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Journey Into Fear (1975) | Was this remake of Eric Ambler’s classic thriller novel a recipe for disaster?

The 1975 political thriller Journey into Fear was an all-star contemporary adaptation of Eric Ambler’s seminal 1940 novel of the same name. A flop at the box office, it had Continue Reading

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Posted On : 30th October 2022 Published By : The Curator
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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

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Posted On : 19th May 2020 Published By : The Curator
The Bat (1959)
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The Bat (1959) | When it flies, someone dies!

1959’s The Bat is a remake of the hugely-successful 1920 haunted house play (which grossed over US$9million during its two-year run) by Mary Roberts Rinehart, drawn from her 1908 book Continue Reading

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Posted On : 9th August 2017 Published By : The Curator
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While the City Sleeps (1956) | When Vincent Price turned press tycoon in Fritz Lang’s most underrated movie

A killer is on the loose and smarmy media tycoon Vincent Price makes catching him the passport to a key job in his organisation… Ambitious rivals George Sanders and Thomas Continue Reading

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Posted On : 16th May 2017 Published By : The Curator
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House of 1000 Dolls (1967) | Undressing the tawdry Vincent Price Euro thriller

The dolls in this 1967 Spain/German AIP exploitation story about modern-day white slavery are a group of lingerie-clad beauties – 12 or so, not 1000 – being held captive in Continue Reading

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Posted On : 13th March 2017 Published By : The Curator
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
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19 Things You Must Know About Scream and Scream Again

‘Composite beings, half-synthetic, half-human transplant. They live, they kill, but they cannot die. Only boiling acid will dissolve them, halt their unearthly lust.’ So went the promotional taglines on the Continue Reading

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Posted On : 7th February 2017 Published By : The Curator
The Bribe (1949)
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The Bribe (1949) | Did you know Vincent Price’s pyrotechnic film noir became a Steve Martin spoof?

Being a master of light-hearted musicals and comedies for MGM throughout the 1930s, director Robert Leonard was a bizarre choice for the studio’s 1949 thriller The Bribe, which Carl Reiner’s Continue Reading

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Posted On : 3rd February 2017 Published By : The Curator

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