The Masque Of The Red Death is arguably the best of the Edgar Allen Poe adaptations that Roger Corman made with Vincent Price in the 60s. The film is the last but one of 8 Poe adaptations Corman directed. It was made in the UK, and was stylishly shot in color by cinematographer (and later…
Scream And Scream Again
This 1970 British horror movie is one that promises rather more than it delivers. It was the first film which included all three of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in its cast. Its really Price’s movie though. He plays a mad scientist, who creates ‘composites’ from body parts (and is revealed to be…
Theatre Of Blood
Theatre Of Blood is my all-time favourite horror comedy and my favourite Vincent Price movie by a mile. The movie has a delightfully vicious premise. Price (so often over the top) is perfect as the hammy stage actor humiliated after being denied a best actor gong by the Critic’s Circle. Presumed dead from suicide, he…
The Pit and the Pendulum / The Premature Burial
This is a pair of Belgian posters for two of the series of loose Edgar Allen Poe adaptations that legendary producer Roger Corman directed in the 60s. These followed on the success of Corman’s House Of Usher adaptation for American International Pictures. All starred Vincent Price, who is the one in the cowl in…