Derek Winnert

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ***** (1984, Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Philip Stone, Rosan Seth) – Classic Movie Review 3077

Master entertainer Steven Spielberg piles up the breakneck thrills and spills in this exhilarating 1984 first sequel (or rather prequel) to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The story by George Lucas throws in every […]

Nov, 22

The Witches ** (1966, Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 3068

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1966 horror movie is a typical Hammer Films outing into the territory of black magic, the occult, voodoo and witchcraft. It features two effective performances – from a rather film-starry Joan Fontaine […]

Nov, 17

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ** (1974, Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, Shih Szu, John Forbes-Robertson, Robin Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 2.857

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is a tolerable experience, but the mix of Michael Carreras’s British Hammer horror and Hong Kong film producer Run Run Shaw’s kung fu is uneasy, to say the […]

Aug, 28

The Haunted Palace *** (1963, Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2849

Director Roger Corman’s fine 1963 chiller once again stars Vincent Price in the fourth in Corman’s cycle of eight films featuring connections with Edgar Allan Poe stories, released by American International Pictures. This time Price […]

Aug, 25

The Masque of the Red Death **** (1964, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, Patrick Magee, Nigel Green) – Classic Movie Review 2847

Director Roger Corman’s highly stylish and imaginatively achieved 1964 horror movie is his seventh adaptation of an 1842 Edgar Allan Poe short story (with another, Hop-Frog, as a sub-plot). A second sub-plot comes from Torture by Hope […]

Aug, 23

The House that Dripped Blood *** (1971, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, Joanna Lumley, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2842

Debut film director Peter Duffell’s effective 1971 four-segment Amicus compendium chiller, set around a murderous mansion, is written with knowing glee by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Denholm Elliott lead […]

Aug, 23

Owd Bob [To the Victor] **** (1937, Will Fyffe, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 2800

Director Robert Stevenson’s sweet, lovingly crafted 1937 film drama stars Will Fyffe as an old Scots farmer called Adam McAdam who has a sheepdog by the name of Black Wull, which is alleged to be […]

Aug, 13

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