Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "cult film"

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Keoma **** (1976, Franco Nero, William Berger, Orso Maria Guerrini, Joshua Sinclair, Olga Karlatos, Donald O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 8402

Franco Nero stars in director Enzo G Castellari’s classic 1976 vigilante Spaghetti Western Keoma, as the mixed-race half-Indian ex-Union gunfighter Keoma Shannon, who tries to protect his plague-ridden home town from being overridden by his […]

Apr, 27

Puppet Master [Puppetmaster] *** (1989, Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle, Jimmie F Skaggs) – Classic Movie Review 8378

Director David Schmoeller’s 1989 Puppet Master is a bright little Eighties horror flick with a loony plot, based on a story by Charles Band and Kenneth J Hall, with a screenplay by David Schmoeller (billed […]

Apr, 18

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

Stranger Than Paradise *** (1984, John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson) – Classic Movie Review 8250

Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 black and white road-movie comedy drama Stranger than Paradise is aimless yet charming. It turns a lazily hipster eye on two New York deadbeats Willie and Eddie (played by John Lurie […]

Mar, 17

Zorro *** (1975, Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo) – Classic Movie Review 7970

The 1975 swashbuckling adventure Zorro stars Alain Delon, who cuts a dash as Don Diego and the masked avenger El Zorro in director Duccio Tessari’s bubbly, efficiently handled tale of derring-do, set in South America, […]

Jan, 01

Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told *** (1967, Lon Chaney Jr, Carol Ohmart, Quinn K Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner, Sid Haig, Mary Mitchel, Karl Schanzer, Mantan Moreland) – Classic Movie Review 7871

Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1967 black and white low-budget ($65,000) black horror comedy Spider Baby is one of those rare movies that has gone obscurity to cult status, so it is memorable if only just just for that, as well as for its incredible weirdness. It […]

Dec, 02

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