freddie Francis’s excellent 1964 psychological suspense thriller Nightmare stars the 25-year-old Jennie Linden as troubled young heiress Janet, a student at a private school. She is being brought up in the absence of her parents […]
Director Seth Holt’s 1971 British chiller is an imaginatively handled, intelligently written, menacing, above-average late Hammer horror movie, based by talented screen-writer Christopher Wicking on a lesser-known Bram Stoker novel, Jewel of the Seven Stars. The […]
Director Freddie Francis’s 1965 Amicus horror thriller stars Peter Cushing as a professor who wants to acquire the Marquis de Sade’s skull from an eccentric dealer (Patrick Wymark). Christopher Lee also stars as Cushing’s antiquarian […]
Writer-director Matthew Bright’s exploitative, really nasty 1996 revenge thriller stars Reese Witherspoon as abused juvenile delinquent teenager Vanessa Lutz, who is travelling to her grandmother’s trailer park home on the run from a social worker. […]