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The Ring [Ringu] **** (1998, Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi) – Classic Movie Review 2294

Director Hideo Nakata’s 1998 seminal Japanese horror movie Ringu centres on an infamous mysterious killer videotape that is causing everyone who views it to die within a week. While probing the death of her friend’s […]

Mar, 21

The Outsiders ***** (1983, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, C Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1519

In 1983, director Francis Ford Coppola conjures up a dream cast for his first of his two adaptations of an S E Hinton classic novel about youth. It is set in 1966 and follows the disturbed, […]

Aug, 04

The Old Dark House ****½ (1932, Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart) – Classic Movie Review 1036

Ernest Thesiger: ‘My sister was on the point of arranging these flowers’ (chucks them in the fire). James Whale’s brilliant, renowned and honoured 1932 old dark comedy chiller film The Old Dark House is adapted […]

Apr, 01

Wake in Fright **** (1970, Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, John Meillon) – Classic Movie Review 868

Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1970 Aussie movie is an extremely atmospheric, brutal-toned, imaginatively made and gripping psychological chiller. Gary Bond stars as a shy, educated English teacher John Grant, who soon finds himself in a whole lot […]

Mar, 05

Carrie ** (2013, Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Ansel Elgort, Gabriella Wilde) – Movie Review

At sweet 16, Chloë Grace Moretz is attractive, confident and tough, a charismatic little spitfire. Carrie White, the character she’s playing in this new take on Brian De Palma’s classic Carrie is plain, shy, tormented […]

Nov, 28

Carrie ***** (1976, Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, John Travolta) – Classic Movie Review 302

Brian De Palma’s brilliant original 1976 horror thriller film Carrie includes an excellent role as Carrie’s puritanical mother for the perennially undervalued Piper Laurie, who was Oscar nominated as Best Supporting Actress ‘If you’ve got […]

Oct, 19

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles ***** (1994, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Stephen Rea, Kirsten Dunst, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 88

Director Neil Jordan’s commanding, all-embracing 1994 romantic vampire movie Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s 1976 bestselling novel, is a dark, swirling homoerotic meditation on love, death and the hereafter. Along with Dracula […]

Jul, 25

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