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
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
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
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
Bagdad (1949) | The picture of 1001 pleasures! …1001 adventures! …1001 delights!
A Bedouin sheikh’s daughter (MaureenO¹Hara) returns to Bagdad after being educated in London to find her father dead and his palace looted. A local prince (Paul Christian) is suspected of Continue Reading
The Tingler (1959) | Scream for your lives! 18 fun facts about William Castle’s gimmick-laden masterpiece
Following the success of House on Haunted Hill in February 1959, maverick US producer/director William Castle engaged Vincent Price once for a second time in The Tingler. Price plays pathologist/scientist Continue Reading