I need to start this with a disclaimer. What is generally considered to be Vincent Price’s best movie (“Witchfinder General”) will not be appearing on this list, because I haven’t seen it. (It’s on my ‘to watch’ list, along with a million other movies.) You would be forgiven for thinking that Price only starred in…
Back in 1959 the original version of “House on Haunted Hill” was a very B-grade, cheap movie, with only two aspects of it worth watching. One is Vincent Price, and the second is the relationship of the couple, where their hatred of each other has vitriol positively dripping off the screen. As such, the remake…
I’ve seen a lot of Hollywood epics of this era and liked many of them. This three-hour long slog is not one. “El Cid” deals with eleventh century Spain, where Rodrigo de Vivar (Charlton Helston) gets into trouble for being nice to some Moorish princes he had taken prisoner in a battle. He has them…
“Yangtse Incident” is a depiction of an event that occurred in 1949, during the Chinese civil war. A British warship, the Amethyst, was on the Yangtse when it came under fire from Chinese communist batteries on the bank. The ship was taken unawares, running aground on a sandbank. On the whole this film appears to…
Vincent Price leads an impressive cast in this ‘horror-comedy’ “Theatre of Blood”. The plot is a standard one – a second-rate actor who is obsessed with Shakespeare, is also convinced he is a genius. Despite every critic in a ‘critic’s circle’ having given him a bad review for his plays, he thinks he will get…
Based on a novel by Stephen King, “Needful Things” describes the opening of an antique shop in a small town, called ‘Needful Things’. The proprietor, Leland Gaunt (Max Von Sydow) always seems to have the very item stocked that a person needs, that touches some deep desire or fills some hole in their hearts. The…
“The Last Boy” is described as science fiction, but personally I would call it fantasy – there is precious little science involved. Sira (Flynn Allen) is living in a caravan with his dying mother. She gives him instructions about a place he needs to travel to, and a map. There is a ‘wind’ that will…
“Glass Onion” is a sequel of sorts to “Knives Out”, starring Daniel Craig as detective Benoit Blanc. It is another Agatha Christie-style whodunnit, with a group of rich friends called together to a Greek Island by their billionaire ‘genius’ friend for a weekend of fun. Blanc himself gets an invitation, only for the millionaire to…
“The Devil’s Pass” is a found footage horror film, inspired by the real life Dyatlov Pass incident. This involved a group of nine Russians who went hiking in the Ural mountains in 1959, and died under mysterious circumstances. Over the years possible explanations and conspiracy theories have abounded, ranging from aliens and yeti through to…
“The House of Usher” (1960) is one of Roger Corman’s series of films based on Edgar Allen Poe stories. Starring Vincent Price, it centres around the family of Usher, a brother and sister living in a rundown old house over a ‘tarn’ or mountain lake. A visitor comes to the house, who in the film…
Eclectic Assemblage 