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One of the best Corman/Price Poe films. A man arrives at an old,deteriorating mansion to visit his fiance, but her odd brother tries to run him off. The man finally gets inside and sees his betrothed, but it's obvious something is going on. Everyone and everything in the house seems ill and dying, but her brother seems willing to do whatever it takes to keep his sister from leaving the ancestral family home.

Many of the themes (and actors and actual footage) are reused by Corman in subsequent Price films, but this is one of the best. Good acting, good cast, good story (albeit unfaithful to the Poe story,) very suspenseful and creepy. 4.5 stars

A crackpot bee expert who becomes obsessed with experimenting with wasps in an attempt to create a serum that stops and even reverses the aging process of meets the aging head of an ailing cosmetics company. That's when things get interesting.

The film is pretty good, a good story with a moral lesson, very good acting, some suspense, and you get 2 prime Corman actresses, Susan Cabot AND Barboura Morris PLUS the stunningly gorgeous Lynn Cartwright! But... as is often the case, a pathetic "monster." But overall, a great flick.

Classic Corman tactic of combining genres. Here we have his nautical horror (sharks,) his on-the-run-from-Johnny-Law (a man who accidentally killed another man,) and sexploitation (girls stuck on a Hawaiian isle with no men.)

Neither the story nor the acting were all that great. The setting was beautiful, and Corman always seemed to do great underwater shooting despite the tight budget and given the technology of the day. The girls were ok, there was a little suspense. Overall, probably one of my least favorite Corman films.