Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?, 1972.Directed by Curtis Harrington. Starring Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Michael Gothard, Judy Cornwell, Chloe Franks.SYNOPSIS:An insane and elderly widow lures two unsuspecting orphaned little children inside her mansion in a bizarre twist of the story of Hansel and Gretel.Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a title meant to […]
Movie Review – Cry of the City (1948)
Cry of the City, 1948Directed by Robert Siodmak. Starring Richard Conte, Victor Mature, Berry Kroeger, Shelley Winters and Debra Paget.SYNOPSIS:Adapted from the novel The Chair for Martin Rome by Henry Edward Helseth, the film tells the story of a charismatic criminal and his nemesis, Lieutenant Candella…Remember Barzini? The old-crone who was taken out on the steps of the New […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 2 – The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter, 1955.Directed by Charles Laughton. Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce.SYNOPSIS:Shortly before he is executed for murder, young John and Pearl Harper’s father makes the two swear to never reveal the location of the $10,000 he stole from his victims. The presence of hidden […]
