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Return of the Ape Man *** (1944, Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 3749

Director Philip Rosen’s 1944 Monogram studios horror movie is an entertaining follow-up to 1943’s The Ape Man, in which scientists Professor Dexter (Bela Lugosi) and Professor John Gilmore (John Carradine) go on an Arctic expedition and try to […]

May, 23

The Devil Bat ** (1940, Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Guy Usher) – Classic Movie Review 3735

Director Jean Yarbrough’s 1940 horror movie has the right star in horror icon Bela Lugosi, who does his over-ripe batty doctor act yet again as avenging scientist Dr Paul Carruthers, understandably bitter after being betrayed by […]

May, 22

Creature with the Atom Brain ** (1955, Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S John Launer, Gregory Gaye, Michael Granger) – Classic Movie Review 3728

Richard Denning stars as police doctor Chet Walker, who uncovers atomic-powered zombies, in the jaw-droppingly bizarre 1955 crime, sci-fi horror film Creature with the Atom Brain.  Richard Denning stars as police doctor Dr Chet Walker, […]

May, 21

The Black Hole *** (1979, Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Tom McLoughlin) – Classic Movie Review 3711

The Walt Disney Studio, under producer Ron Miller, commendably trying for something different in 1979, came up with director Gary Nelson’s extremely good-looking but rather poorly conceived sci-fi adventure about a group of American researchers […]

May, 15

Lost in Space *** (1998, Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham, Mimi Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 3700

The fondly remembered Irwin Allen 1965-68 family sci-fi TV series lives again in director Stephen Hopkins’s daft but likeable mega-budget ($90million) 1998 big-screen re-creation. A cast of actors rather than stars take the parts of the […]

May, 12

X – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes *** (1963, Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J Stone, Don Rickles, John Hoyt, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 3639

Director Roger Corman’s 1963 heated hybrid of horror and sci-fi stars Ray Milland as a world-renowned scientist, who tries out his all-seeing serum to improve the capacity of the human eye and uses his special […]

May, 01

Darkman II: The Return of Durant **½ (1995, Larry Drake, Arnold Vosloo, Kim Delaney) – Classic Movie Review 3486

Written by Steven McKay, this is an entertaining 1995 Grand Guignol horror comic sequel from director Bradford May, taking over from part one’s Sam Raimi, the director of Darkman (1990), who stays on as co-producer only. […]

Mar, 20

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