Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Van Helsing"

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The Cannonball Run *** (1981, Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6581

The ever-smiling, good-natured Burt Reynolds stars as J J McClure and Dom DeLuise plays his tubby sidekick Victor, as the duo take part in a daft, non-legal trans-America car chase in director Hal Needham’s madcap 1981 […]

Jan, 19

Brides of Dracula ***½ (1960, Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, Mona Washbourne) – Classic Movie Review 2,942

Peter Cushing returns as vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing in Hammer Films’ 1960 horror film Brides of Dracula, Terence Fisher’s first sequel to the 1958 Dracula, but David Peel replaces Christopher Lee as chief vampire […]

Oct, 02

Dracula AD 1972 ** (1972, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Marsha Hunt, Christopher Neame, Caroline Munro, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 2,856

Hammer Films’ misguided and lame-brained effort to modernise the Dracula tale to the supposedly still swinging London of the early Seventies fails on nearly every count. The 1972 British horror film Dracula AD 1972 is […]

Aug, 28

The Satanic Rites of Dracula ** (1973, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Coles, William Franklyn, Freddie Jones, Joanna Lumley) – Classic Movie Review 2,855

After the flop of Dracula AD 1972, Hammer Films try for another misguided update of the Dracula legend, and flop all over again in the eighth film in their Dracula series. The final Hammer film […]

Aug, 28

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

Bram Stoker’s Dracula **** (1992, Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins) – Classic Movie Review 244

Francis Coppola’s beautifully produced 1992 version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel is luxurious, sensual and richly enjoyable, though it has many faults and maybe we expected a greater movie from this greatest of all directors. […]

Sep, 16

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