Derek Winnert

Day of the Animals ** (1977, Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George) – Classic Movie Review 8305

Aerosols have damaged the ozone layer and turned animals above the altitude of 5000 feet into man-killers preying on High Sierra hikers, in director William Girdler’s rather horrible 1977 action horror thriller shocker Day of […]

Mar, 28 · in Reviews

Grizzly ** (1976, Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel) – Classic Movie Review 8304

Here we go with another urban dweller’s holiday nightmare as this time a monster bear attacks the vacationers at a US national park. As the park ranger and his posse try to stop the bear’s […]

Mar, 28 · in Reviews

The Manitou ** (1978, Tony Curtis, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Jeanette Nolan, Susan Strasberg) – Classic Movie Review 8303

Alas poor Tony Curtis, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Jeanette Nolan and Lurene Tuttle! How did these good old actors get involved in director William Girdler’s entertainingly absurd 1978 chiller hokum The Manitou about Susan Strasberg […]

Mar, 28

Maniac ** (1963, Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston) – Classic Movie Review 8302

Director Michael Carreras’s 1963 British black and white horror thriller Maniac stars Kerwin Mathews as Jeff Farrell, an American artist tourist drifter in France, who is seduced by tricksy café owner Eve (Nadia Gray) and […]

Mar, 27

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence ** (1993, Robert Davi, Robert Z’Dar, Caitlin Dulany) – Classic Movie Review 8301

Director William Lustig’s and writer Larry Cohen’s 1993 slasher film Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence is more of the same in the second exploitative sequel with a further welter of violence and bad jokes […]

Mar, 26

Maniac Cop 2 *** (1990, Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner) – Classic Movie Review 8300

Director William Lustig’s and writer Larry Cohen’s 1990 Maniac Cop 2 is a cheaper-looking and even more exploitative-seeming sequel to their 1988 horror thriller Maniac Cop, with a welter of violence and bad black humour […]

Mar, 26

Maniac Cop *** (1988, Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon) – Classic Movie Review 8299

Larry Cohen writes and produces (though perhaps he should also have directed) director William Lustig’s cult film Maniac Cop, which tells an intriguing and involving tale about a brutal killer on the loose on the […]

Mar, 26

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