Derek Winnert

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Dead Again ½ (1991, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Robin Williams, Derek Jacobi, Hanna Schygulla, Campbell Scott, Wayne Knight) – Classic Movie Review 4401

Kenneth Branagh comes the most awful cropper as director-star of this appalling 1991 romantic fantasy neo noir mystery thriller that intends to tease playfully but ends up just being infuriating. Dead in the water, it was dead […]

Sep, 24

Devil Bat’s Daughter ** (1946, Rosemary La Planche, John James, Michael Hale, Nolan Leary) – Classic Movie Review 3736

Rosemary La Planche, the 1941 Miss America, stars as Nina, the daughter of Bela Lugosi’s now deceased vengeful inventor character Dr Paul Carruthers from 1940’s The Devil Bat. And this time a psychiatrist called Doctor Elliott […]

May, 22

Deliverance ***** (1972, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox) – Classic Movie Review 3595

Producer-director John Boorman’s disturbing and chilling but thrilling 1972 adventure nightmare suspense thriller with a message is one of the key films of its era and an influential game-changer for this kind of story. It […]

Apr, 21

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

Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb ***½ (1971, Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon, James Villiers, James Villiers, Hugh Burden, George Coulouris) – Classic Movie Review 3298

Director Seth Holt’s 1971 British chiller is an imaginatively handled, intelligently written, menacing, above-average late Hammer horror movie, based by talented screen-writer Christopher Wicking on a lesser-known Bram Stoker novel, Jewel of the Seven Stars. The […]

Jan, 30

The Skull *** (1965, Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 3104

Director Freddie Francis’s 1965 Amicus horror thriller stars Peter Cushing as a professor who wants to acquire the Marquis de Sade’s skull from an eccentric dealer (Patrick Wymark). Christopher Lee also stars as Cushing’s antiquarian […]

Nov, 28

Freeway * (1996, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Bokeem Woodbine) – Classic Movie Review 2570

Writer-director Matthew Bright’s exploitative, really nasty 1996 revenge thriller stars Reese Witherspoon as abused juvenile delinquent teenager Vanessa Lutz, who is travelling to her grandmother’s trailer park home on the run from a social worker. […]

Jun, 08

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