editor-187-980918
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When I was in 7th grade (many light years ago in a galaxy far, far away), the schools used to show movies on Saturday on 16mm in the cafeteria and they charged like 25 cents to get in. It was a cheap way to see a lot of different movies and this was one of them.
We also saw things like "Earth v. The Flying Saucers" (one of Ray Harryhausen's wonderful magic tricks with stop motion animation), and Abbot & Costello Meet Dracula and Frankenstein series of movies. "Ch...Chh...Chip!!!"
I guess my generation was a bit more naive than today's is because this one scared the pants off me (particularly the final segment which was taken from the Edgar Allen Poe tale; "The Strange Case of Msr. Valdemar").
My parents had dropped me off at the movie and some of my friend's parents took me because my parents had gone out, so I was home all alone.
Have you ever had a case of the crawling creepies? Between the experience of the movie and the 8 hours of being home alone, it burned this memory into my brain that won't ever go away, but the strange thing is that despite excellent acting, a great adaptation of Poe's short stories and great direction by the King of nickel horror films, Roger Corman, I never saw this film again until I tripped across a copy of it on DVD on Amazon.
As I have often found with films that made a huge impression on me in my younger years, I expected to be disappointed but I was surprised to be caught up in the narrative and acting of all the people involved in the project. It's impossible to hate Peter Lorre, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone and Roger Corman can definitely make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
This movie helped to launch a lifelong love of Edgar Allen Poe and other writers of horror bent fiction--but not the slasher flicks or needless and gratuitous sex and blood movies of today.
If you want a quality piece of horror cinema then go see Dracula with Bela Lagosa, or Frankenstein with Boris Karloff, or even The Fly with Vincent Price.
If you're not interested then this review won't mean much to you anyway so you can just breeze by to the next one and no hard feelings.
We also saw things like "Earth v. The Flying Saucers" (one of Ray Harryhausen's wonderful magic tricks with stop motion animation), and Abbot & Costello Meet Dracula and Frankenstein series of movies. "Ch...Chh...Chip!!!"
I guess my generation was a bit more naive than today's is because this one scared the pants off me (particularly the final segment which was taken from the Edgar Allen Poe tale; "The Strange Case of Msr. Valdemar").
My parents had dropped me off at the movie and some of my friend's parents took me because my parents had gone out, so I was home all alone.
Have you ever had a case of the crawling creepies? Between the experience of the movie and the 8 hours of being home alone, it burned this memory into my brain that won't ever go away, but the strange thing is that despite excellent acting, a great adaptation of Poe's short stories and great direction by the King of nickel horror films, Roger Corman, I never saw this film again until I tripped across a copy of it on DVD on Amazon.
As I have often found with films that made a huge impression on me in my younger years, I expected to be disappointed but I was surprised to be caught up in the narrative and acting of all the people involved in the project. It's impossible to hate Peter Lorre, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone and Roger Corman can definitely make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
This movie helped to launch a lifelong love of Edgar Allen Poe and other writers of horror bent fiction--but not the slasher flicks or needless and gratuitous sex and blood movies of today.
If you want a quality piece of horror cinema then go see Dracula with Bela Lagosa, or Frankenstein with Boris Karloff, or even The Fly with Vincent Price.
If you're not interested then this review won't mean much to you anyway so you can just breeze by to the next one and no hard feelings.
