Derek Winnert

The Wolfpack **** (2015, Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo) – Movie Review

First-time director Crystal Moselle‘s documentary about the six Angulo brothers is the most impressive and essential personal biography since Amy. Locked in safe from the supposedly harmful outside world by their parents at home in […]

Aug, 26 · in Reviews

L’Eclisse [The Eclipse] ***** (1962, Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal) – Classic Movie Review 2,850

Michelangelo Antonioni’s electrifying 1962 world cinema classic stars beguiling Monica Vitti as a translator in Rome, who leaves her older lover (Francisco Rabal) and starts a new relationship with a young stockbroker (Alain Delon). Director […]

Aug, 25 · in Reviews

The Haunted Palace *** (1963, Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2849

Director Roger Corman’s fine 1963 chiller once again stars Vincent Price in the fourth in Corman’s cycle of eight films featuring connections with Edgar Allan Poe stories, released by American International Pictures. This time Price […]

Aug, 25

Tales of Terror *** (1962, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage) – Classic Movie Review 2848

Vincent Price stars in three Edgar Allan Poe tales, retold by director Roger Corman in 1962 in his own stylish, baroque gothic horror way. Price also introduced all three sequences, which took just three weeks to film. It […]

Aug, 24

The Masque of the Red Death **** (1964, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, Patrick Magee, Nigel Green) – Classic Movie Review 2847

Director Roger Corman’s highly stylish and imaginatively achieved 1964 horror movie is his seventh adaptation of an 1842 Edgar Allan Poe short story (with another, Hop-Frog, as a sub-plot). A second sub-plot comes from Torture by Hope […]

Aug, 23

The Pit and the Pendulum *** (1991, Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William J Norris, Oliver Reed) – Classic Movie Review 2846

Lance Henriksen is suitably haunted as the particularly sadistic Spanish Inquisition torturer Torquemada in director Stuart Gordon’s gruesome, nasty-toned 1991 made-for-cinema remake of Roger Corman’s 1961 chiller. Rona De Ricci plays Maria, who speaks out […]

Aug, 23

The Pit and the Pendulum **** (1961, Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders) – Classic Movie Review 2845

The 1961 horror film The Pit and the Pendulum is directed by Roger Corman in Panavision and Pathécolor, and stars Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr and Luana Anders. It is notable for Corman’s experiments with camera work and cutting, Richard Matheson’s […]

Aug, 23

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