Derek Winnert

Village of the Giants (1965, Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard) – Classic Movie Review 9,571

Delinquent teens ingest a growth compound formula called Goo, created by a kid called Genius (Ron Howard), grow to amazing heights, and terrorise a small town, in the 1965 film Village of the Giants. ‘Teen-Agers […]

Mar, 28 · in Reviews

The Food of the Gods * (1976, Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino, Jon Cypher) – Classic Movie Review 9570

Writer-director Bert I Gordon’s 1976 low-budget exploitation quickie The Food of the Gods is a silly, gooey chiller, adapted from an H G Wells story, about gunge from the ground that creates monsters of insects […]

Mar, 28 · in Uncategorized

Night of the Lepus * (1972, Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, Paul Fix, DeForest Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 9569

‘How many eyes does horror have? How many times will terror strike?’ Director William F Claxton’s 1972 Night of the Lepus stars Stuart Whitman and Janet Leigh as scientists Roy and Gerry Bennett, who inject […]

Mar, 28

Kingdom of the Spiders *** (1977, William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode) – Classic Movie Review 9,568

‘A living, crawling, hell on Earth!’ The 1977 B-movie sci-fi horror thriller Kingdom of the Spiders stars William Shatner as vet Dr Rack Hansen, who is somewhat surprised to find his Arizona town is being […]

Mar, 28

Kenny Rogers as The Gambler [The Gambler] *** (1980, Kenny Rogers, Christine Belford, Bruce Boxleitner) – Classic Movie Review 9567

Director Dick Lowry’s 1980 TV Movie Kenny Rogers as The Gambler [The Gambler] is a pleasant, good-looking Western, based on a hit song by the country singer Kenny Rogers, about a gambler called Brady Hawkes, […]

Mar, 27

Fritz the Cat **** (1972, voice of Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry, Judy Engles, Phil Seuling) – Classic Movie Review 9566

Writer-director Ralph Bakshi’s 1971 feature film debut Fritz the Cat is a naughty, outrageous satirical cartoon for switched-on early Seventies adults about the adventures of a raunchy New York alley puss, Fritz the Cat (voice […]

Mar, 27

Frogs ** (1972, Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, Judy Pace) – Classic Movie Review 9,565

In the 1972 horror movie Frogs, it’s killer frogs (as well as a few snakes, turtles and lizards thrown in for good measure!) that are rampaging on a remote island in the American Deep South, […]

Mar, 27

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