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The Legend of Hell House *** (1973, Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt) – Classic Movie Review 3,096

The sinister 1973 British horror movie The Legend of Hell House stars Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin and Roddy McDowall as a quartet who agree to spend the week in Hell House to see […]

Nov, 25

Somewhere in Time **** (1980, Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin) – Classic Movie Review 3070

Director Jeannot Szwarc’s gorgeous, haunting, heart-aching 1980 sci-fi fantasy romance stars Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier, a young Chicago playwright who goes to the premiere of his new play. When an old lady (Susan French) […]

Nov, 20

Tales of Terror *** (1962, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage) – Classic Movie Review 2848

Vincent Price stars in three Edgar Allan Poe tales, retold by director Roger Corman in 1962 in his own stylish, baroque gothic horror way. Price also introduced all three sequences, which took just three weeks to film. It […]

Aug, 24

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

The Raven **** (1963, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 2678

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. […]

Jul, 07

Duel **** (1971, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 2608

A masterpiece of fear and tension, Steven Spielberg’s third TV film is so powerful that it won a cinema release in 1971 and gave him his break in the movies. It aired as a hit […]

Jun, 15

The Devil Rides Out **** (1968, Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Patrick Mower, Paul Eddington, Sarah Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 1,938

Director Terence Fisher’s thrilling and scary 1968 Hammer Films occult horror film The Devil Rides Out stars Christopher Lee, who relishes being cast against type as the hero Duc de Richleau, and Charles Gray as […]

Dec, 09

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