Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Operazione Paura [Kill, Baby… Kill!] **** (1966, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali) – Classic Movie Review 7823

Director Mario Bava’s creepy, atmospheric and outstanding 1966 Italian Gothic horror film Operazione Paura [Kill, Baby… Kill!] stars Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc and Fabienne Dali. Based on a story co-written by Bava, Romano Migliorini, and Roberto […]

Nov, 23 · in Reviews

The Horror of Party Beach ** (1964, John Scott, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel) – Classic Movie Review 7822

Director Del Tenney’s enterprising 1964 low-budget ($120,000) effort The Horror of Party Beach is billed as ‘The first horror monster musical!’, in which sea creatures created from black liquid radioactive sludge terrorise a southern California beach community. These […]

Nov, 22 · in Reviews

Carnival of Souls **** (1962, Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger) – Classic Movie Review 7821

Director Herk Harvey’s 1962 well-respected, much admired low-budget ($30,000) cult favourite horror movie Carnival of Souls stars Candace Hilligoss as pretty church organist Mary Henry, who escapes from a car crash not quite alive, is drawn […]

Nov, 22

The Curse of the Living Corpse * (1964, Roy Scheider, Candace Hilligoss, Helen Warren, Robert Milli, Margot Hartman, Hugh Franklin) – Classic Movie Review 7820

A terminally sick millionaire, wracked by seizures that make it seem like he is dead, fulfills his threat made in his will to come back from the dead and kill his family if they bury […]

Nov, 22

Mask of the Avenger ** (1951, John Derek, Anthony Quinn, Jody Lawrance) – Classic Movie Review 7819

Set in Italy in 1848, director Phil Karlson’s busy, action-packed and modestly entertaining 1951 period action adventure romp Mask of the Avenger is distantly related to its supposed source in Alexander Dumas’s novel The Count […]

Nov, 22

Scram! *** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Cramer, Vivien Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 7818

Director Raymond McCarey’s 1932 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy two-reel comedy short film Scram! is cleverly written and carefully constructed, and of course expertly played, though overall it is maybe only mildly funny. However, it […]

Nov, 21

Sei donne per l’assassino [Blood and Black Lace] **** (1964, Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Mary Arden) – Classic Movie Review 7817

For his 1964 film Sei Donne per Assassino [Blood and Black Lace], the Italian horror maestro director Mario Bava turns in a visually stylish but pretty dodgy and scarily grisly horror mystery thriller about a […]

Nov, 21

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