Derek Winnert

The Mask of Satan [La maschera del demonio] [Black Sunday] **** (1960, Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi) – Classic Movie Review 3875

Mario Bava’s powerful 1960 movie exercise in Gothic horror The Mask of Satan [Black Sunday] is now hailed as one of the greatest horror masterpieces of Italian film. Tim Burton said it is his favourite […]

Jun, 16 · in Reviews

Targets ****½ (1968, Boris Karloff, Tim O’Kelly, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis, Peter Bogdanovich) – Classic Movie Review 3874

Writer-director Peter Bogdanovich’s controversial 1968 film début hit hard in its day and still packs a punch, remaining a seriously relevant thriller. It promised a great future for Bogdanovich, which, for a while in the […]

Jun, 16 · in Reviews

The Terror *** (1963, Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dorothy Neumann, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze) – Classic Movie Review 3873

‘No one will be admitted while the coffin is being opened!’ The Terror (1963) is a semi-celebrated glimpse of the skill and ingenuity of Roger Corman in putting together a project when once again confronted […]

Jun, 16

Last Woman on Earth ** (1960, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone, Robert Towne) – Classic Movie Review 3872

Producer-director Roger Corman’s weird and intriguing 1960 sci-fi film tells the story of three survivors of a mysterious apocalypse that appears to have wiped out all human life on Earth. Betsy Jones-Moreland stars as Evelyn Gern with Antony […]

Jun, 15

Little Shop of Horrors **** (1986, Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin) – Classic Movie Review 3,871

Frank Oz’s 1986 movie musical of the off-Broadway stage show based on Roger Corman’s 1960 cult black comedy horror film The Little Shop of Horrors is colourful and winning. Little Shop of Horrors has much […]

Jun, 15

The Little Shop of Horrors **** (1960, Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 3,870

Roger Corman spent only $30,000 and took just two days to shoot the cult 1960 black comedy horror film The Little Shop of Horrors. Jack Nicholson plays masochistic dental patient Wilbur Force.  Incredibly, producer-director Roger […]

Jun, 15

Dunston Checks In *** (1996, Jason Alexander, Rupert Everett, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 3869

Director Ken Kwapis’s daft 1996 family adventure comedy stars Jason Alexander as luxurious Majestic Hotel manager Robert Grant, who can handle anything – until thieving orangutan Dunston checks in. Rupert Everett is classy as the […]

Jun, 15

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