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Showing posts with label Vincent Price. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vincent Price. Show all posts
Saturday, 18 October 2025

The Haunted Palace (1963)

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 "One becomes accustomed to the darkness here." Not many films have been made adapting the works of H.P. Lovecraft, writer of cult...
Saturday, 1 October 2022

The Raven (1963)

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 "But you'd be kiled!" "I do hope not..." I haven't checked how many of Roger Corman's Poe films I've se...
Friday, 23 September 2022

The Oblong Box (1969)

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 "We have knowledge of things you know nothing of..." This film is an odd yet enjoyable beast. It's an adaptation of an Edgar ...
Saturday, 25 September 2021

Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)

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 "What is that?" "Sounds like a lot of monks exploding." This isn't Monty Python . Let's make that clear. It...
Saturday, 6 March 2021

Diary of a Madman (1963)

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 "Considering your endless studies of the criminal mind..." You know when you start watching a film expecting a B movie, despite t...
Sunday, 2 August 2020

Laura (1944)

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“Murder is my favourite crime.” As one would expect of a famous film noir from the heyday of the genre, this film is magnificent, indeed c...
Tuesday, 7 July 2020

Batman: The Ogg Couple

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"But this isn't exactly woman's work." This episode is a very odd beast here, at this point of the season. I suspect it ...
Thursday, 11 June 2020

Batman: How to Hatch a Dinosaur

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"Think they can crack it, Commissioner?" This second episode begins with a threat to undermine Egghead as much as the previous e...
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Batman: The Ogg and I

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"Yes, the aroma is unmistakeable." Oh dear. Another episode wth far too much going on to have enough fun, I'm afraid; it...
Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Batman: An Egg Grows in Gotham & The Yegg Foes in Gotham

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An Egg Grows in Gotham "All the King's horses and all the King's men won't be able to put you together again!" Thi...
Sunday, 29 September 2019

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

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“You’re freaks, all of you!” I never did read Richard Matheson’s novel, or any of the other film adaptations, which made me pleasantly u...
Saturday, 15 June 2019

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

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"Each man creates his own God for himself, his own Heaven, his own Hell." I'd seen and blogged a couple of Roger Corman’s ...
Sunday, 19 May 2019

Scream and Scream Again! (1970)

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“That bloody chicken wasn’t killed- it died of old age!”  This is an odd film, not at all what the marketing, title and poster lead us t...
Tuesday, 6 February 2018

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

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"I haven't poisoned it..." "It's always good to know that." SPOILERS Well, that was very good indeed, an...
Monday, 13 March 2017

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

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"Do you know where you are, Bartolome? I'll tell you where you are. You are about to enter Hell, Bartolome, HELL!... The netherworl...
Monday, 31 October 2016

Theatre of Blood (1973)

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"Critics all make errors. We're only human." "An opinion I find myself incapable of sharing!" Before I'd e...
Monday, 9 November 2015

Witchfinder General (1968)

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"They swim! The mark of Satan is upon them! They must hang!" It's clear why this film by Michael Reeves, who sadly died ...
Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

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"What kind of fiend are you?" "The kind that wins, my friend." What a disappointing sequel, especially as The ...
Sunday, 3 March 2013

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

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“Drop your weapons!” Finally getting to see this film, after so many years, was an interesting pop culture experience: althou...
Friday, 30 December 2011

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

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“A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon. Words fail me, gentlemen.” This is...
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