Derek Winnert

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The Spider *** (1931, Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel, John Arledge, George E Stone, Earle Foxe) – Classic Movie Review 11,387

THRILL to the most amazing mystery of your life as a lurid web is woven around the helpless victims of… EDMUND LOWE in THE SPIDER (1931). Directors William Cameron Menzies and Kenneth MacKenna’s intricate, imaginatively […]

Jul, 13

Arachnophobia **** (1990, Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 8793

The 1990 ‘thrillomedy’ film Arachnophobia stars Jeff Daniels as a nice arachnophobic doctor, Julian Sands as a crazy scientist and John Goodman as a bug exterminator, who fight off an attack of killer spiders at […]

Aug, 05

The Secret of My Success ** (1965, James Booth, Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones, Honor Blackman, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 8,711

The 1965 British movie The Secret of My Success stars James Booth as a naïve copper who runs into romantic tangles. Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones and Honor Blackman also star in an episodic black comedy […]

Jul, 15

Eight Legged Freaks *** (2002, David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson, Doug E Doug, Rick Overton, Leon Rippy) – Classic Movie Review 7021

Watch out, bloodthirsty beasts are about when a bunch of exotic venomous spiders eat noxious chemicals of toxic waste and grow to humungous size. Naturally, there is a small American town to be terrorised, and […]

May, 08

The Giant Spider Invasion * (1975, Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Alan Hale Jr, Robert Easton, Leslie Parrish, Bill Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2903

Co-producer/director Bill Rebane’s unintentionally hilarious 1975 sci-fi horror monster movie features giant 15-meter spiders from another dimension. Upset by a meteor that lands on a North Wisconsin farm and subsequent nuclear fallout, the spiders leap from […]

Sep, 12

The Incredible Shrinking Man ***** (1957, Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 2759

Jack Arnold’s famous 1957 sci-fi movie is a hugely popular, much loved cult classic, based on the novel The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson, with a screenplay by him and Richard Alan Simmons. Grant Williams stars […]

Jul, 31

Spider **** (2002, Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville) – Classic Movie Review 1747

Ralph Fiennes is brilliant as the mentally ill Dennis Clegg, nicknamed ‘Spider’ by his mother (Miranda Richardson). Now in his thirties, he is released after 20 years in a clinic to Lynn Redgrave’s depressingly seedy London boarding […]

Oct, 06

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