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The Incredible Shrinking Man, starring Grant Williams, William Schallert, directed by Jack Arnold

The Incredible Shrinking Man

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The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), starring Grant Williams, William Schallert, directed by Jack Arnold

The Incredible Shrinking Man is the classic science fiction story of an ordinary man. He finds himself starting to shrink, 1/7 of an inch daily. Can it be stopped? What happens when his shrinks below 1/7 of an inch?

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The Last Man on Earth (1964), starring Vincent Price

The Last Man on Earth

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The Last Man on Earth (1964), starring Vincent Price

Vincent Price stars in the first, and best, adaptation of Richard Matheson”s classic horror/sci-fi novel I Am Legend. After a plague wipes out the human race, Dr. Robert Morgan (Price) struggles with loneliness. And with his sanity as the monotony of the unending days broken only by his daily hunts for vampires! One day on his solitary travels he runs across another surviving human: is she a mirage, or real?

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The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) starring Vincent Price, Mark Damon, by Roger Corman

The Fall of the House of Usher

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Synopsis of The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allen Poe’s classic tale of murder, madness and necrophilia in the ancient ancestral home of the tragic Usher family. Vincent Price is the last male in the ill-fated line of Ushers, haunted by the crimes of his ancestors. He’s obsessed by the idea that only the complete annihilation of himself and his sister can end the Usher evil. This leads to The Fall of the House of Usher.

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