The Devil Girl From Mars and her robot come to earth looking for men to take back to her planet to replenish a dying male population. Cult British science fiction movie from the 1950s.
Devil Girl From Mars
In The Man Who Could Cheat Death, a man experiments with immortality. But he must have a gland operation every ten years. Otherwise, he’ll revert to his true age and die a horrible death.
In The Premature Burial, an artist grows distant from his newlywed wife. His father was a cataleptic, who was mistakenly buried alive. And so he’s terrified of the same. And step by step he grows more distant from his wife, more obsessed …
The Premature Burial
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court Synopsis of The Masque of the Red Death While the plague rages outside in the small Italian province, the Satan-worshipping prince stays confined to… The Masque of the Red Death
In The Curse of Frankenstein, Baron Victor von Frankenstein is facing execution for the murders that he has committed. He tells the story of how he came to this point, telling his story in flashback. The story of how he learned to reanimate the dead. In an act of hubris, he decides to go beyond that He constructs a composite man from a variety of parts looted from corpses. Along the way, his amoral decisions cause death and misery. He has alienated his best friend and fiance … Who come by to say farewell.
The Curse of Frankenstein
In short, The Raven is one of the funniest movies that I’ve ever seen, in any genre. It has some truly scary moments as well, and gives some of the best horror actors of all time — Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre — room to work, and they do so wonderfully.
The movie is ever-so-loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem, The Raven. And, in fact, Vincent Price plays the part of Dr. Erasmus Craven, the previously-unnamed narrator of the poem, who is mourning for his lost wife, Lanore (played by the beautiful and talented Hazel Court) — although his daughter Estelle (played by Olive Sturgess) tries to comfort him, he turns inward, and away from the world, a virtual recluse — until he gets a visit from the titular raven. A talking raven …
The Raven
