Derek Winnert

House of Usher [The Fall of the House of Usher] **** (1960, Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, Mark Damon, Harry Ellerbe) – Classic Movie Review 2,844

The 1960 horror film House of Usher is the first and perhaps best of Roger Corman’s eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Vincent Price is on rousing form as the albino Roderick Usher, desperate to end […]

Aug, 23 · in Reviews

The Tomb of Ligeia **** (1964, Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, Oliver Johnston) – Classic Movie Review 2,843

Shot in England and released in 1964, The Tomb of Ligeia, the final film in director Roger Corman’s cycle of eight Edgar Allan Poe-inspired movies (begun with House of Usher in 1960) is a creepily […]

Aug, 23 · in Uncategorized

The House that Dripped Blood *** (1971, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, Joanna Lumley, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2842

Debut film director Peter Duffell’s effective 1971 four-segment Amicus compendium chiller, set around a murderous mansion, is written with knowing glee by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Denholm Elliott lead […]

Aug, 23

The Passenger [Professione: Reporter] **** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 2841

‘I used to be somebody else… but I traded myself in.’ – David Locke. Co-writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni decorates – or rather obscures – Mark Peploe’s intriguing 1975 thriller plot with a great deal of fine […]

Aug, 23

Zabriskie Point **** (1970, Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor, Paul Fix) – Classic Movie Review 2840

Co-writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni’s fascinating if somewhat misguided 1970 American odyssey film Zabriskie Point follows the misadventures of student radical dropout Mark (Mark Frechette). He is accused of a cop’s murder during a student riot, pilots […]

Aug, 22

L’Avventura ***** (1960, Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari) – Classic Movie Review 2,839

Enigmatic beauty Monica Vitti stars gracefully in one of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s most famous films, L’Avventura (1960). Lea Massari plays the young woman who disappears during a boating trip in the Mediterranean. Enigmatic beauty Monica […]

Aug, 22

La Notte [The Night] ***** (1961, Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Giorgio Negro, Vincenzo Corbella) – Classic Movie Review 2838

Antonioni entrances us with iconic Sixties actors and scenes from a dying marriage. This much-admired and long-recognised 1961 world cinema classic is one of co-writer/ director Michelangelo Antonioni’s acclaimed and brilliantly stylish Sixties studies in alienation. […]

Aug, 22

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