Derek Winnert

The Ghost Ship *** (1943, Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett) – Classic Movie Review 2036

  The rarest of all producer Val Lewton’s films, this 1943 movie offers an odd and brooding tale of mysterious deaths aboard a ship under the command of dotty, power-crazed captain Richard Dix. The RKO studio had […]

Jan, 02 · in Reviews

Frankenstein: The True Story **** (1973, James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum, Michael Sarrazin, Jane Seymour, Nicola Pagett) – Classic Movie Review 2035

Director Jack Smight’s 1973 finds the British gay novelist Christopher Isherwood and his lifelong partner the artist Don Bachardy setting out together to re-interpret the Mary Shelley classic novel in a back-to-basics, faithful kind of way, […]

Jan, 02 · in Reviews

Frankenstein *½ (1994, Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Briers, John Cleese) – Classic Movie Review 2034

Kenneth Branagh comes a cropper as both actor and director of this plush band ambitious but stodgy and unconvincing 1994 version of Mary Shelley’s classic horror tale that just seems to be going through the […]

Jan, 02

Frankenstein Unbound ** (1990, John Hurt, Raul Julia, Nick Brimble, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, Michael Hutchence) – Classic Movie Review 2,033

Roger Corman’s 1990 reworking of the Frankenstein legend with a sci-fi spin is an intriguing horror movie, based on Brian W Aldiss’s novel, with good performances from John Hurt, Raul Julia and Bridget Fonda. Director/co-writer […]

Jan, 02

Gothika **½ (2004, Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2032

Director Mathieu Kassovitz’s moody and interesting 2004 horror movie stars Halle Berry as Dr Miranda Grey, a repressed jail psychiatrist who ends up in one of her own cells after she has stopped her car […]

Jan, 02

Gothic *** (1986, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Timothy Spall) – Classic Movie Review 2031

Ken Russell’s eye-catching 1986 movie Gothic stars Gabriel Byrne as the mad Lord Byron, Julian Sands as the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley. As time went by, director Ken Russell […]

Jan, 02

Flashdance *** (1983, Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala) – Classic Movie Review 2030

Director Adrian Lyne’s quintessential 1983 musical drama Flashdance stars Jennifer Beals as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel worker welder by day and by night a flashy exotic dancer who wants to get into ballet school […]

Jan, 02

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