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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 […]
Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star together for the first time in AIP’s tasty, effective 1969 gothic shocker horror film The Oblong Box. Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star together for the first time in […]
Karl Malden stars in the engagingly shambolic 1954 American horror mystery movie Phantom of the Rue Morgue, based on Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Director Roy Del Ruth’s […]
George C Scott stars as detective Auguste Dupin, who comes out of retirement to help his daughter Claire (Rebecca De Mornay)’s fiancé Phillipe Huron (Val Kilmer) prove that he did not commit a series of […]
Universal Pictures’ vintage 1932 horror movie Murders in the Rue Morgue stars Dracula icon Bela Lugosi as Dr Mirakle, his first role as a mad doctor or scientist. ‘Innocent Beauty – this was her wedding […]
This spoofy 1963 gothic fantasy horror movie is one of the best of director Roger Corman’s several Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, supposedly inspired by the same Poe poem that produced the 1935 version of The Raven. […]
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 […]