Derek Winnert

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers *** (1988, Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Michael Pataki, Beau Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4243

Director Dwight H Little’s 1988 fourth episode in the long-running slasher franchise started by John Carpenter with Halloween way back in 1978, marks a properly scary return to the plot, theme and characters of that 1978 […]

Aug, 26

Halloween: Resurrection * (2002, Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks, Brad Loree) – Classic Movie Review 4242

Director Rick Rosenthal’s 2002 eighth Halloween movie brings Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie Strode (if only briefly) and reunites her with her director on Halloween 2 (1981). This time Brad Loree plays the unstoppable […]

Aug, 26

Halloween II [Halloween 2] ** (1981, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Dick Warlock, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest) – Classic Movie Review 4240

The Halloween killer again terrorises the feisty Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the hospital where she has been taken immediately after part one, Halloween (1978). Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1981 horror movie gets more mileage from the […]

Aug, 26

Freddy Vs. Jason *** (2003, Jason Ritter, Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena, Kelly Rowland, Chris Marquette) – Classic Movie Review 4220

Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street sets out to kill off the usual crop of terrified teenagers while he takes on maniac Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) from Friday the 13th in […]

Aug, 23

Le Boucher [The Butcher] ***** (1970, Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia) – Classic Movie Review 4197

Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s tantalizing, mesmerizing 1970 French thriller Le Boucher [The Butcher] is absolutely superb, a miniaturist masterpiece of tension, atmosphere and character. Chabrol’s then wife Stéphane Audran stars as a repressed French provincial small-town […]

Aug, 19

Saw V ** (2008, Scott Patterson, Costas Mandylor, Tobin Bell, Betsy Russell, Mark Rolston, Joris Jarsky) – Classic Movie Review 4015

Director David Hackl’s twisted, morbid 2008 fourth sequel of the revoltingly sick horror thriller series is masterminded by the scenic designer of the previous three movies. And you could say he does make a slick, professional […]

Jul, 14

Targets ****½ (1968, Boris Karloff, Tim O’Kelly, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis, Peter Bogdanovich) – Classic Movie Review 3874

Writer-director Peter Bogdanovich’s controversial 1968 film début hit hard in its day and still packs a punch, remaining a seriously relevant thriller. It promised a great future for Bogdanovich, which, for a while in the […]

Jun, 16

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