Derek Winnert

The Greed of William Hart [Horror Maniacs] ** (1948, Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Aubrey Woods, Patrick Addison, Jenny Lynn, Winifred Melville, Arnold Bell) – Classic Movie Review 10,871

Director Oswald Mitchell’s 1948 black and white horror movie The Greed of William Hart [Horror Maniacs] is a lip-smacking, body-snatching British low-budget feature that stars the appropriately named Tod Slaughter as corpse-pincher William Hart, though […]

Feb, 02 · in Reviews

Curse of the Undead ** (1959, Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley) – Classic Movie Review 10,870

‘HIS BODY IS AN EMPTY SHELL THAT HOSTS A LUSTFUL FIEND!. Co-writer/ director Edward Dein’s 1959 Universal International Pictures black and white mix of drama, horror and romance Curse of the Undead stars Michael Pate as […]

Feb, 02 · in Reviews

The Curse of the Wraydons [Strangler’s Morgue] ** (1946, Bruce Seton, Henry Caine, Pearl Cameron) – Classic Movie Review 10,869

‘At the opening of the last century this island of ours stood alone facing the menace of Buonaparte’s mastery of Europe. At this vital moment there were a few traitorous Englishmen willing to sell their […]

Feb, 02

Crimes at the Dark House *** (1940, Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves) – Classic Movie Review 10,868

Producer-director George King’s luridly melodramatic 1940 British black and white B-movie thriller Crimes at the Dark House gleefully turns the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins mystery novel The Woman in White into another absurdly amusing, over-the-top […]

Feb, 02

The Face Behind the Mask [Behind the Mask] **** (1941, Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe) – Classic Movie Review 10,867

‘WHAT FIENDISH FURY TURNS MAN INTO MONSTER?’ Director Robert Florey’s 1941 Columbia Pictures black and white film noir crime thriller The Face Behind the Mask [Behind the Mask] stars Peter Lorre, who is on top […]

Feb, 02

The Face at the Window *** (1939, Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, John Warwick, Aubrey Mallalieu) – Classic Movie Review 10,866

Producer-director George King’s 1939 thriller The Face at the Window stars Tod Slaughter at his most succulently barnstorming as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo in a 19th-century tale of an 1880 Paris deranged killer who keeps […]

Feb, 02

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn *** (1935, Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D J Williams, Eric Portman) – Classic Movie Review 10,865

‘Sensational! Eerie! Sinister! Weird! The most unusual picture of the year!’ Director Milton Rosmer’s cheaply-produced, enjoyable 1935 horror crime thriller Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn stars Tod Slaughter, who is in […]

Feb, 02

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