Tag: Vincent Price

It was a strange invitation from a man known to be an eccentric though personally unknown to each of his guests, millionaire Frederick Loren hosting an overnight party

The show must always go on for hard working entertainer Elvira and her sturdy maidservant Zou Zou, on the road to Paris to take part in a titillating

A late night walk for the horror writer R Chetwynd-Hayes, an act of vanity which opens a vein, admiring a book shop which features a prominent window display

Based upon the novel by Vera Caspary, the opening line of director Otto Premiger’s 1944 adaptation of Laura sets up not only the premise but the style which

The great Vincent Price had a long and colourful career, much of it in the horror genre, from 1953’s House of Wax, one of the first colour 3D

Having released several films from the archives of Roger Corman over the last year, it is pleasing that Arrow Films have chosen one of the last from their

Perhaps one of the best known of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, certainly during his lifetime, The Raven was a poem first published in January 1845. The

It was in 1960 that producer and director Roger Corman began his long cinematic affair with Edgar Allan Poe; there had been ups and downs, and there had

When is a Poe not a Poe? Released in 1963, The Haunted Palace was positioned by American International Pictures as the fifth in the series of successful adaptations

It opens with a sombre funeral, but as soon as the mourners depart Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) and his assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre) of Hinchley and Trumbull’s