Derek Winnert

The Kiss of the Vampire *** (1963, Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel) – Classic Movie Review 2900

Director Don Sharp’s sinister 1963 movie The Kiss of the Vampire is a thoughtful and entertaining Dracula-style Hammer horror, with scary sequences and a well-judged good old-fashioned battle between good and evil. Noel Willman, a character […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

The Blood Beast Terror * (1968, Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 2899

Director Vernon Sewell’s 1967 mad scientist horror movie made for Britain’s Tigon studios is all about Victorian insect scientist Dr Carl Mallinger (Robert Flemyng), who creates a creature while working with genetics.  The canny creature […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

Corridors of Blood *** (1958, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Betta St John, Finlay Currie, Francis Matthews, Adrienne Corri, Francis de Wolff) – Classic Movie Review 2,898

The nifty 1958 British gothic horror thriller film Corridors of Blood stars great horror icons Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee, along with Betta St John, Finlay Currie and Francis Matthews.  Director Robert Day’s nifty 1958 […]

Sep, 11

Curse of the Crimson Altar ** (1968, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Barbara Steele, Mark Eden, Michael Gough, Virginia Wetherell, Rupert Davies) – Classic Movie Review 2897

Director Vernon Sewell’s 1968 horror movie is the wheelchair-using Boris Karloff’s last British film, and the only time that he, Christopher Lee and Barbara Steele all appeared together. It is a co-production of Tigon and […]

Sep, 10

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials *** (2015, Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee, Aidan Gillen, Patricia Clarkson) – Movie Review

In part two of The Maze Runner saga, the survivors of the Maze face a new impossible odds and obstacles on a desolate, post-apocalypse urban landscape as they are relentlessly pursued by Janson (Aidan Gillen), […]

Sep, 10

The Visit * (2015, Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn) – Movie Review

Single mother Kathryn Hahn packs her two young kids Becca and Tyler off to stay with their weird, never-before-seen grandparents, Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie), and some very odd stuff happens in writer-director M […]

Sep, 10

Legend *** (2015, Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton) – Movie Review

Legend offers Tom Hardy an eagerly and exuberantly taken chance for a bravura star turn in twin roles as 1960s identical twin East End gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray (‘We’re talking about being gangsters, that’s […]

Sep, 09

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