Derek Winnert

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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

Creature from the Haunted Sea ** (1961, Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne) – Classic Movie Review 3910

Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland and Robert Towne star in The Roger Corman Puerto Rico Trilogy: Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961), in which American crook Renzo Capetto (Carbone) decides to kill inept boat crew members and blame their deaths on […]

Jun, 26

Horror Express *** (1972, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas, Alberto de Mendoza, Helga Liné, Silvia Tortosa ) – Classic Movie Review 3,778

Eugenio Martin’s Spanish-British 1972 thriller film Horror Express is an enjoyable express ride down the track of terror, in a tale jam packed with enough incidents for half a dozen regular horror films. Director Eugenio […]

May, 28

Return of the Ape Man *** (1944, Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 3749

Director Philip Rosen’s 1944 Monogram studios horror movie is an entertaining follow-up to 1943’s The Ape Man, in which scientists Professor Dexter (Bela Lugosi) and Professor John Gilmore (John Carradine) go on an Arctic expedition and try to […]

May, 23

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein ** (Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton, Gary Conway) – Classic Movie Review 3697

Whit Bissell returns as a different character in director Herbert L Strock’s pretty dreadful 1958 follow-up to I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), with the acting, writing and direction all over the place. This American International Pictures […]

May, 11

Jabberwocky **** (1977, Michael Palin, Max Wall, Harry H Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Deborah Fallender, Warren Mitchell, Rodney Bewes, Bernard Bresslaw, Gorden Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 3536

Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s delicious 1977 fantasy adventure comedy proves ideal material for him, with its playful nods to Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem Jabberwocky and a hint of Monty Python surreal lunacy. At the heart of its […]

Apr, 06

10 Cloverfield Lane **** (2016, John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr) – Movie Review

I do love a horror movie that delivers. I’ve been looking for one for ages and ages – and, finally, this is it! None of your, oh that dripping water might be scary, those woods […]

Mar, 14

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