Derek Winnert

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Fangs * (2002, Corbin Bernsen, Tracy Nelson, Whip Hubley) – Classic Movie Review 6393

Fangs ain’t what they used to be. Director Kelly Sandefur’s 2002 feature is a laughably silly horror movie, in which a small town’s residents fight genetically modified killer bats. It stars Whip Hubley, Tracy Nelson […]

Dec, 11

Bats * (1999, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton) – Classic Movie Review 5114

Dina Meyer stars as zoologist Dr Sheila Casper, who is summoned to the Texas town of Gallup, where she teams up with the surprisingly kindly sheriff Emmett Kinsey (Lou Diamond Phillips) after a plague of […]

Mar, 06

The Batman *** (1943, Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5109

Director Lambert Hillyer’s wartime 1943 vintage 15-part film serial The Batman is exceptionally lively and enjoyable. It is notable as the first ever screen appearance of the Caped Crusader, giving Lewis Wilson the honour of […]

Mar, 06

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls ½ (1995, Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi, Bob Gunton, Sophie Okonedo, Tommy Davidson) – Classic Movie Review 4119

Jim Carrey’s pet detective Ace Ventura heads for the hills to find an abducted sacred white bat and keep the peace between African tribes, in writer-director Steve Oedekerk’s defiantly non-PC, non-funny 1995 sequel. Exuberant but repellent, this […]

Aug, 02

The Devil Bat ** (1940, Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Guy Usher) – Classic Movie Review 3735

Director Jean Yarbrough’s 1940 horror movie has the right star in horror icon Bela Lugosi, who does his over-ripe batty doctor act yet again as avenging scientist Dr Paul Carruthers, understandably bitter after being betrayed by […]

May, 22

The Bat Whispers *** (1930, Chester Morris, Una Merkel, Maude Eburne, Spencer Charters) – Classic Movie Review 3592

Writer-director Roland West’s 1930 film version of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s spooky mansion stage chiller play The Bat is inevitably creaky but suitably creepy and satisfyingly funny, as a master arch criminal called The Bat steals a necklace […]

Apr, 19

The Bat *** (1959, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 3591

The right stars in Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead crank up writer-director Crane Wilbur’s creaky 1959 version of the maniac-in-the-mansion stage chiller play The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Price plays Dr Malcolm Wells. Moorehead plays […]

Apr, 19

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