The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
After filming six Poe adaptations in Hollywood, US director Roger Corman headed to the UK in late 1963 to make his penultimate picture in the cycle, The Masque of the 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
Get Smart: Is This Trip Necessary? | Would you believe it? Vincent Price was an agent for KAOS!
Is This Trip Necessary? was the 12th episode of the fifth and final season of Get Smart, which originally aired on 12 December 1969. It was written by Dale McRaven Continue Reading
Taboos of the World (1965) | It’s the picture that OUT-MONDO’S them all!!
Narrated by Vincent Price (English version) and Stefano Sibaldi (Italian version), this 86-minute travelogue, edited in the same shockumentary style of 1962’s Mondo Cane, was directed by Romolo Marcellini and Continue Reading
The Masque of the Red Death Original Soundtrack
Did you know the score to Roger Corman’s 1964 horror classic The Masque of the Red Death by British composer David Lee is available from Quartet Records. Here’s what they Continue Reading
House of Usher (1960) | Roger Corman’s Gothic classic looks absolutely stunning in HD
In this striking 1960 elaboration on Edgar Allan Poe’s 1839 short story, Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon) arrives at the crumbling New England mansion of the Usher family to seek out Continue Reading
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) | 20 Fun Facts about Roger Corman’s final Poe adaptation
American International Pictures’ Corman-Poe film cycle remains the finest interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s literary heritage on the big screen, and it reached its opus with 1965’s The Tomb of Continue Reading
The Trouble With Girls (1969) | When Vincent Price joined Elvis Presley’s travelling Chautauqua show
This period comedy drama starred Elvis Presley (in one of his final acting roles), several catchy songs (Signs of the Zodiac being my favourite) and a great supporting cast (including Continue Reading
The Last Man on Earth (1964) | 10 reasons to revisit the underrated sci-fi horror
‘Another day to live through… Is that all it has been since I inherited the world? Three years? Seems like a hundred million’ Did you know that The Last Man Continue Reading
The Original Da Vinci (1960) | When Vincent Price met Red Skelton’s Freddie the Freeloader
On 15 March 1960, Vincent Price guest starred on The Red Skelton Show in which Skelton’s alter-ego Freddie the Freeloader found an original DaVinci painting in the city dump. This Continue Reading