Derek Winnert

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Day of Wrath ***** (1943, Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Sigrid Neiiendam) – Classic Movie Review 10,818

Director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s second sound film, the 1943 black and white Danish drama Day of Wrath [Vredens Dag], is a formally constructed tableau (with images based on 17th-century Dutch paintings) studying suspicion, witchcraft, a […]

Jan, 22

Mr Sardonicus *** (1961, Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oscar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff) – Classic Movie Review 10,389

Showman producer-director William Castle’s 1961 horror mystery thriller Mr Sardonicus stars Ronald Lewis, Guy Rolfe, Audrey Dalton and Oscar Homolka, and is an effective and entertaining chiller in which a doctor gets a mysterious invitation […]

Oct, 07

Slave Girl ** (1947, Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent, Broderick Crawford, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 9776

Director Charles Lamont’s 1947 Technicolor trifle Slave Girl tells an entertainingly silly action adventure tale (with weedy added humour when the Universal studio saw what a risible movie the original Victorian-set historical adventure story had […]

May, 16

The Pit and the Pendulum **** (1961, Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders) – Classic Movie Review 2845

The 1961 horror film The Pit and the Pendulum is directed by Roger Corman in Panavision and Pathécolor, and stars Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr and Luana Anders. It is notable for Corman’s experiments with camera work and cutting, Richard Matheson’s […]

Aug, 23

The Raven **** (1935, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Lester Matthews, Inez Courtney, Spencer Charters, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2677

The great Thirties fright team of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff are happily re-paired for the highly estimable 1935 Universal Studios horror item The Raven, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. Director Lew Landers re-assembles […]

Jul, 07

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