Poepictures
Stephen King called AIP's series of Poe adaptations "poepictures." All one word -- who am I to argue? They usually starred Vincent Price. Eventually they ran out of Poe stories and started adapting Lovecraft and Hawthorne, so I'm including those in this list too.
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House of Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1960, Unrated)
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Pit and the Pendulum (1961, Unrated)
Morbid and overwrought, like the best Corman / Poe pictures. I did have trouble telling the three bland men apart, but Vincent Price is memorable enough alone to make up for them. "You buried your sister alive!" "I did... But she's dead now!" What a chilling conclusion -- I never knew how much Tim Burton literally lifted for Sleepy Hollow. |
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Premature Burial (1962, Unrated)
Weird seeing a Poepicture without Vincent Price. Not bad, but not the best. I actually felt some "buried alive" tension when Ray Milland discovered a cat had been accidentally trapped in the walls of his house. |
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Tales of Terror (1962, Unrated)
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Tower of London (1962, Unrated)
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The Raven (1963, G)
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The Terror (The Haunting) (Lady of the Shadows) (1963, PG)
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The Haunted Palace (1963, Unrated)
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Twice-Told Tales (The Corpse-Makers) (Nights of Terror) (1963, Unrated)
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The Comedy of Terrors (The Graveside Story) (1964, Unrated)
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The Masque of the Red Death (1962, R)
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The Tomb of Ligeia (Tomb of the Cat) (1965, Unrated)
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Die, Monster, Die! (Monster of Terror) (1965, Unrated)
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The Conqueror Worm (Witchfinder General) (1968, Unrated)
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The Oblong Box (Dance, Mephisto) (1969, PG)
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The Dunwich Horror (1970, R)
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Cry of the Banshee (1970, R)
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Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue) (1971, PG-13)
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