Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

How Awful About Allan **½ (1970, Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4820

Director Curtis Harrington’s intense 1970 psychological thriller stars Anthony Perkins as Allan, a tormented psychosomatic blind man who thinks that his release from an eight-month stay in a mental hospital and his proximity to his […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? *** (1972, Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 4819

Director Curtis Harrington’s bizarre 1972 British horror thriller is his entertaining follow-up to his 1971 What’s the Matter with Helen? and reunites him with one of its stars, Shelley Winters, who plays dotty old Auntie […]

Dec, 29 · in Reviews

What’s the Matter with Helen? ***½ (1971, Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver, Micheál MacLiammóir, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 4818

Director Curtis Harrington’s 1971 horror thriller is a prime slice of deliciously hammy, creepy melodrama, in which the delightful seasoned troupers Debbie Reynolds and Shelley Winters have a grand old time as Thirties Hollywood mothers, […]

Dec, 29

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? **** (1969, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 4817

This extremely tasty 1969 black comedy mystery chiller is producer Robert Aldrich’s third Grand Guignol horror film after What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). However, this time there is no […]

Dec, 29

Atlas * (1961, Michael Forest, Frank Wolff, Barboura Morris) – Classic Movie Review 4816

Michael Forest stars as the wrestler hero Atlas, who fights the evil king Praximedes (Frank Wolff), the power-crazed tyrannical ruler of Seronikos, for the hand of his mistress Candia (Barboura Morris). Handsome muscleman Michael Forest, […]

Dec, 29

The Exorcism of Emily Rose *** (2005, Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Carpenter, Colm Feore) – Classic Movie Review 4815

Co-writer/ director Scott Derrickson’s scary, well-crafted and literate 2005 American legal drama horror film, loosely based on a true story about Anneliese Michel, won the 2005 Saturn Award for Best Horror or Thriller Film and […]

Dec, 29

Sinister *** (2012, Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Ransone) – Classic Movie Review 4814

Co-writer/ director Scott Derrickson’s implausible but satisfyingly twisty and scary 2012 British-Canadian-American supernatural horror film Sinister (written with C Robert Cargill) finds a good star role for Ethan Hawke as fictional washed-up true-crime writer Ellison […]

Dec, 29

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