Thanks to filmmaker Roger Corman, actor Vincent Price became almost synonymous with American author Edgar Allan Poe – starring in several successful films based on Poe’s works – but it was this connection that American International Pictures hoped to capitalize on when they produced City Under the Sea,
Tag: Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Core (2003) – Review
A group travelling to the centre of the Earth is certainly nothing new, Jules Verne tackled such a topic back in 1864 and we’ve seen film adaptations of his novel ever since, but director Jon Amiel took such a well-worn premise into the disaster movie genre in a film that’s about as scientifically accurate as…
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) – Review
One thing should be made perfectly clear; Brendan Fraser is no James Mason, there, I said it and will stand by that undeniable fact to the end of time. The classic Jules Verne adventure tale of man’s Journey to the Center of the Earth was first adapted to the big screen back in 1959, with…
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) – Review
With the release of his novel Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864 author Jules Verne broke new ground in the area of “Subterranean fiction” a genre that dates back as early Dante’s The Devine Comedy where the narrator enters a vast cavern to travel through the center of the Earth and out…