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Director Fletcher Markle’s 1951 MGM black and white Gothic noir thriller The Man with a Cloak is a sleekly made, very unusual and involving 19th-century Manhattan murder mystery propelled along with an excellent cast, including […]
Director Roger Corman’s fine 1963 chiller once again stars Vincent Price in the fourth in Corman’s cycle of eight films featuring connections with Edgar Allan Poe stories, released by American International Pictures. This time Price […]
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 […]
Shot in England and released in 1964, The Tomb of Ligeia, the final film in director Roger Corman’s cycle of eight Edgar Allan Poe-inspired movies (begun with House of Usher in 1960) is a creepily […]