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‘The Tomb of Ligeia’ – Vincent Price mourns his lost love on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, horror, literary adaptation, supernatural, SVOD 08/31/2023 Sean Axmaker

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.

Vincent Price challenges ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, horror, literary adaptation, psychological drama, supernatural, SVOD 08/25/2023 Sean Axmaker

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.

‘Tales of Terror’ – a trilogy of Poe stories on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, based on a true story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, literary adaptation, psychological drama, SVOD 08/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

Vincent Price stars in all three short films in Roger Corman’s horror trilogy but is upstaged by Peter Lorre in the comic take on ‘The Black Cat.’

‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ – Roger Corman’s Gothic horror on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, horror, literary adaptation, psychological drama, SVOD, thriller 08/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

Vincent Price is the brooding hero and Barbara Steele the dead wife whose spirit returns to haunt him in this stylish Edgar Allan Poe adaptation.

‘House of Usher’ – Vincent Price channels Edgar Allan Poe on Criterion Channel

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Halloween, Hollywood Classic, horror, literary adaptation, National Film Registry, psychological drama, supernatural, SVOD 08/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

Roger Corman’s Gothic horror, shot in rich, vivid color, is a triumph of expressionism on a budget and became the first of eight successful adaptations of Poe’s works.

‘Edward Scissorhands’ – Tim Burton’s suburban fairy tale on Disney+ and Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Christmas, Disney+, DVD, family friendly, fantasy, high school, Kid Stuff, MGM+, Paramount+, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 02/11/2023 Sean Axmaker

Johnny Depp is sweetly haunting as the innocent outcast in Burton’s magical and melancholy fairy tale for the modern world.

Last chance: ‘Leave Her to Heaven’ – Gene Tierney’s fatal attraction on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, psychological drama, suspense 09/25/2022 Sean Axmaker

John Stahl’s gorgeous thriller is part Technicolor film noir and part dark romantic melodrama with a psychotic beauty at its center.

Clifton Webb and Gene Tierney in the 1944 film noir 'Laura' directed by Otto Preminger

‘Laura’ – The silkiest film noir of all on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Essential Viewing, film noir, Hollywood Classic, Last chance, suspense, SVOD 12/25/2021 Sean Axmaker

Gene Tierney is the title character and Dana Andrews the driven cop in the romantic murder mystery from director Otto Preminger.

Vincent Price and Diana Rigg star in the Shakespearean horror

Blu-ray: Twilight Time presents Frank Sinatra and Vincent Price

Blu-ray, Twilight Time 04/02/2017 Sean Axmaker

Here are some notes on a few Twilight Time releases I’ve enjoyed but not had time to write up feature reviews. I’ll be listing all the supplements but know that each disc also features Twilight Time’s trademark isolated score, the original trailer, and an accompanying 8-page booklet with an essay by Julie Kirgo. Each disc […]