Roger Corman’s The Premature Burial is a morbidly elegant slice of Gothic terror, a film drenched in fog, obsession, and the soft echo of “Molly Malone.” The third of Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations—though notably the only one without Vincent Price—it trades sardonic grandeur for subdued melancholy. What results is an eerie and atmospheric exploration…
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The Ghost (1963) – Review
Riccardo Freda’s The Ghost is an elegant, gothic slice of Italian horror that manages to be both gloriously atmospheric and gloriously silly at the same time. Starring Barbara Steele in one of her many doomed-wife roles, the film dresses up jealousy, greed, and betrayal in velvet drapes and candlelit corridors. It’s the kind of movie…
She-Wolf of London (1946) – Review
After Henry Hull’s turn as a lycanthrope in Werewolf of London had resulted in a box office disappointment, it was Lon Chaney’s The Wolf Man that became Universal Pictures‘s default creature of fur and fangs. But in 1946 the studio released a werewolf movie that starred June Lockhart as a woman who believes that she…