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Full Moon High *** (1981, Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Ed McMahon) – Classic Movie Review 9469

Writer-producer-director Larry Cohen’s goofy, lively and engaging 1981 horror spoof Full Moon High has a similar plot to the later Teen Wolf (1985) in its story about a school kid (Adam Arkin) who turns into […]

Mar, 06

The NeverEnding Story [Die Unendliche Geschichte] **** (1984, Barret Oliver, Gerald McRaney, Moses Gunn, Patricia Hayes, Noah Hathaway, Sydney Bromley, Tami Stronach) – Classic Movie Review 7164

Co-writer/ director Wolfgang Petersen’s well-crafted 1984 West German Eighties children’s classic, based on the novel by Michael Ende, stars Barret Oliver as Bastian, a bullied young lad who gets a magical book and is whisked […]

Jun, 14

Legend of the Werewolf ** (1975, Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith, Roy Castle David Rintoul) – Classic Movie Review 6208

Director Freddie Francis’s moderate British 1975 horror movie stars Peter Cushing as the police surgeon/ coroner Professor Paul, a lycanthrope expert who turns detective and follows the werewolf trail of grisly murders in 19th century France […]

Nov, 08

The Howling ***½ (1981, Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Kevin McCarthy, Slim Pickens, Christopher Stone, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 5713

Dee Wallace stars as telly newshound Karen White who recuperates in the wrong place after a rabid attack in a porn cinema – at a Californian hippy community, where of course they are all howling […]

Jul, 05

The Mad Monster ** (1942, Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Glenn Strange, Anne Nagel) – Classic Movie Review 5,583

George Zucco camps it up entertainingly as Dr Cameron, the mad scientist plotting to kill his colleagues with a formula that transforms his gardener into a murderous wolfman, in the 1942 B-movie horror film The […]

Jun, 11

How to Make a Monster ** (1958, Robert H Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, John Ashley) – Classic Movie Review 4998

‘Werewolf, meet Frankenstein. Shake hands and come out snarling.’ Director Herbert L Strock’s amusing, odd and fairly inventive 1958 horror movie stars Robert H Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway as Tony Mantell (Teenage Frankenstein) and Gary […]

Feb, 05

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans *** (2009, Rhona Mitra, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston) – Classic Movie Review 4908

The bad news is there’s no Kate Beckinsale’s Selene (except in a cameo) or Scott Speedman’s Michael Corvin – and series segments without the original star(s) are notoriously difficult to make or enjoy. But the […]

Jan, 19

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