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‘These are the TALONS of The Vampire Bat’ Director Frank Strayer’s deliciously dated 1933 horror movie stars Lionel Atwill as Dr Otto von Niemann, a batty scientist who sends his hapless helpers Ruth Bertin (Fay […]
In 1933 German meister director Fritz Lang brings back his evil crime baron Dr Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) from his 1922 silent classic Doctor Mabuse the Gambler [Dr Mabuse, King of Crime] and creates a meisterwerk. It […]
Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylish 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a hoodlum, two tough guys involved in […]
Alastair Sim stars in director Guy Hamilton’s 1954 British film An Inspector Calls based on the play by J B Priestley and written for the screen by Desmond Davis. As so often, an ideally cast […]
Director Philip Kaufman’s 2004 thriller promises much but must count as a big disappointment. A serial killer is at work in San Francisco and all the victims are former lovers of tough but vulnerable newly-promoted […]
Director Tod Browning’s astute 1935 horror thriller has an engaging spoofy, parodic tone and a trick ending. A succulent Lionel Barrymore entertains as the eminent demonology expert Professor Zelin and the invaluable Bela Lugosi is on […]
American International Pictures assembles a grand, first-class international cast headed by Jason Robards Jnr, Herbert Lom, Lilli Palmer, Adolfo Celi, Michael Dunn, Christine Kaufmann and Maria Perschy for director Gordon Hessler’s bloody, well-made 1971 horror […]