Derek Winnert

Nightmare **** (1964, David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden, Brenda Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 3,306

Director Freddie Francis’s 1964 Hammer Films British cult horror film Nightmare stars Jennie Linden as a girl in a finishing school plagued by nightmares after seeing her mother stab her father to death. ‘Unbelievable terror’, eh? ‘THREE SHOCKING MURDERS…did […]

Jan, 31 · in Reviews

Paranoiac ***½ (1963, Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham, Alexander Davion, Liliane Brousse) – Classic Movie Review 3305

Hammer Films’ 1963 thriller Paranoiac is loosely based on Josephine Tey’s brilliant novel Brat Farrar, in which a charming young man long believed dead returns to his family estate to claim his inheritance. Director Freddie […]

Jan, 31 · in Reviews

The Reptile *** (1966, Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline Pearce) – Classic Movie Review 3304

Director John Gilling’s amusing, well-mounted and moody 1966 Hammer horror The Reptile is atmospherically set in an eerie Cornwall. Anthony Hinds (screen writing under the pseudonym of  John Elder) provides a sinister tale about a […]

Jan, 30

The Plague of the Zombies *** (1966, André Morell, Jacqueline Pearce, John Carson, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, Michael Ripper) – Classic Movie Review 3,303

André Morell stars in The Plague of the Zombies (1966) as an old professor who investigates when the local squire uses a voodoo ritual to raise zombies from the dead. Jacqueline Pearce plays an alluring […]

Jan, 30

The Terror of the Tongs *** (1961, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone) – Classic Movie Review 3300

NOW YOU CAN SEE SPINE-TINGLING TONG TERROR! Director Anthony Bushell’s 1961 British thriller stars Geoffrey Toone as British sea captain Jackson Sale, a brave merchant seaman who attempts to discover the murderers of his daughter and […]

Jan, 30

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb ***½ (1971, Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers, Hugh Burden, George Coulouris) – Classic Movie Review 3,298

The 1971 British chiller Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb is an imaginative, intelligent, menacing, above-average late Hammer horror movie, based by on a lesser-known Bram Stoker novel. Director Seth Holt’s 1971 British chiller Blood from […]

Jan, 30

The Mummy’s Curse ** (1944, Lon Chaney Jr, Peter Coe, Virginia Christine, Addison Richards, Kay Harding) – Classic Movie Review 3302

Director Leslie Goodwins serves up yet more Mummy mayhem, this time set in the swamps of Louisiana, in his acceptable 1944 Universal horror movie sequel, the fifth and last proper movie in the original Mummy saga […]

Jan, 29

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