Derek Winnert

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Brain Damage ** (1988, Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry) – Classic Movie Review 10,085

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter, of Basket Case (1982) fame, goes one step further into the realm of bad taste with this tale of a phallus-resembling parasite that locks into Brian (Rick Hearst)’s brain and injects him […]

Jul, 25

Deep Freeze * (2002, Götz Otto, David Millbern, Alexandra Kamp) – Classic Movie Review 8262

In the story and screenplay by Robert Boris, researchers in the Antarctic unearth a bizarre creature in the frozen wastes and take it back to America only to discover that it has a taste for […]

Mar, 19

The Stuff *** (1985, Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Scott Bloom, Danny Aiello, Garrett Morris, Patrick O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 8148

Writer/ director Larry Cohen’s 1985 fantasy comedy The Stuff is an amusing send-up of Fifties sci-fi horror pics, with the engaging, funny performances from a talented cast compensating for the rather uneven writing and apparently […]

Feb, 18

The Brain Eaters ** (1958, Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Joanna Lee, Jack Hill) – Classic Movie Review 2486

Director Bruno VeSota’s silly 1958 tame tingler is more science fiction than horror movie. It rejoices in a mundane plot about hairy alien parasites from the centre of the earth attaching themselves to the backs […]

May, 15

The Host ** (2013, Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, Max Irons, Jake Abel, Frances Fisher, William Hurt, Emily Browning) – Movie Review

Panned by critics and weak at the box office, The Host has a host of problems that start with the ponderous, poorly written screenplay and flat direction of Andrew Niccol, struggling to adapt Stephenie (Twilight) […]

Jun, 02

Alien ***** (1979, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto) – Classic Movie Review 20

Ridley Scott’s nail-biting, astonishing-looking 1979 sci-fi thriller Alien is a masterpiece of shocks, scares and suspense. It is infamous now, of course, for its terrifying monster that grows in crewman John Hurt’s stomach. The nasty […]

Jul, 05

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