The Haunted Palace (1963) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
After five proper Poe adaptations and one semi-improvised riff (The Terror, 1963), Roger Corman’s epochal series of colour AIP horror ...
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Director Guy Ritchie and his five (!) credited screenwriters threatened to put a lot of noses out of joint by ...
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Reap the Wild Wind (1942) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Moral and emotional nuance. Intricate characterisation. An ambiguous ideal of masculinity and a revolutionary woman’s place in a man’s field ...
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The Most Dangerous Game (1932) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Ernest Schoedsack and Merian Cooper’s companion piece to their epochal King Kong, shot on many of the same sets and ...
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The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The other British studio to specialise in Horror in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Amicus, could never quite offer ...
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Premature Burial (1961) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Long dismissed as the problem child of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, chiefly because it lacked Vincent Price, Premature ...
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The Letter (1940) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. .Amidst the notable run of films that starred Bette Davis in the late ‘30s and early ‘40s – works ...
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It Came From Outer Space (1953) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
I had seen this splendid sci-fi/noir film only once in my youth, but certain scenes had burnt themselves into my ...
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