X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES
Here’s a film that should be remade, an early sixties Roger Corman potboiler with an unusually imaginative script that utilizes ominous Lovecraftian overtones
FORBIDDEN WORLD
The second of Roger Corman’s early eighties ALIEN rip-offs, and makes the first, 1981’s middling GALAXY OF TERROR, look like a masterpiece in comparison
TARGETS
One of the most stunning horror films of the 1960s, and one of the finest movies ever directed by Peter Bogdonovich
THE DUNWICH HORROR
A dumber-than-average H.P. Lovecraft adaptation from 1970, courtesy of American International Pictures, who naturally attempted to juice up Lovecraft’s writing with late sixties psychadelia and gratuitous sex appeal
DEMENTIA 13
It’s an article of faith among many film buffs that the top filmmakers of the so-called movie brat generation (Scorsese, Spielberg, Lucas, etc) all had “monumental” debuts
DEATH RACE 2000
One of the most popular films ever made by Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, and also one of the most overtly political
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP
More eighties trashola from Roger Corman, with plenty of gore, slime, cheesy sea monsters, gratuitous T&A and one of the cinema’s better mutant birth scenes
HOUSE OF USHER
The first of Roger Corman’s stately and refined Edgar Allen Poe adaptations. An affecting film, but I prefer my Corman pictures down and dirty
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND
This 1990 horror/sci fi extravaganza was something of an event upon its initial release, even if it was ignored by its distributors (who gave it minimal support) and the general public (who didn’t bother turning out)
Edgar Allan Poe at 200
In the field of horror one name stands above all others: Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809-October 7, 1849)