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After three more or less straight - or at least non-comedic - attempts at bringing Edgar Allan Poe's work to the screen, Roger Corman opted to turn Poe's poem "The Raven" into a comic horror/fantasy, with the aid of Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a very young - and very awkward - Jack Nicholson, in his 1963 The Raven .

The first job I had in the movie business paid $400 for four weeks' work on location in 1974 in some of the top chicken-fighting spots in Georgia for a movie called "Cockfighter." I wouldn't put myself in their illustrious company, but I have a hunch that filmmakers such as Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Monte Hellman, Jack ...

Early this morning, ComingSoon.net/ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to talk to director James McTeigue about his gory action-thriller Ninja Assassin .

I went into this dramatization an Edgar Allan Poe fan, but only to a light extent.

When it comes to horror movies, like everything else, they don't make 'em like they used to: Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining.' There's plenty of new blood at the multiplex right now, but sometimes only old-school scares will do.

While Vincent Price's version is a classic, this version from the very first Treehouse of Horror took Poe's poem to new, Darth Vadarian heights.

One of the most terrifying men to ever grace the silver screen, Vincent Price is known for his roles bringing several stories by the famed writer Edgar Allan Poe to life.

By Paul McNamara on Fri, 10/23/09 - 4:28pm. It's a week before Halloween and that's all the excuse I need to veer off topic as we head into the weekend.

" Dragonwyck ," is a spooky chilling movie that was released in 1946. It stars Vincent Price , Gene Tierney, and Walter Huston.

By Paul McNamara on Fri, 10/23/09 - 4:28pm. It's a week before Halloween and that's all the excuse I need to veer off topic as we head into the weekend.

Sawed by the Bell Se7en The Abominable Dr. Phibes : Doctors are being found dead under mysterious circumstances.

Pick up a cryptogram bookmark at any Delta County Library and see if you can figure out the Poe related puzzle.

DEATH followed Edgar Allan Poe like a shadow through his life, and it was death that first inspired a film about Poe's tragic life.

A curse be upon the Oak Park Public Library. There I was, content to be reading history, as well as many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.

Monday, October 19 2009 Come support this great cause. Shot gun start at 1:30pm, fabulous goodie bags, gourmet barbeque dinner, cocktails and a spectacular live auction starting at 6:00 pm.

This weekend, the Pratt presents one of the most joyous surprises of recent feature-length cartoons: George Miller 's "Happy Feet," in which two very different superstars play Mumbles the penguin.

Given that Roger Corman attached his name to this production, I had high hopes for this film.

He needed only one name, "Karloff," to evoke images of hulking, terrible, inexorable menace.

There were many, many popular movies that focused on witches before a member of their male counterparts came along and stole their magical thunder.

What do you do when you discover the culprit of a drugs ring dealing crazy-ass smack to orphans is the president of the United States? It's a quandary troubling Michael Jai White as the titular star of Black Dynamite , an hilarious spoof of Blaxsploitation cinema that played in Edinburgh yesterday.