Playhouse 90: Forbidden Area (1956)
The live US anthology series, Playhouse 90, premiered on 4 October 1956 with this 90-minute story directed by John Frankenheimer (who helmed 27 episodes), with Rod Serling adapting Pat Frank’s Continue Reading
Night Gallery: Class of ’99 and The Return of the Sorcerer
On 22 September 1971 and 24 September 1972, Vincent Price guest-starred in two episodes of Rod Serling’s classic anthology series, Night Gallery, entitled Class of 99 and The Return of Continue Reading
Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) | When Vincent spoofed the spy genre
Vincent Price stars as the nefarious Dr Goldfoot, who is plotting to ensnare the fortunes of the world’s wealthiest men with the aid of beautiful bikini-clad robots he manufactures in Continue Reading
Shock (1946) | When Vincent Price was first beseiged by fate
A psychologically distraught woman (Anabel Shaw) finds herself committed to a private sanitarium run by the man (Vincent Price) who she witnessed killing his wife with a candlestick. Will anyone Continue Reading
Climax! | When Vincent Price played it live in the 1950s anthology series
Climax! was an CBS anthology series that ran from 1954-1959, hosted by William Lundigan. It was broadcast live from the studios at CBS Television in Los Angeles, and featured many Continue Reading
The Mad Magician on Blu-ray
Produced on the back of the expected success of 1953’s House of Wax, The Mad Magician returned Vincent Price to the world of three-dimensional horror for a third time (Dangerous Continue Reading
Green Hell (1940) | Oh Brandy! Will we ever get out of this mess alive!
Deep in the Amazon jungle, archaeologist Dr Keith ‘Brandy’ Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr) leads a private expedition in search of Inca treasure. On finding an ancient temple, one of gold-seekers, Continue Reading
The Song of Bernadette (1943) | When Vincent went to Lourdes
‘The Song of Bernadette is reverent, spiritually forthright, dignified’Time Magazine ‘An absorbing, emotional and dramatic picturizationof Franz Werfel s novel’ Variety One of the rare Hollywood studio films to address Continue Reading
Dragonwyck gets a UK Blu-ray premiere release
The directorial debut of the Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Suddenly, Last Summer), Dragonwyck is a glorious melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama, and is now making its UK Continue Reading
Laura (1944) | Still the greatest noir of them all!
Nominated for four Oscars and winning one, this is the ultimate noir. Dark and mysterious, stylishly wicked and enticingly captivating, 1944’s Laura is a glamorous murder mystery and a tangled Continue Reading