Derek Winnert

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No Way to Treat a Lady **** (1968, Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 2734

Lee Remick plays Kate Palmer, Segal’s bewildered gentile girlfriend, who unfortunately attracts a serial killer (Rod Steiger)’s evil attentions, in director Jack Smight’s tense, clever and extremely creepy 1968 black comedy thriller. Remick had everything […]

Jul, 24

The Legend of Barney Thomson ** (2015, Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, Tom Courtenay, Ashley Jensen, James Cosmo) – Movie Review

In his directing debut, Robert Carlyle is struggling both as actor and director as Barney Thomson, a boring Glasgow barber who reluctantly finds he becomes a serial killer. Carlyle’s odd mix of kindly and terrifying gets a thorough […]

Jul, 23

Twisted * (2004, Ashley Judd, Andy Garcia, Samuel L Jackson, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 2727

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 […]

Jul, 22

Phantom of the Rue Morgue *** (1954, Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 2684

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1954 horror movie stars Karl Malden, who takes on the old Bela Lugosi role in Warner Bros’ engagingly shambolic rejig of the 1932 Murders in the Rue Morgue, based on Edgar Allan […]

Jul, 10

The Lodger [The Phantom Fiend] *** (1932, Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A W Baskcomb, Barbara Everest, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 2640

Re-creating his role from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent classic, Ivor Novello plays a mysterious stranger who may, or may not, be a Jack the Ripper-style serial killer, in the 1932 British film The Lodger. Ivor […]

Jun, 26

The Lodger **** (1944, Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood) – Classic Movie Review 2639

Director John Brahm’s thrilling 1944 American Victorian melodrama horror film The Lodger provides a wonderful role for Laird Cregar, who is superb as Mr Slade, the mysterious stranger who finds lodgings in London’s Whitechapel district […]

Jun, 25

Ted Bundy [Bundy] ** (2002, Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Julianna McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 2571

Co-writer/director Matthew Bright’s chilling 2002 docu-drama biopic of the prolific and notorious serial sex killer whose horrific crimes shocked 1970s America is exploitative and graphically nasty. Michael Reilly Burke stars as Ted Bundy and Boti […]

Jun, 08

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