Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "voodoo"

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White Zombie **** (1932, Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn) – Classic Movie Review 4422

Director Victor Halperin’s haunting 1932 74-minute horror movie White Zombie is all too cheaply made and mostly poorly acted. But it is a vintage classic none the less thanks to its exotic sets, eerie atmosphere, strange […]

Sep, 27

Child’s Play ***½ (1988, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff) – Classic Movie Review 4144

Co-writer/ director Tom Holland’s disturbing, highly effective 1988 fantasy horror movie Child’s Play sees Brad Dourif as the dying serial killer Charles Lee Ray who gives his soul to Chucky the doll, a seemingly innocent […]

Aug, 08

Dr Terror’s House of Horrors *** (1965, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Max Adrian, Roy Castle) – Classic Movie Review 3115

Peter Cushing stars in Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965) as a mysterious fortune teller called Dr Terror who reads the tarot cards to tell the future of five fellow passengers aboard a British train. […]

Nov, 30

The Witches ** (1966, Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 3068

Director Cyril Frankel’s 1966 horror movie is a typical Hammer Films outing into the territory of black magic, the occult, voodoo and witchcraft. It features two effective performances – from a rather film-starry Joan Fontaine […]

Nov, 17

The Serpent and the Rainbow *** (1988, Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield) – Classic Movie Review 2872

Director Wes Craven tackles the darkly disturbing dreams of the undead in this creepy 1988 voodoo hokum carefully tailored for horror buffs. Bill Pullman stars as Dennis Alan, an anthropologist who goes to Haiti to investigate […]

Aug, 31

The House that Dripped Blood *** (1971, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott, Jon Pertwee, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, Joanna Lumley, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2842

Debut film director Peter Duffell’s effective 1971 four-segment Amicus compendium chiller, set around a murderous mansion, is written with knowing glee by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Denholm Elliott lead […]

Aug, 23

The Oblong Box *** (1969, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson, Hilary Dwyer, Peter Arne, Sally Geeson, Rupert Davies, Michael Balfour, Maxwell Shaw, Harry Baird) – Classic Movie Review 2832

Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star together for the first time in American International Pictures’ tasty, effective 1969 gothic shocker officially based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Premature Burial, but also combining ideas taken from […]

Aug, 19

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