By the end of The Fall of the House of Usher’s second episode, it’s clear that Mike Flanagan isn’t just name-dropping Edgar Allan Poe’s work for fun. You couldn’t pick a more appropriate title for this one. The 1964 movie The Masque of the Red Death, based on Poe’s short story, represented one of several […]
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Not surprisingly, Netflix has put little effort into assembling a lineup of horror movies for Halloween. Aside from the generally reviled Elm Street remake and a handful of Final Destination movies, the streaming giant seems disinterested in spooky season. Thankfully Mike Flanagan is back for what’s as close to a Netflix Halloween tradition as we […]
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Gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe may have passed away in 1849, but his legacy continues to loom over horror. Later this year, Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix series adapts one of Poe’s works – The Fall of the House of Usher. Both Universal Studios – in an adaptation starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff – and […]
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Before there was H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, there was Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s poetry and short stories hugely influenced the horror genre. Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, and Legeia all found their way […]
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Legendary director and producer Roger Corman’s career spans several decades. From 1954 to the early 1970’s, Corman directed over 50 movies. Today, he’s still producing feature length films. His low-budget approach aesthetics played a significant role in the growth of the indie movie scene in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Like William Castle, Roger Corman cut […]
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On October 25th, 1993, we lost a horror icon – Vincent Price. Baby boomers grew up watching Price in Roger Corman’s B-movie adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe. For horror-obsessed Canadian kids like me who grew up in the 1970’s and 1980s’, Vincent Price was Dr. Anton Phibes and the host of Hamilton-produced kids show, The […]
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