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The Masque of the Red Death **** (1964, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, Patrick Magee, Nigel Green) – Classic Movie Review 2847

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 […]

Aug, 23

The Pit and the Pendulum **** (1961, Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders) – Classic Movie Review 2845

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 […]

Aug, 23

Twins of Evil ***½ (1971, Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson, Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, Kathleen Byron, Damien Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 2,780

Hammer Films’ 1971 horror movie Twins of Evil is splendid Gothic vampire stuff, done with unusual zest and style. The Collinson twins (and Playboy playmates) Mary and Madeleine star as the title duo of identical […]

Aug, 04

The Scars of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, Anouska Hempel, Patrick Troughton, Michael Gwynn) – Classic Movie Review 2779

A rubber bat creaks down a wire and dribbles ketchup from the corner of its mouth onto a skeleton in an open coffin, and this fades in and out on an image of Christopher Lee. […]

Aug, 04

Cul-De-Sac **** (1966, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 2548

Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran star as bumbling crooks on the lam in co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s startling, humorous and strange British black comedy shocker. The duo, one wounded and the other dying, take refuge at the Holy Island […]

Jun, 01

Beauty and the Beast ***** (1991, voices of Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Richard White) – Classic Movie Review 2216

Directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s 1991 animated feature is a milestone as the Walt Disney studio’s 30th cartoon and happily it proves among the best of its kind. It is an exhilarating movie, an outstanding, […]

Feb, 27

The Rocky Horror Picture Show **** (1975, Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 1,789

Co-writer and director Jim Sharman and creator Richard O’Brien’s incredibly kitsch and exuberant 1975 musical comedy horror movie parody The Rocky Horror Picture Show stars a super-slinky young Tim Curry, then just 29. Here he […]

Oct, 30

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