Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "The Creature"

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Night of the Blood Beast * (1958, Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer, Ed Nelson, Steve Dunlap, Georgianna Carter, Tyler McVey) – Classic Movie Review 4953

Director Bernard L Kowalski’s low-budget, black and white 1958 sci-fi horror movie tells the sorry tale of a hapless team of scientists, who are stalked by an alien Creature. An astronaut Steve Dunlap (John Baer) is killed on […]

Jan, 28

Swamp Thing *** (1982, Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise) – Classic Movie Review 2871

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1982 cult horror comic movie, based on Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson‘s D C Comic book characters, is reasonably engaging and amusing. Ray Wise stars as a research scientist Dr Alec Holland, […]

Aug, 31

Frankenstein *½ (1994, Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Briers, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 2034

Kenneth Branagh comes a cropper as both actor and director of this plush band ambitious but stodgy and unconvincing 1994 version of Mary Shelley’s classic horror tale that just seems to be going through the […]

Jan, 02

Revenge of the Creature *** (1955, John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva) – Classic Movie Review 1932

‘Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City!’ The 1955 monster movie Revenge of the Creature brings scientists back to the Amazon’s Black Lagoon, where the Gill Man (Ricou Browning/ Tom Hennesy) is captured and then transported […]

Dec, 07

The Abominable Snowman *** (1957, Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown) – Classic Movie Review 1,267

Writer Nigel Kneale turns his 1955 BBC TV play The Creature into the intriguing, intelligently written, decently acted 1957 Hammer horror film The Abominable Snowman, with Peter Cushing reprising his star TV role.  Writer Nigel […]

May, 31

The Bride of Frankenstein ***** (1935, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Una O’Connor, Valerie Hobson, Gavin Gordon, Dwight Frye, Douglas Walton, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 32

Director James Whale’s 1935 sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein arguably turned out to be even better than the original, and confidently stakes its claim to being THE classic horror film of all time. Ernest Thesiger etches […]

Jul, 08

Frankenstein ***** (1931, Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 31

Made in 1931, this is still the archetypal horror film of all time, retaining its startling power to disturb and delight, and it is also high among the cinema’s most glorious and imaginative fairy-tales. The Baron […]

Jul, 08

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