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BORDERLINE WEIRD: THE BLACK CAT (1934)
The Black Cat has been promoted onto the List of the 366 Best Weird Movies ever made. Please make comments general comments about the film on the official Certified Weird entry. DIRECTED BY: Edgar G....
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65. MANIAC (1934)
AKA Sex Maniac “Unless you regularly do mushrooms and go to Lady Gaga concerts with your good friend Crispin Glover, then watching Maniac is guaranteed to be the weirdest experience you have ever...
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TOD BROWNING’S WHITE TIGER (1923)
Tod Browning‘s White Tiger (1923) finds the director revisiting intimate motifs and has an unusual connection to Edgar Allan Poe (Browning, who has often been referred to as the Poe of cinema, listed...
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LIST CANDIDATE: LUNACY [SILENI] (2005)
DIRECTED BY: Jan Svankmajer FEATURING: Pavel Liska, Jan Tríska, Anna Geislerová PLOT: A mentally unbalanced man meets a modern day Marquis de Sade who convinces him to check himself into a bizarre...
View ArticleSATURDAY SHORT: THE BOUNDARIES OF LIFE AND DEATH (2012)
Based on an Edgar Allan Poe quote, this animated short explores the connection between life and death.
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LIST CANDIDATE: TWIXT (2011)
DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola FEATURING: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin, Joanne Whalley, Alden Ehrenreich, David Paymer, Don Novello, Anthony Fusco, Tom Waits PLOT: Horror writer...
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MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1932) AND THE MUMMY (1932)
After the successes of Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931) Universal Studios and Carl Laemmle, Jr. became anxious to produce vehicles for Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. After seeing unsatisfactory...
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THE VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION (2013 BLU-RAY)
A Vincent Price six pack has made its way to Blu-Ray. The set features some of the actor’s most iconic roles, along with at least one surprise inclusion. It is by no means a complete collection, as it...
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178. THE BLACK CAT (1934)
Peter Allison: “Sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me.” Dr. Vitus Werdegast: “Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not.”–The Black Cat DIRECTED BY: Edgar G.Ulmer FEATURING: Boris Karloff,...
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THE RAVEN (1935)
The Raven (1935) marks the second teaming of Universal’s dual horror stars: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. It is also downright mortifying in its pedestrianism. Director Lew Landers simply did not...
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READER RECOMMENDATION: “TOBY DAMMIT” (1968)
Reader recommendation from Steven Ryder Note: ‘Toby Dammit’ is a segment filmed as part of Spirits of the Dead, an anthology based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. The other entries were “William...
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1968 EXPLOITATION TRIPLE FEATURE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE DEVIL RIDES...
In 1968 George Romero released one of the most relentlessly frightening movies ever made in Night of the Living Dead, but it took a couple of years for the midnight movie crowd to make it into an epic...
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355. LUNACY (2005)
Sílení “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”–Edgar Allen Poe, 1848 letter to George W. Eveleth DIRECTED BY: Jan Svankmajer FEATURING: Pavel Liska, Jan Tríska, Anna Geislerová...
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