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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York *** (1992, Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, John Heard) – Classic Movie Review 2,858

The 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York re-assembles the whole hit original 1990 team for Macaulay Culkin’s re-match with bumbling baddies Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. Director Chris Columbus’s hastily concocted 1992 […]

Aug, 29

The Mummy’s Hand *** (1940, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Cecil Kellaway, Peggy Moran, Tom Tyler, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 2816

‘The tomb of a thousand terrors!’ Director Christy Cabanne’s lusty 1940 American black-and-white horror sequel The Mummy’s Hand is only 67 minutes long but re-uses more than 10 minutes of footage from Universal Pictures’ The […]

Aug, 15

The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s *** (1960, Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Thorley Walters, Dennis Price, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2797

Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s less entertaining 1961 number three in the comedy film franchise brings back the hellish schoolgirls from Ronald Searle’s St Trinian’s cartoons, who now torch their school and are recruited for an Arab’s harem. It […]

Aug, 10

Blue Murder at St Trinian’s **** (1957, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim, Lionel Jeffries, Sabrina, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 2789

Alastair Sim returns as St Trinian’s headmistress Miss Millicent Frinton, though alas appears in only two scenes, put out of action tied up in the school belfry, so the English gym-slipped schoolgirls can head off for […]

Aug, 08

The Revenge of Frankenstein *** (1958, Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn) – Classic Movie Review 2778

Terence Fisher’s 1958 horror film sequel The Revenge of Frankenstein stars Peter Cushing as the bad Baron, Dr Victor Frankenstein, and it is up to Michael Gwynn to play the Monster. ‘TERROR will seize you! […]

Aug, 03

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed *** (1969, Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Simon Ward, Freddie Jones, George Pravda, Maxine Audley, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 2772

Director Terence Fisher’s 1969 Hammer Films horror movie sequel Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed brings back Peter Cushing as the bad and depraved Baron Frankenstein, who is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Baron Frankenstein arrives in […]

Aug, 02

The Curse of the Cat People **** (1944, Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter) – Classic Movie Review 2762

Co-writer/producer Val Lewton’s 1944 sequel to his 1943 Cat People is an eerie, melodramatic, film noir horror fantasy about a lonely child called Amy Reed (Ann Carter, aged six). She gets tangled up with an imaginary world inhabited […]

Jul, 31

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