Derek Winnert

The Deadly Bees * (1966, Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 3098

Director Freddie Francis’s slow and tepid 1966 British horror thriller for Max J Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky’s Amicus productions stars Suzanna Leigh as Vicki Robbins, an exhausted dim and demented pop singer who takes a […]

Nov, 26 · in Reviews

Torture Garden *** (1967, Burgess Meredith, Peter Cushing, Beverly Adams, Jack Palance, Michael Bryant, John Standing) – Classic Movie Review 3097

Director Freddie Francis’s 1967 Amicus chiller is the first of Robert (Psycho) Bloch’s three compendium films of four horror tales. It stars Burgess Meredith, Peter Cushing, Beverly Adams, Jack Palance, Michael Bryant and John Standing. It […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

The Legend of Hell House *** (1973, Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt) – Classic Movie Review 3,096

The sinister 1973 British horror movie The Legend of Hell House stars Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin and Roddy McDowall as a quartet who agree to spend the week in Hell House to see […]

Nov, 25

And Now the Screaming Starts! *** (1973, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 3095

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1973 British chiller is a bizarre, gruesome and handsome-looking Amicus horror tale about a family curse in which a disembodied hand comes through a picture on a wall and avenges the […]

Nov, 25

At Close Range **** (1986, Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Mary Stuart Masterson) – Classic Movie Review 3094

Director James Foley’s eye-catching 1986 thriller is based on the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr and his sons, from Chester County, Pennsylvania, though it is filmed in Tennessee. Written by Nicholas Kazan, it has an extremely […]

Nov, 25

Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

The Beast Must Die [Black Werewolf] *** (1974, Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Tom Chadbon, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 3092

‘One of our guests is a werewolf, I know it.’ – Tom Newcliffe. Director Paul Annett’s 1974 reasonably enjoyable British werewolf B-movie thriller for producer Milton Subotsky’s Amicus studio is a tough and quite effective […]

Nov, 25

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