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Director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s second sound film, the 1943 black and white Danish drama Day of Wrath [Vredens Dag], is a formally constructed tableau (with images based on 17th-century Dutch paintings) studying suspicion, witchcraft, a […]
Showman producer-director William Castle’s 1961 horror mystery thriller Mr Sardonicus stars Ronald Lewis, Guy Rolfe, Audrey Dalton and Oscar Homolka, and is an effective and entertaining chiller in which a doctor gets a mysterious invitation […]
Director Charles Lamont’s 1947 Technicolor trifle Slave Girl tells an entertainingly silly action adventure tale (with weedy added humour when the Universal studio saw what a risible movie the original Victorian-set historical adventure story had […]
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 great Thirties fright team of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff are happily re-paired for the highly estimable 1935 Universal Studios horror item The Raven, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. Director Lew Landers re-assembles […]
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