It’s not a great movie, but a bit of fun: Into the Badlands, with Bruce Dern as a bounty hunter in the Old West, tying several stories together.
A supernatural and possibly undead bounty hunter.
It’s not a great movie, but a bit of fun: Into the Badlands, with Bruce Dern as a bounty hunter in the Old West, tying several stories together.
A supernatural and possibly undead bounty hunter.
Three by Corman should be mentioned –
Poe’s Tales of Terror stars Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and Peter Lorre. With that lineup, it should’ve been better. (The same three were in his movie The Raven, which is Great, but only because it doesn’t take itself seriously at all.) The film actually uses four Poe stories, because one of them combines two different ones.
. Morella – Remember this story of Poe’s? It’s another of his reincarnated dead wife stories. You probably won’t remember this adaptation, either, although it has a lot more action than the Poe story
. The Black Cat Peter Lorre plays a drunken husband (of a shrewish wife with a black cat) who confronts a wine connoisseur in a duel of “name that wine”, at which the drunken Lorre comes off much better than anyone expected against “Fortunato Luchresi” (Played by Vincent Price, imitating Ernie Kovacs as “Percy Dovetonsils” – If you’re familiar with Poe, you know where this is going) They go to Lorre’s house, where Luchresi falls for the wife. The two of them have an affair, and when Lorre’s character – who’s named “Montresor”, for cryin’ out loud – find out he chains them both up and bricks them in, so you get The Black Cat and The Cask of Amontillado mixed together. Of course, the cat gets walled in, and its cries alert the police to the crime.
. [i[The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar* – starring Basil Rathbone. Rathbone actually did an audio recording of this story, which is much better than this awful adaptation (even though Richard Matheson scripted it). Price played the decomposing . Valdemar, and his final dissolution was with a heated mixture of glue, glycerin, corn starch, and make-up paint, which apparently almost burned him.It doersn’t look all that great.
Twice-Told Tales Every now and then somebody tries to cash in on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s weirder stories, trying to make them horrors. They actually tried putting in a Hawthorne-Poe horror Museum in Salem, MA (where Hawthotne lived for a while, and worked in the Customs House. It failed. This was an attempt to use Hawthorne as a basis for his cheapo horror flix instead of Poe, as Corman was doing. It starred Vincent Price, Beverely Garland, and Sebastian Cabot. SEbastian Cabot? Mr. French? That’s the kind of horror we’re talking here.
An Eveninmg of Edgar Allan Poe – basically a one-man show, with Vincent Price very dramatically telling three Poe tales. It’s much better than you’d think, and easily the most faithful rendering of Poe on the screen, even though these aren’t standard dramatizations. Definitely worth a look.
Double POst
Great suggestion, considering your sig
Shouldn’t that be “Double POEst”?
I came here to say this too.
I’ve seen both southbound and cats eye, and enjoyed both quite a bit. I should’ve included those in OP as anthologies I’ve seen that I was impressed with.
I’m going to slowly work my way through the rest of the recommendations.