Derek Winnert

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Dance of the Vampires [The Fearless Vampire Killers] **** (1967, Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Ferdy Mayne, Sharon Tate, Iain Quarrier) – Classic Movie Review 1739

This splendidly silly but gloriously witty and exceptionally good-looking 1967 English vampire spoof film Dance of the Vampires finds the right film-maker in co-writer/director Roman Polanski. The film-maker casts himself and his future wife Sharon […]

Oct, 03

Dracula: Dead and Loving It *** (1995, Leslie Nielsen, Mel Brooks, Peter MacNicol, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 1732

Producer/co-writer/director Mel Brooks revisits one of his finest hours – the 1974 Young Frankenstein for a belated companion piece that has enough good humour and amusing jokes for tolerant Brooks aficionados to call this a […]

Oct, 02

Dracula 2000 ** (2000, Gerard Butler, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 1731

Christopher Plummer brings a touch of class to this modern-day vampire flick as Abraham Van Helsing, who keeps Dracula (Gerard Butler) in a coffin that’s stolen by gang of thieves, who break into a chamber expecting […]

Oct, 02

Dracula **** (1979, Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Kate Nelligan) – Classic Movie Review 1729

‘It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.’ Director John Badham’s richly enjoyable 1979 horror movie is a lavish, beautiful […]

Oct, 02

Dracula Untold ** (2014, Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Charles Dance, Paul Kaye) – Movie Review

Director Gary Shore’s Dracula movie Dracula Untold (2014) is a mundane and uninspired attempt to revive the threadbare formula, with a manly, workmanlike turn by Luke Evans as an action superhero type Vlad Tepes the Impaler and […]

Oct, 01

The Addiction **** (1995, Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra) – Classic Movie Review 1600

  Director Abel Ferrara’s rousing, moody, intelligent 1995 horror movie is a vampire parable, set in the 1930s. Lili Taylor is on scalding form as philosophy doctoral student Kathleen Conklin, who’s bitten by a female […]

Aug, 28

Vampires: Los Muertos (2002, Jon Bon Jovi ) – Classic Film Review 1071

Jon Bon Jovi stars as  freelance vampire hunter and slayer Derek Bliss, who vows to take revenge on the evil undead renegade responsible for slaying a group of monks and links up with a priest, […]

Apr, 08

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