Derek Winnert

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Moss Rose *** (1947, Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, Rhys Williams, George Zucco, Patricia Medina) – Classic Movie Review 8510

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1947 Moss Rose stars Victor Mature in a smooth, old-style murder melodrama, set in Hollywood’s usual idea of old foggy London, in which he plays Michael Drego, who is suspected of killing a […]

May, 28

Pretty Maids All in a Row *** (1971, Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 8495

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry produced and wrote the screenplay for director Roger Vadim’s weird but watchable 1971 black comedy-thriller Pretty Maids All in a Row, offering a strange-brew mélange of laughs, sex and violence. […]

May, 25

Shocker *** (1989, Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi, John Tesh, Cami Cooper, Heather Langenkamp) – Classic Movie Review 8458

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1989 horror thriller movie Shocker is an inventive, frightening film, with an eerie atmosphere, a truly evil villain and superb special effects. It stars Michael Murphy, Peter Berg and Mitch Pileggi. A […]

May, 11

The Frighteners *** (1996, Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson) – Classic Movie Review 8418

Director Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural black comedy horror thriller The Frighteners, in the style of Beetlejuice complete with a Danny Elfman score, is poundingly pacey, reasonably scary and original enough, but, when the brilliant special […]

May, 01

He Knows You’re Alone ** (1980, Don Scardino, Caitlin O’Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Lewis Arlt, James Rebhorn, Tom Hanks) – Classic Movie Review 8363

Director Armand Mastroianni’s 1980 low budget horror thriller He Knows You’re Alone is a cheap regulation slasher movie about the usual serial killer monster (Tom Rolfing) going after young women with a knife, as one […]

Apr, 15

Maniac Cop 2 *** (1990, Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner) – Classic Movie Review 8300

Director William Lustig’s and writer Larry Cohen’s 1990 Maniac Cop 2 is a cheaper-looking and even more exploitative-seeming sequel to their 1988 horror thriller Maniac Cop, with a welter of violence and bad black humour […]

Mar, 26

Maniac Cop *** (1988, Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon) – Classic Movie Review 8299

Larry Cohen writes and produces (though perhaps he should also have directed) director William Lustig’s cult film Maniac Cop, which tells an intriguing and involving tale about a brutal killer on the loose on the […]

Mar, 26

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