Derek Winnert

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The Vanishing *** (1993, Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock) – Classic Movie Review 8992

For his 1993 remake The Vanishing, director George Sluizer Hollywoodises his 1988 Dutch psychological horror thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos] and adds an extra female character (a spunky girlfriend for the hero) and a different ending. […]

Oct, 17

Death Line [Raw Meat] *** (1972, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 8945

Story-writer/ director Gary Sherman’s 1972 British horror movie Death Line [Raw Meat] stars Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney and Christopher Lee. It is classic Seventies guilty pleasure horror. It seems that a […]

Sep, 28

Macabre ** (1958, William Prince, Jim Backus, Christine White) – Classic Movie Review 5209

Producer-director William Castle’s 1958 movie is based on a 12-handed Mystery Writers of America novel The Marble Forest, though it is credited to one writer, Anthony Boucher (as Theo Durrant). The movie tells a dull, clumsy […]

Mar, 28

The Oblong Box *** (1969, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson, Hilary Dwyer, Peter Arne, Sally Geeson, Rupert Davies, Michael Balfour, Maxwell Shaw, Harry Baird) – Classic Movie Review 2832

Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star together for the first time in American International Pictures’ tasty, effective 1969 gothic shocker officially based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial, but also combining ideas taken from […]

Aug, 19

Isle of the Dead **** (1945, Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer) – Classic Movie Review 2673

Boris Karloff stars in director Mark Robson’s wild, haunting 1945 Val Lewton-produced chiller, set in 1912 on a Greek island marooned by war and bedevilled by plague and maybe demon vampires. Martin Scorsese places it on his list […]

Jul, 06

The Premature Burial ***½ (1962, Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Alan Napier, Heather Angel) – Classic Movie Review 563

The good-looking, atmospheric 1962 American horror film The Premature Burial is the third in Roger Corman’s series of eight Edgar Allan Poe-themed pictures and stars Ray Milland and Hazel Court. ‘Within this Coffin Lies a Man… […]

Dec, 22

The Mummy **** (1932, Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 99

Boris Karloff is on fine menacing form, swearing destruction as Imhotep (‘Kheb, khebet…’), in The Mummy (1933). Ironically in real life Imhotep’s name meant ‘He who comes in peace is with peace’. ‘Kheb, khebet…’ – […]

Jul, 28

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