Derek Winnert

The Legacy * (1978, Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Roger Daltrey, John Standing, Ian Hogg, Margaret Tyzack, Charles Gray, Lee Montague, Hildegard Neil) – Classic Movie Review 8422

Director Richard Marquand’s almost unbearable 1978 horror movie The Legacy stars Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott as a couple of dull American architects who are stranded in an English old, dark house with a bunch […]

May, 02 · in Reviews

The Brood*** (1979, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle) – Classic Movie Review 8421

Writer-director David Cronenberg’s horrible but effective and imaginative 1979 Canadian sci-fi horror shocker The Brood stars Oliver Reed as mad psychiatrist Dr Hal Raglan, who attempts to free his patients of their neuroses by encouraging […]

May, 01 · in Reviews

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia **** (1974, Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Robert Webber, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 8,420

A Mexican crime lord offers $1 million bounty for the head of the seducer who has made his teenage daughter pregnant, in Sam Peckinpah’s gruesome and horrifying, first-rate 1974 action crime thriller Bring Me the […]

May, 01

Bright Lights, Big City ** (1988, Michael J Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Frances Sternhagen, Dianne Wiest, John Houseman, Jason Robards, William Hickey) – Classic Movie Review 8419

Director James Bridges’s 1988 topical drama Bright Lights, Big City stars a too lightweight and too young-looking Michael J Fox as the anti-hero of this careful and meticulous but rather tedious screen version of Jay […]

May, 01

The Frighteners *** (1996, Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson) – Classic Movie Review 8418

Director Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural black comedy horror thriller The Frighteners, in the style of Beetlejuice complete with a Danny Elfman score, is poundingly pacey, reasonably scary and original enough, but, when the brilliant special […]

May, 01

Meet the Feebles * (1989, Danny Mulheron, Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie) – Classic Movie Review 8417

‘From the creators of Bad Taste, comes a film with no taste at all!’ Director Peter Jackson’s warped, outrageous and disgusting 1989 New Zealand musical black comedy cult movie Meet the Feebles establishes his horror […]

May, 01

Bad Taste ** (1987, Terry Potter, Pete O’Herne, Craig Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8416

Debut director Peter Jackson’s 1987 New Zealand horror movie Bad Taste is junk food for the mind – no substance and too much ketchup, and it is so rare that it is still uncooked and […]

Apr, 30

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