Derek Winnert

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Child’s Play 2 * (1990, Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, voice of Brad Dourif) – Classic Movie Review 8620

Little lad Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) and Chucky the Killer Doll are back for director John Lafia’s 1990 horror sequel Child’s Play 2, a foolish, gruesome follow-up to the sharp 1988 chiller Child’s Play. This […]

Jun, 21

Moss Rose *** (1947, Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, Rhys Williams, George Zucco, Patricia Medina) – Classic Movie Review 8510

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1947 Moss Rose stars Victor Mature in a smooth, old-style murder melodrama, set in Hollywood’s usual idea of old foggy London, in which he plays Michael Drego, who is suspected of killing a […]

May, 28

Pretty Maids All in a Row *** (1971, Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 8495

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry produced and wrote the screenplay for director Roger Vadim’s weird but watchable 1971 black comedy-thriller Pretty Maids All in a Row, offering a strange-brew mélange of laughs, sex and violence. […]

May, 25

Shocker *** (1989, Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi, John Tesh, Cami Cooper, Heather Langenkamp) – Classic Movie Review 8458

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1989 horror thriller movie Shocker is an inventive, frightening film, with an eerie atmosphere, a truly evil villain and superb special effects. It stars Michael Murphy, Peter Berg and Mitch Pileggi. A […]

May, 11

The Frighteners *** (1996, Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson) – Classic Movie Review 8418

Director Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural black comedy horror thriller The Frighteners, in the style of Beetlejuice complete with a Danny Elfman score, is poundingly pacey, reasonably scary and original enough, but, when the brilliant special […]

May, 01

He Knows You’re Alone ** (1980, Don Scardino, Caitlin O’Heaney, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Lewis Arlt, James Rebhorn, Tom Hanks) – Classic Movie Review 8363

Director Armand Mastroianni’s 1980 low budget horror thriller He Knows You’re Alone is a cheap regulation slasher movie about the usual serial killer monster (Tom Rolfing) going after young women with a knife, as one […]

Apr, 15

Maniac Cop 2 *** (1990, Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner) – Classic Movie Review 8300

Director William Lustig’s and writer Larry Cohen’s 1990 Maniac Cop 2 is a cheaper-looking and even more exploitative-seeming sequel to their 1988 horror thriller Maniac Cop, with a welter of violence and bad black humour […]

Mar, 26

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