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Ray MIlland stars in Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptation

Roger Corman’s ‘The Premature Burial’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, literary adaptation, SVOD 10/16/2017 Sean Axmaker

Vincent Price starred in all of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations but one. Ray Milland took the lead in The Premature Burial (1962), playing Guy Carrell, an aristocrat with crippling fear that he will be buried alive due to a family history of catalepsy. Corman brings the fear home in the opening scene: an […]

Ray Milland stars in Roger Corman's 'Premature Burial' and 'X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes'

Roger Corman’s ‘Premature Burial’ and ‘X-The Man with the X-ray Eyes’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Cult Movies, Halloween, horror 09/16/201503/27/2016 Sean Axmaker

Vincent Price starred in all of Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations but one. Ray Milland took the lead in Premature Burial (1962), playing Guy Carrell, an aristocrat with crippling fear that he will be buried alive due to a family history of catalepsy. Corman brings the fear home in the opening scene: an exhumation of an […]