Happy Halloween! This is the time of year when people celebrate the supernatural and ghoulish aspects of popular culture and national myths. I do my part by highlighting horror movies on Halloween night.
So far I have reviewed Nightmare Detective, Strange Circus, Shokuzai, POV: A Cursed Film Charisma, Don’t Look Up, Snow Woman (2017) Snow Woman (1968) Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel, Gemini, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Rampo Noir, and Door.
This year’s Halloween Review is a link to a Heroic Purgatory discussion on Roger Corman’s Poe cycle.
Corman’s Poe cycle consists of eight films and all but one star Vincent Price: House of Usher (1960); The Pit and the Pendulum (1961); Tales of Terror (1962); The Premature Burial (1962), starring Ray Milland; The Raven (1963); The Haunted Palace (1963); The Masque of the Red Death (1964); The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
John and I initially started out with the intention of talking about THE RAVEN and THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM but my favourites were House of Usher and The Haunted Palace.
Click to view slideshow.It was an interesting conversation. Prior to it, I thought of Corman as a monster movie man but his artistry on the Poe cycle really elevated him in my opinion.