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Director Stephen Frears’s provocative 1987 biopic is a cleverly written, powerfully acted biography of the brilliant Sixties gay playwright Joe Orton. It was advertised as ‘From the director of My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘They shared […]
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1971 Hammer horror movie is the third of three Hammer Films adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, following The Ugly Duckling (1959) […]
Vincent Price stars in three Edgar Allan Poe tales, retold by director Roger Corman in 1962 in his own stylish, baroque gothic horror way. Price also introduced all three sequences, which took just three weeks to film. It […]
Director Roger Corman’s highly stylish and imaginatively achieved 1964 horror movie is his seventh adaptation of an 1842 Edgar Allan Poe short story (with another, Hop-Frog, as a sub-plot). A second sub-plot comes from Torture by Hope […]
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 […]
The 1960 horror film House of Usher is the first and perhaps best of Roger Corman’s eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Vincent Price is on rousing form as the albino Roderick Usher, desperately trying to […]
Writer-director Bob Kelljan’s 1970 horror movie Count Yorga, Vampire is a contemporary version of the Dracula tale, neatly relocated to Los Angeles. Robert Quarry stars as the visiting Count Yorga who pesters the life out […]