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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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