Derek Winnert

Fiend without a Face *** (1958, Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Terry Kilburn, Kim Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8145

‘New Horrors! Mad Science Spawns Evil Fiends! …Taking form before your horrified eyes!’ Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1957 British-made, pretend-American black and white horror movie Fiend without a Face is rather fiendish, with a spooky climax, […]

Feb, 18 · in Uncategorized

Horrors of the Black Museum ** (1959, Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 8,144

‘No woman can hold her tongue. They’re a vicious, unreliable breed!’ – Edmond Bancroft. Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1959 British horror movie Horrors of the Black Museum stars Michael Gough as crime writer Edmond Bancroft, who provides […]

Feb, 18 · in Reviews

The Horror Show [House III] * (1989, Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart) – Classic Movie Review 8143

Director James Isaac’s often tedious and very unpleasant 1989 horror fantasy The Horror Show [House III] is lifted slightly by Lance Henriksen’s all-stops-out acting as Detective Lucas McCarthy, a cop chased in his new house […]

Feb, 18

House II: The Second Story ** (1987, Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano) – Classic Movie Review 8142

There is too much slapdash comedy in director Ethan Wiley’s 1987 House II: The Second Story, the even dafter yet still popular haunted mansion horror-thriller sequel to the 1986 hit House. It motors on a […]

Feb, 18

House *** (1985, William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt, Richard Moll) – Classic Movie Review 8141

Perry Mason’s William Katt and George Cheers’s Wendt join forces for director Steve Miner’s daft yet popular 1985 haunted mansion horror-thriller House, with a high tally of foolish laughs and fairground ride-style scares. Katt plays […]

Feb, 17

Action of the Tiger ** (1957, Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom, Gustavo Rojo, Anthony Dawson, José Nieto, Helen Haye, Anna Gerbern, Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 8140

Director Terence Young’s busy and capably handled but cardboard 1957 action adventure Action of the Tiger stars Van Johnson as Carson, a manly American contraband runner and mercenary hired by glamorous blonde French woman Tracy […]

Feb, 17

On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] *** (1961, Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Victor Maddern, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde White, Kathleen Harrison) – Classic Movie Review 8139

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1961 On the Fiddle [Operation Snafu] is an enjoyably fun and fairly smart British black and white World War Two wartime farce, made out of its time at the start of the Sixties. […]

Feb, 17

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