Derek Winnert

House of Flying Daggers [Shi mian mai fu] **** (2004, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi) – Classic Movie Review 2769

Chinese Imperial officers Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro try to infiltrate the subversive Flying Daggers group and Kaneshiro ends up with a beautiful blind girl (Zhang Ziyi) battling pursuing warriors in the forested landscapes. The […]

Aug, 02 · in Reviews

Dracula’s Daughter *** (1936, Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 2,767

Gloria Holden stars as the vampire Countess Marya Zaleska in the 1936 American horror film Dracula’s Daughter, Universal Pictures’ sequel to the 1931 Dracula. Director Lambert Hillyer’s 1936 horror movie Dracula’s Daughter (remotely based on […]

Aug, 02 · in Reviews

The Son of Dr Jekyll *** (1951, Louis Hayward, Alexander Knox, Jody Lawrance, Lester Matthews, Paul Cavanagh, Gavin Muir, Rhys Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2765

Producer-director Seymour Friedman’s forgotten 1951 chiller tries for an interesting expansion and continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story with the bad doctor’s son Edward Jekyll (Louis Hayward) going through a […]

Aug, 01

Son of Dracula *** (1943, Lon Chaney Jr, Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Frank Craven, Evelyn Ankers) – Classic Movie Review 2766

Director Robert Siodmak’s engaging, highly watchable 1943 vintage horror chiller sequel is the first film where a vampire is shown transforming into a bat. The third movie in Universal Studios’ Dracula trilogy, preceded by Dracula […]

Aug, 01

The Daughter of Dr Jekyll *** (1957, John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 2764

‘Blood-hungry spawn of the world’s most bestial fiend!’ Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1957 horror movie intriguingly merges the Jekyll and Hyde and werewolf stories. Gloria Talbott stars as Janet Smith in this tale of a […]

Aug, 01

National Lampoon’s Vacation **** (1983, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Imogene Coca, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 2763

Director Harold Ramis’s 1983 comedy stars Chevy Chase as inventor Clark Griswold, who takes a vacation across America from the family home in Chicago to California’s famous ‘Walley World’ theme park, named after Eddie Bracken’s thin m0ustached […]

Aug, 01

The Curse of the Cat People **** (1944, Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter) – Classic Movie Review 2762

Co-writer/producer Val Lewton’s 1944 sequel to his 1943 Cat People is an eerie, melodramatic, film noir horror fantasy about a lonely child called Amy Reed (Ann Carter, aged six). She gets tangled up with an imaginary world inhabited […]

Jul, 31

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