Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "vampire"

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night **** (2014, Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Dominic Rains) – Movie Review

Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour‘s ultra-confident, uber-astonishing feature debut vampire movie (based on her 2011 short film) is hardly a vampire movie at all. It’s a teasing, genre-bending romantic horror thriller, with no real horror or […]

May, 20

Irma Vep **** (1996, Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard) – Classic Movie Review 2476

Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as a French film director who takes Hong Kong action star Maggie Cheung (playing herself) to be his sexy, rubber-suited super-villainess Irma Vep (an anagram of vampire) in his remake of Louis […]

May, 12

Van Helsing *** (2004, Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 2108

Having successfully resurrected The Mummy, writer-director Stephen Sommers now turns his hand in 2004 to the other Universal horror icons. So, this time, Dracula meets the Frankenstein’s Monster (Shuler Hensley) and the Wolf Man, as […]

Jan, 24

Blood Ties *** (1991, Patrick Bauchau, Jason London, Harley Venton) – Classic Movie Review 1826

Producer-director Jim McBride’s impressive, eye-catching 1991 horror thriller revitalises and modernises the vampire legend. In Richard Alan Shapiro’s nifty screenplay, fun-loving modern-day vampires are undead and living in Long Beach in LA, and troubled only […]

Nov, 10

The Lost Boys **** (1987, Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Alex Winter) – Classic Movie Review 1823

Sparky, imaginative, eye-catching and often very funny, director Joel Schumacher’s exuberant 1987 vampire teen horror movie is an enduring pleasure as a treasured Eighties relic. It revived the vampire film, giving it a cool, sexy spin for […]

Nov, 09

Queen of the Damned *** (2002, Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah) – Classic Movie Review 1787

Director Michael Rymer’s richly enjoyable 2002 horror thriller stars Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, taking over from Tom Cruise in this sequel to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). Lestat arises from […]

Oct, 29

The Little Vampire *** (2000, Jonathan Lipnicki, Rollo Weeks, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1771

A married couple called the Thompsons (Tommy Hinkley, Pamela Gidley) move with their nine-year-old lad Tony (Jonathan Lipnicki) to the Scottish Highlands, where the boy starts dreaming about vampires. Then at first he is soon […]

Oct, 22

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