Derek Winnert

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The Black Scorpion ** (1957, Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas) – Classic Movie Review 3917

‘Every Horror You’ve Seen on the Screen Grows Pale Beside the horror of The Black Scorpion!’ Director Edward Ludwig’s amusingly feeble 1957 Warner Bros horror film stars Richard Denning and Mara Corday as American geologist […]

Jul, 02

Attack of the Giant Leeches * (1959, Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Bruno VeSota, Tyler McVey, Jan Shepard ) – Classic Movie Review 3912

‘Fear will pierce your flesh… Until every nerve in your body… EXPLODES!’ Yes, but not all American International Pictures executive producer Roger Corman and producer Gene Corman’s movies have mitigating factors. Director Bernard Kowalski’s $70,000 1959 sci-fi horror […]

Jun, 29

Attack of the Crab Monsters ** (1957, Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 3,913

Roger Corman’s cult favourite 1957 monster movie Attack of the Crab Monsters has a wild title and a big ugly creature. He recalled: ‘This was the most successful of all the early low budget horror […]

Jun, 29

The Wasp Woman ** (1959, Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Michael Mark, William Roerick, Frank Gerstle, Frank Wolff, Bruno VeSota) – Classic Movie Review 3911

‘A beautiful woman by day – a lusting queen wasp by night.’ Producer-director Roger Corman’s ultra-low budget 1959 sci-fi horror film stars Susan Cabot as a thirtysomething cosmetic mogul called Janice Starlin, who agrees to […]

Jun, 26

The Strange World of Planet X [Cosmic Monsters] ** (1958, Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 3758

Director Gilbert Gunn’s 1958 British sci-fi movie stars Alec Mango as British scientist Doctor Laird, who is experimenting with the Earth’s magnetic field along with his team. But, just when when their insect enlarging contraption […]

May, 27

Alligator *** (1980, Robert Forster, Dean Jagger, Henry Silva, Robin Riker, Michael V Gazzo) – Classic Movie Review 3181

Written by John Sayles, director Lewis Teague’s 1980 horror thriller Alligator is good fun and quite scary as a tongue-in-cheek monster movie, even if it is annoyingly patchy and scrappily made. It’s a send-up based […]

Dec, 23

The Giant Spider Invasion * (1975, Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Alan Hale Jr, Robert Easton, Leslie Parrish, Bill Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2903

Co-producer/director Bill Rebane’s unintentionally hilarious 1975 sci-fi horror monster movie features giant 15-meter spiders from another dimension. Upset by a meteor that lands on a North Wisconsin farm and subsequent nuclear fallout, the spiders leap from […]

Sep, 12

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