Derek Winnert

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I Married a Monster from Outer Space *** (1958, Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Ty Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 3,696

Aliens are employing Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) to control the Earth in producer-director Gene Fowler Jr’s cheap and cheerful 1958 sci-fi cult movie, made for just $125,000 or $175,000 (estimated) by Paramount Pictures. Poor Marge […]

May, 11

Midnight Special ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jeff Nichols boldly goes at having a crack at something a bit different in this dark and brooding 2016 sci-fi chase thriller. It’s an oddball story in which a father Roy and his eight-year-old son Alton Meyer go […]

Apr, 07

10 Cloverfield Lane **** (2016, John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr) – Movie Review

I do love a horror movie that delivers. I’ve been looking for one for ages and ages – and, finally, this is it! None of your, oh that dripping water might be scary, those woods […]

Mar, 14

Monsters **** (2010, Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides) – Classic Movie Review 3312

Hooray for writer-director Gareth Edwards’s imaginative, stylish, thrilling and very well done 2010 sci-fi thriller, in which aliens have appeared on Earth and the authorities are trying to contain the creatures. The plot focuses on cynical US […]

Feb, 01

Village of the Damned ** (1995, Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Mark Hamill) – Classic Movie Review 3194

In a village in Marin County, everyone falls asleep and, when they wake up six hours later, ten women, including a virgin, are pregnant. Nine months after, there are ten lookalike babies all with white […]

Dec, 29

Quatermass and the Pit [Five Million Years to Earth] **** (1967, Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 3166

Director Roy Ward Baker 1967 sci-fi horror movie is the third and last of the Hammer Films’ versions of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass BBC television serials. It has London Underground excavators digging up a spaceship and […]

Dec, 18

The Quatermass Xperiment [The Creeping Unknown] *** (1955, Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 3164

The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer’s first venture into horror movies, and the first X-certificate movie from a British company. Director Val Guest’s 1955 first spin-off from Nigel Kneale’s BBC TV serials is a […]

Dec, 17

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