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House of Usher (1960) became the first of eight films directed by Corman that were adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and which collectively came to be known as the "Poe Cycle". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française , [ 7 ] as well as in the British Film ...
House of Usher (also known as The Fall of the House of Usher) is a 1960 American gothic horror film directed by Roger Corman and written by Richard Matheson from the 1839 short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe.
[11] The Monthly Film Bulletin declared, "By and large, Roger Corman's Poe adaptations maintain the highest standard in their field since Val Lewton's low-budget horror films of the Forties", and noted that the anthology format provided "the added advantage that for once there is no sense of the material being stretched too thin." [12]
Roger Corman, the prolific director of B-movies who gave many prominent filmmakers their start, has died. ... Perhaps his best known work was 1960's "The Little Shop of Horrors," a cult film that ...
The essential films of Roger Corman, who launched the careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Sylvester Stallone and many more.
The Premature Burial (1962, starred Ray Milland and Hazel Court, with Price notably absent for the only time in the unofficial "Corman-Poe Cycle". The Haunted Palace (1963) adopts the title of Poe's poem, but is more closely derived from the works of H. P. Lovecraft, in particular The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
He also made several horror films in the 1960s starring Vincent Price inspired by Edgar Allan Poe stories, including "House of Usher" (1960), "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1961) and "The Masque of ...
In 1963, Corman initiated a series of films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The most notable was “The Raven,” which teamed Nicholson with veteran horror stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. Directed by Corman on a rare three-week schedule, the horror spoof won good reviews, a rarity for his films.