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White Zombie (1932) starring Béla Lugosi as the evil voodoo master Murder Legendre is the very first zombie movie, introducing the classic image of a person turned into a mind‑less, enslaved zombie by a voodoo potion. Director […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s creaky, unenthusiastic, forgotten 1957 romantic drama Band of Angels stars Clark Gable as handsome but shady Louisiana plantation owner Hamish Bond and Yvonne De Carlo as privileged young southern belle Amantha Starr […]
Delmer Daves, Troy Donahue, Max Steiner and Harry Stradling Sr all reunite after their 1959 success with A Summer Place for the enjoyably overwrought 1961 romantic drama film Parrish. Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves, star Troy Donahue, […]
Producer-director Sydney Pollack’s deliriously plush and gorgeous-looking 1985 real-life romantic drama stars beautiful people Meryl Streep and Robert Redford as Danish baroness, plantation owner Karen Blixen and free-spirited big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton, who fall […]
‘Even my agony was a kind of joy!’, yells the great Bette Davis, who sins, kills, lies, cheats and publicly humiliates her forgiving husband Herbert Marshall in director William Wyler’s powerhouse, overwhelmingly haunting 1940 film […]
The 1964 follow-up movie Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte is less iconic but perhaps an even smarter mystery horror thriller film, with Bette Davis returning triumphantly from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Director Robert Aldrich’s […]
Director Neil Jordan’s commanding, all-embracing 1994 romantic vampire movie Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s 1976 bestselling novel, is a dark, swirling homoerotic meditation on love, death and the hereafter. Along with Dracula […]