The greatest of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations stars Price as a sadistic prince who revels in the torments of those who seek refuge from the Black Death in his castle.
The eighth and final film in Roger Corman’s cycle of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations is a sophisticated, elegant ghosty story with a psychological dimension.
Sidney Lumet’s 1964 drama, set in the slums of Harlem and shot partly on location, takes on race, poverty, and the legacy of the Holocaust on a personal level.
Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.
Sean Connery helped turn the James Bond spy series into a blockbuster franchise in his third outing as 007, perhaps the most iconic film in the series.
Masaki Kobayashi’s quartet of ancient ghost stories may not be, strictly speaking, a horror film but it is breathtakingly lovely, visually composed like a painting, and suffused in sadness, regret, and loss.
Kaneto Shindo’s primal classic looks like a ghost story and has the unsettling, hostile atmosphere of a horror movie but the real demons arise from the desperation and savagery of the human animal.
