Derek Winnert

The Man Who Turned to Stone ** (1957, Victor Jory, William Hudson, Charlotte Austin) – Classic Movie Review 8583

‘Incredible revelations from the blackest chapters of unholy medicine!’ Director László [Leslie] Kardos’s wonderfully awful and splendidly bizarre 1957 schlock sci-fi-horror classic The Man Who Turned to Stone finds some 300-year-old undead scientists, organised by […]

Jun, 12 · in Reviews

Zombies of Mora Tau [The Dead That Walk] ** (1957, Gregg Palmer, Allison Hayes, Autumn Russell) – Classic Movie Review 8582

‘TERROR ON THE AFRICAN VOODOO COAST.’ ‘In the darkness of an ancient world – on a shore that time has forgotten – there is a twilight zone between life and death. Here dwell those nameless […]

Jun, 12 · in Reviews

The Trojan Horse [La guerra di Troia] *** (1961, Steve Reeves, Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore, Edy Vessel) – Classic Movie Review 8581

Steve Reeves (aka Mr Universe) stars as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore plays Ulysses in co-writer/ director Giorgio Ferroni’s popular, robust and manly, if amusingly daft 1961 muscleman action adventure from Italy. The Trojan Horse […]

Jun, 11

Yesterday ** (2019, Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ed Sheeran, Sarah Lancashire, Alexander Arnold) – Movie Review

Himesh Patel finds himself battling a charmless loser fraudster of a character in director Danny Boyle’s fantasy musical romcom Yesterday (2019). It is really hard to make former teacher, struggling singer songwriter Jack Malik appealing […]

Jun, 11

The Ugly Dachshund ** (1966, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 8580

‘A HAPPY HONEYMOON GOES TO THE DOGS!… When a Great Dane disguised as a Dachsie crashes the party! ‘ There is a lot of bark but little bite in director Norman Tokar’s amusing enough 1966 […]

Jun, 11

That Night in Rio **** (1941, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda) – Classic Movie Review 8579

Director Irving Cummings’s deliciously bright and campy 1941 musical That Night in Rio stars the formidable trio of Don Ameche, Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. As the tagline tells us, it is filmed in gorgeous […]

Jun, 10

The Incredible Melting Man ** (1977, Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 8578

Writer-director William Sachs’s amusingly silly and entertainingly horrible 1977 drive-in sci-fi-horror movie The Incredible Melting Man stars Alex Rebar as infected spaceman Steve West (aka The Incredible Melting Man of course), whose flesh melts incredibly […]

Jun, 10

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