Derek Winnert

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From Dusk Till Dawn **** (1996, Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 142

Lustily made in 1996 by director Robert Rodriguez, with a typically vibrant screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, this highly popular cult horror thriller is a lot of good, disreputable fun, though it’s quite crudely done and very […]

Aug, 09

Dracula [Horror of Dracula] ***** (1958, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling) – Classic Movie Review 90

Hammer Films adds the final touches to its repertoire – blood and sex – with a bevvy of beauties being bitten to orgasmic screams after opening their windows to the Count, in the 1958 British […]

Jul, 25

Dracula ***** (1931, Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye) – Classic Movie Review 89

Tod Browning’s 1931 horror film Dracula is one of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies. Bela Lugosi re-creates his theatre role magnificently, with great eerie, other-worldly authority.  One of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies, director Tod […]

Jul, 25

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles ***** (1994, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Stephen Rea, Kirsten Dunst, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 88

Director Neil Jordan’s commanding, all-embracing 1994 romantic vampire movie Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s 1976 bestselling novel, is a dark, swirling homoerotic meditation on love, death and the hereafter. Along with Dracula […]

Jul, 25

The Hunger ***** (1983, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon) – Classic Movie Review 87

Based on the 1981 novel by Whitley Strieber, this enchanting 1983 erotic vampire movie is one of cinema’s most crucial of its perennially popular kind. It is perhaps even more remarkable for its iconic characters […]

Jul, 24

Byzantium *** (2012, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Caleb Landry Jones, Johnny Lee Miller, Tom Hollander, Daniel Mays) – Movie Review

Vampires again – good! – and from Neil Jordan, the director of Interview with the Vampire  – good! –  but oh so very serious – bad! Byzantium is lovingly done but it’s not really very […]

May, 30

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