Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Reviews

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

8MM [Eight Millimeter] *** (1999, Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 3091

Director Joel Schumacher’s 1999 thriller stars Nicolas Cage as Tom Welles, a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Welles is called in by a rich old lady and her lawyer Daniel Longdale (Anthony Heald) […]

Nov, 25

Crisis *** (1950, Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Ramon Novarro, Antonio Moreno, Signe Hasso, Paula Raymond, Leon Ames, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 3,090

The intriguing 1950 thriller film Crisis stars Cary Grant as a renowned American neurosurgeon compelled to try to save the life of a dying South American leader (José Ferrer) with a brain tumour. Writer-director Richard […]

Nov, 24

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