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Django Strikes Again [Django 2: Il Grande Ritorno] ** (1987, Franco Nero, Christopher Connelly, Licinia Lentini, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 4939

Django Strikes Again is the only official sequel to Django (1965) produced with the involvement of original director Sergio Corbucci, who created the Django character. Franco Nero returns to his iconic role as the flinty-eyed […]

Jan, 25

Django **** (1966, Franco Nero, Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez, José Canalejas) – Classic Movie Review 4926

Co-writer/ director Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 key Spaghetti Western Django stars Franco Nero as the iconic flinty-eyed Django, a coffin-dragging gunslinger who starts off by rescuing half-breed prostitute Maria (Loredana Nusciak) from Mexican bandits. He then sniffs opportunity […]

Jan, 23

Blood for Dracula [Andy Warhol’s Dracula] *** (1974, Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Stefania Casini, Arno Juerging, Vittorio De Sica, Roman Polanski) – Classic Movie Review 3355

Udo Kier’s dying Count Dracula must of course drink the blood of virgins to survive in writer-director Paul Morrissey’s often stylish and amusing 1974 horror movie companion piece to his 1973 Flesh for Frankenstein [Andy Warhol’s […]

Feb, 13

Phantasm *** (1979, Angus Scrimm, A Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister) – Classic Movie Review 3275

The 6′ 4″ evil screen villain Angus Scrimm (aka Lawrence Rory Guy), most famous as The Tall Man in Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm (1979) and its sequels, died at the age of 89 on January 9, 2016. His […]

Jan, 17

Loot ***½ (1970, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Roy Holder, Lee Remick, Milo O’Shea, Dick Emery, Joe Lynch, John Cater, Aubrey Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2971

Director Silvio Narizzano films Joe Orton’s wickedly funny, now classic 1965 stage black comedy Loot in 1970 – the same year as the movie of Entertaining Mr Sloane. To succeed, Orton’s outrageous, wonderfully bad-taste comedy […]

Oct, 10

Brides of Dracula ***½ (1960, Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, Mona Washbourne) – Classic Movie Review 2,942

Peter Cushing returns as vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing in Hammer Films’ 1960 horror film Brides of Dracula, Terence Fisher’s first sequel to the 1958 Dracula, but David Peel replaces Christopher Lee as chief vampire […]

Oct, 02

The Kiss of the Vampire *** (1963, Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza, Jennifer Daniel) – Classic Movie Review 2900

Director Don Sharp’s sinister 1963 movie The Kiss of the Vampire is a thoughtful and entertaining Dracula-style Hammer horror, with scary sequences and a well-judged good old-fashioned battle between good and evil. Noel Willman, a character […]

Sep, 11

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