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Tag Archives: Edgar Allan Poe
BOUGHT ON BLU: Lugosi and friends
It began with me buying one Bela Lugosi vampire film and one Ed Wood movie starring Lugosi, and that spiraled into me buying a 4-disc set of Universal films starring Lugosi and Boris Karloff…which led to me buying one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bela Lugosi, Black Friday, Boris Karloff, Bride of the Monster, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark of the Vampire, The Black Cat, The Black Sleep, The Invisible Ray, The Raven
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Four flicks taking us from 79 through 90
More scrounging around has scored me three more flicks to add to my collection, and one I checked out thanks to a tip from a follower of my site. So let’s get into them. THE MEATEATER (aka: Blood Theatre) (1979) … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday I Read the Book: Literary Thoughts, Living in the 80s - forever, Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, Haunting Fear, Hell High, slashers, supernatural, The Majorettes, The Meateater
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Doing a horror threesome with Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele was pretty much the female Vincent Price of the 1960s. She was a serial scream queen! So here’s a quick look at three of her flicks from the mid-60s. CASTLE OF BLOOD (1964) Castle of Blood is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Castle of Blood, Edgar Allan Poe, ghosts, Nightmare Castle, possession, supernatural, The She-Beast, witches
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Vincent Price meets the horror biggies: Poe, Corman, Matheson, Lovecraft
The House on Haunted Hill will forever remain my favorite Vincent Price horror flick, followed closely by The Tingler (and a few others). But in the 1960s, when he wasn’t working with William Castle (I blog about those films here), … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, horror anthology, House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, slashers, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace, The Masque of the Red Death, The Oblong Box, The Raven, The Tomb of Legeia, Vincent Price
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The dark and trippy world of Poe re-imagined
The indie horror anthology Tales of Poe comes to us from indie horror directors Bart Mastronardi (Vindication, which I blog about here) and Alan Rowe Kelly (whose movies I cover here). Not only do they give two of Poe’s stories … Continue reading
A mish-mosh from a midnight movie collection
I scored another 8-pack DVD collection of “midnight horror” because I wanted the flick Office Killer and it was cheaper to get it with 7 other movies than to get it as a singe disc. Of course, I already had … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Times & Television Schedules - Staying Entertained, Scared Silly - Horror Comedy, The Evil of the Thriller - Everything Horror
Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, horror comedy, Office Killer, slashers, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Mesmerist, The Shadow
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