Derek Winnert

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Night of Terror ** (1933, Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, Tully Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 10,453

‘A mad murdering midnight menace! ‘ Director Benjamin Stoloff’s quaintly entertaining 1933 Bryan Foy Productions/ Columbia Pictures Old Dark House murder mystery horror film Night of Terror [He Lived to Kill] [Terror in the Night] stars Bela […]

Oct, 23

Confessions of an Opium Eater [Evils of Chinatown] ** (1962, Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo) – Classic Movie Review 10,112

Director Albert Zugsmith’s 1962 black and white mystery crime drama Confessions of an Opium Eater [Evils of Chinatown] stars Vincent Price, who gets to go over the top again as 19th-century adventurer Gilbert De Quincey, […]

Jul, 31

The House with a Clock in Its Walls ** (2018, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan) – Movie Review

With its thin, rather lame story, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is not great for adults but it is well produced in retro style, quite funny, quite scary, and ideal for its […]

Sep, 22

My Name Is Julia Ross **** (1945, Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 4234

Director Joseph H Lewis’s devious 1945 film noir thriller My Name Is Julia Ross stars the young and stylish Nina Foch, who grabs her first starring role as the unfortunate titular Julia Ross, who takes a […]

Aug, 25

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 Little Vampire *** (2000, Jonathan Lipnicki, Rollo Weeks, Richard E Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1771

A married couple called the Thompsons (Tommy Hinkley, Pamela Gidley) move with their nine-year-old lad Tony (Jonathan Lipnicki) to the Scottish Highlands, where the boy starts dreaming about vampires. Then at first he is soon […]

Oct, 22

The Wicked Lady **** (1945, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 1335

The 1945 British costume melodrama film The Wicked Lady stars Margaret Lockwood as a nobleman’s wife who becomes a highwayman for the excitement. It enjoyed incredible popularity when 18,400,000 patrons paid to see it. Writer-director […]

Jun, 18

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