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The Young Poisoner’s Handbook **** (1995, Hugh O’Conor, Antony Sher, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd Pack, Charlotte Coleman, Tobias Arnold, Frank Mills) – Classic Movie Review 5542

Hugh O’Conor gets his first starring role with co-writer/ director Benjamin Ross’s dark and provocative British crime comedy drama, in which he plays intelligent but amoral British teenager Graham Young, an amateur toxicologist unwisely paroled from […]

Jun, 03

The Snake Pit **** (1948, Olivia de Havilland, Leo Genn, Mark Stevens, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Leif Erickson, Beulah Bondi. Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4178

Director Anatole Litvak’s brutal and gruelling 1948 20th Century Fox American psychological drama film The Snake Pit features a blistering Oscar-nominated Best Actress performance from Olivia de Havilland that shines through this tale of a woman committed […]

Aug, 15

Dr Giggles **½ (1992, Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young) – Classic Movie Review 3482

Co-writer/director Manny Coto’s deeply unsettling 1992 horror movie stars Larry Drake as the psychopathic Dr Evan Rendell, aka Dr Giggles, the son of a mass-murdering doctor, who escapes from his mental institution and comes to the […]

Mar, 20

Harvey ***** (1950, James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Wallace Ford, Ida Moore, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 3175

‘The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play… becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!’ Don’t undersell it, will you? Director Henry Koster’s enchanting 1950 comedy enshrines one of James Stewart’s most delightful and beloved […]

Dec, 20

Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

Cat Girl *** (1957, Barbara Shelley, Robert Ayres, Kay Callard) – Classic Movie Review 2758

Director Alfred Shaughnessy’s 1957 Anglo-American horror movie stars Barbara Shelley, who is perfectly cast in this eerie chiller as Leonora Brandt, a young woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told she has inherited […]

Jul, 30

Bedlam **** (1946, Boris Karloff, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2672

Director Mark Robson’s 1946 horror movie stars the great horror icon Boris Karloff as evil asylum master, apothecary general Master George Sims. Sadly it proved the last in the series of stylish B-movie horror films produced by […]

Jul, 06

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