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
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
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
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
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