BLOW UP DOLLS

The first thing worth noting is that Bond parodies and rip-offs were always more successful in Europe than in the United States - not for no...

HOW TO STUFF A ROBOT BIKINI

I've been in a Vincent Price mood lately, and Turner Classic Movies just so happened to come along to scratch that particular itch for m...

YEAR OF BLOOD: AND HIS HEART WAS HARDENED

Hi, my Jewish friends! You didn't think I was going to leave y'all out of the vaguely-insulting fun, did you? Of course not, and her...

AN AIRY AND SPIRIT-LIFTING VISION MORE WILDLY DIVINE THAN THE PHANTASIES WHICH HOVERED ABOUT THE SLUMBERING SOULS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF DELOS

The last of the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations Roger Corman directed for American International Pictures - though by no means the last one that...

MUCH OF THE WANTON, MUCH OF THE BIZARRE, SOMETHING OF THE TERRIBLE, AND NOT A LITTLE OF THAT WHICH MIGHT HAVE EXCITED DISGUST

The seventh of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations for AIP, The Masque of the Red Death , opened four years and two days after th...

VAST FORMS, THAT MOVE FANTASTICALLY TO A DISCORDANT MELODY

"The Haunted Palace" is a great little poem, one of Edgar Allan Poe's all-time best pieces of verse. Emphasis on little . It...

HIS EYES HAVE ALL THE SEEMING OF A DEMON'S THAT IS DREAMING

It's a parlor game for 19th Century literature freaks and nothing but to speculate on such questions, but let us take a moment to muse u...

FROM THE THROATS OF THE DAMNED IN THEIR AGONY AND OF THE DEMONS THAT EXULT IN THE DAMNATION

As I mentioned, the third of the AIP/Roger Corman Poe movies, Premature Burial , was something of a failure - not a flop, for it's hard ...