Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Hammer horror"

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The 50 films directed by Terence Fisher

  The underrated British film director Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) directed movies from 1948 to 1974, and was best known for his work for Hammer Films, directing 29 films for […]

Apr, 09

Hysteria ** (1965, Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne, Maurice Denham, Lelia Goldoni) – Classic Movie Review 5653

‘TERRIFYING SUSPENSE …it will shock you out of your seat!’ The 1965 Hysteria is the third and last – and least – of director Freddie Francis’s enjoyable Psycho-esque Hammer Horror psychological mystery thriller trilogy, after Paranoiac (1963) […]

Jun, 22

Nightmare **** (1964, David Knight, Moira Redmond, Jennie Linden) – Classic Movie Review 3306

Director Freddie Francis’s excellent 1964 psychological suspense thriller Nightmare stars the 25-year-old Jennie Linden as troubled young heiress Janet, a student at a private school. She is being brought up in the absence of her parents […]

Jan, 31

The Mummy’s Shroud *** (1967, André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck) – Classic Movie Review 3272

Eddie Powell plays the mummy of an Egyptian slave who is brought back to life in the England of 1920 in director John Gilling’s atmospheric 1967 Hammer horror – the third part of the series following […]

Jan, 29

X the Unknown ***½ (1956, Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley, William Lucas) – Classic Movie Review 3161

‘It rises from 2000 miles below the earth to melt everything in its path!’ That fine American star character actor Dean Jagger comes to the UK in 1956 to star as canny old Doctor Adam […]

Dec, 17

Vampire Circus *** (1972, John Moulder-Brown, Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Lynne Frederick, Thorley Walters, Elizabeth Seal, Anthony Higgins) – Classic Movie Review 3157

Director Robert Young’s 1972 Hammer Films British chiller Vampire Circus is a neat, eerie and attractively strange Hammer horror about a 19th-century touring circus show, whose performers are vampires, able to break through the black […]

Dec, 15

The Witches ** (1966, Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 3068

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1966 horror movie is a typical Hammer Films outing into the territory of black magic, the occult, voodoo and witchcraft. It features two effective performances – from a rather film-starry Joan Fontaine […]

Nov, 17

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