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Long Time Dead ** (2002, Joe Absolom, Tom Bell, Lara Belmont, Lukas Haas) – Classic Movie Review 4791

Though burdened with a heavy cargo of silliness, co-storywriter/director Marcus Adams’s 2002 British horror chiller is often quite skilful and creepy. Joe Absolom, Tom Bell, Lara Belmont and America’s Lukas Haas are among those in deadly […]

Dec, 17

The Vengeance of She ** (1968, Olinka Berova, John Richardson, Edward Judd, Colin Blakely, Derek Godfrey, Noel Willman, André Morell, Jill Melford, George Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 4455

Director Cliff Owen’s 1968 adventure sequel stars Olinka Berova as beautiful young European girl Carol, who is seemingly possessed by the spirit of the long-gone Queen Ayesha of Kuma (She Who Must Be Obeyed), in […]

Oct, 03

Poltergeist *** (2015, Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Jared Harris) – Movie Review

Director Gil Kenan reboots, reimagines and brings up to date Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic tale about a family whose new suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. It’s a sign of the times that in […]

May, 19

The She-Creature ** (1956, Marla English, Chester Morris, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Ron Randell) – Classic Movie Review 2484

Director Edward L Cahn’s black-and-white 1956 low-budget horror monster movie The She-Creature stars Marla English and Tom Conway in the first of two films he directed with these stars, followed by Voodoo Woman in 1957. […]

May, 15

The Tempest *** (1979, dir Derek Jarman) – Classic Movie Review 1312

‘We are such stuff. As dreams are made on, and our little life. Is rounded with a sleep.’ – Prospero. Director Derek Jarman’s imaginative and entertaining 1979 unconventional reimagining of William Shakespeare play for the […]

Jun, 09

Spirited Away (2001, dir Hayao Miyazaki) – Classic Film Review 1184

Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 Japanese animation focuses on Chihiro (voice of Rumi Horagi), a scared but feisty little 10-year-old girl, who is trapped in a world of witches and spirits, and gods and monsters, when her […]

May, 07

Don’t Look Now ***** (1973, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Leopoldo Trieste) – Classic Movie Review 681

The dazzling, chilling and eerily disturbing 1973 pyschic chiller Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s story, is easily esteemed British director Nicolas Roeg’s most popular and successfully realised film. A perfectly paired Julie […]

Jan, 12

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