Derek Winnert

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The White Buffalo *** (1977, Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman, John Carradine, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 7105

Director J Lee Thompson’s intriguingly bizarre 1977 symbolic Western The White Buffalo stars Charles Bronson in one of his better roles as the haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok, who is stalking a murderous white buffalo […]

May, 30

Jacob’s Ladder ***½ (1990, Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 5197

Director Adrian Lyne’s eerie, eye-catching 1990 horror movie finds Tim Robbins climbing the ladder to stardom in a stalwart performance as the divorced, traumatised Vietnam vet, New York postal worker Jacob Singer, who is troubled by […]

Mar, 25

A Nightmare on Elm Street ** (2010, Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Clancy Brown, Katie Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 4633

Director Samuel Bayer’s 2010 horror thriller brings back Mr Pizza Face Freddy Krueger – and this time Jackie Earle Haley provides the ideal face in this slick but pointless re-imagining of Wes Craven’s 1984 seminal horror movie A […]

Nov, 10

A Nightmare on Elm Street **** (1984, Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Ronee Blakley) – Classic Movie Review 626

Wisecracking, dream-stalking, hacking slasher Freddy Krueger makes his terrifying screen début in 1984, slicing and dicing his way through teenagers’ nightmares in a welter of gags and gore, in A Nightmare on Elm Street. Robert […]

Jan, 04

Dead of Night ***** (1945, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes) – Classic Movie Review 399

‘Suitable only for adults’, according to the poster, the famous vintage 1945 British chiller Dead of Night about a man’s fear of impending doom is satisfying, polished and still truly creepy. The hero’s half-remembered recurring […]

Nov, 13

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