Derek Winnert

The Funhouse *** (1981, Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Miles Chapin, Cooper Huckabee, Sylvia Miles, Shawn Carson, Jeanne Austin) – Classic Movie Review 5985

Directed by Tobe Hooper’s effectively nightmarish, teen-aimed 1981 American slasher horror film stars Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff and Sylvia Miles, with Shawn Carson and Jeanne Austin. The film’s plot, in the […]

Aug, 28 · in Uncategorized

Lifeforce *** (1985, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay, Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart, Michael Gothard) – Classic Movie Review 5984

Director Tobe Hooper’s 1985 British movie tribute to Hammer Films is an entertainingly gory, tongue-in-cheek vampire movie set in London and starring Peter Firth and Frank Finlay. In Dan O’Bannon and Don Jacoby’s screenplay, based […]

Aug, 28 · in Uncategorized

Terror in a Texas Town **** (1958, Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 5983

Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1958 cult Western is tense, moody and unusual, with an effective Gothic climax in which Sterling Hayden’s star character George Hansen faces the six-gun-toting bad guy with a whaling harpoon. The portly […]

Aug, 28

Terror of Mechagodzilla [Mekagojira no gyakushu] ** (1975, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata) – Classic Movie Review 5982

‘The mighty titan of terror in his most incredible adventure,’ screamed Toho studios to advertise director Ishirô Honda’s 1975 Japanese horror movie, the 15th in the Gojira/ Godzilla series, which by then already had been […]

Aug, 28

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde * (2003, Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Luke Wilson, Jennifer Coolidge, Regina King) – Classic Movie Review 5981

Reese Witherspoon returns to overplay her hand in director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld’s lame, stale and mostly tiresome 2003 sequel to the 2001 hit Legally Blonde, with some faintly rancid anti-gay stuff. Reese is back in the pink as the […]

Aug, 27

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre **** (1974, Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Gunnar Hansen) – Classic Movie Review 5980

Director Tobe Hooper’s scintillating 1974 film début proper (following 1969’s experimental Eggshells) ranks as one of the most shocking and powerful horror films ever made and is a horror movie game changer. Based on the true […]

Aug, 27

A Severed Head ** (1970, Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Ian Holm, Claire Bloom, Jennie Linden, Clive Revill) – Classic Movie Review 5979

Director Dick Clement’s 1970 sex comedy is an intriguing might-have-been sort of movie. It has all the clever elements it needs to make it work, but strangely it misfires. Writer Frederic Raphael and the actors […]

Aug, 27

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