In this chapter we have the next two Poe movies from Roger Corman, which each took a different direction. Tales of Terror (1962) was an anthology film featuring three different Poe stories, plus guest stars Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. While The Raven (1963) was a comedy horror tale of feuding sorcerers which saw Vincent Price plotting magical skulduggery with Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson!
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Sunday, 23 March 2025
HYPNOGORIA 281 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part V
Sunday, 13 October 2024
HYPNOGORIA 270 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part II
In this episode we detail how Roger Corman made his first adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe, The House of Usher, starring Vincent Price, and the impact it had when unleashed upon the world in 1960!
Sunday, 6 October 2024
HYPNOGORIA 269 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part I
A new series begins - devoted to the cycle of Edgar Allan Poe films directed by Roger Corman for AIP back in the 1960s. In this first chapter, we explore the origins of this series of classic movies, tracing the road that led to the House of Usher!
Saturday, 4 July 2015
HYPNOGORIA 15 - A Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee Part III
Mr Jim Moon continues his journey through the long career of Sir Christopher Lee, exploring is most productive period the 1970s, where he made numerous films for Hammer, Amicus, and AIP, and worked with film-makers such as Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, Jess Franco and Harry Alan Towers. We sample the psycho-chiller Scream of Fear (1961), investigate the case of Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), go marauding with the Devil Ship Pirates (1964), dodge The Gorgon (1964), gaze into the Face of Fu Manchu (1965), visit Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965), meet Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966), and find out what's inside the The Oblong Box (1969). And of course we run into Count Dracula many many times...
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Friday, 12 September 2014
HYPNOGORIA 002 - Horror Double Bills Part II
In the second part of our investigations of horror double bills, Mr Jim Moon details the second wave of the Universal Monsters, the chillers from RKO conjured up by Val Lewton, charts the building of the Hammer house of horrors, takes a spin through the history of the drive-in, and examines the double trouble that was AIP and Roger Corman!
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Sunday, 21 July 2013
HYPNOBOBS 121 - A Tribute to Richard Matheson Part II
In the second part of our tribute to the late great Richard Matheson, Mr Jim Moon details what the legendary author was up to in the 1960s, discussing his work at AIP such as the Roger Corman Poe adaptations, British chiller Night of the Eagle (1962) and his work for Hammer - the psychochiller Fanatic (1965) and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out (1968)
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