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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.
Roger William Corman (April 5, ... (1960), Corman's first Edgar Allan Poe adaptation. ... AIP started up a fresh Poe cycle in the late 1960s, but Corman was not part ...
[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 ...
A Hollywood maverick who made hundreds of movies, Corman was the man behind everything from Vincent Price horror romps to 1960s biker flicks. Among his most memorable movies were 1960’s “The ...
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.
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.
The Premature Burial, also known as Premature Burial, is a 1962 American horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Alan Napier, Heather Angel and Richard Ney. The screenplay by Charles Beaumont and Ray Russell is based upon the 1844 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.