Derek Winnert

Mystery Sea Raider ** (1940, Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 8147

‘SPY RING strikes at sea!’ Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1940 Paramount Pictures feature Mystery Sea Raider is a routine World War Two wartime flag-waving spy drama, with some good tension and effective romantic moments, but there […]

Feb, 18 · in Reviews

Mystery Street **** (1950, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan, Betsy Blair) – Classic Movie Review 8146

Director John Sturges’s 1950 Mystery Street is a well-plotted, fascinating police procedural film noir crime thriller, with Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan and Betsy Blair starring. […]

Feb, 18 · in Reviews

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

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

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

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