Edgar Allan Poe Archives - Back to the Past Collectibles https://gobacktothepast.com/tag/edgar-allan-poe/ Your Source for Everything Pop Culture Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:45:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Tales of Terror (1962) https://gobacktothepast.com/tales-of-terror-1962/ https://gobacktothepast.com/tales-of-terror-1962/#respond Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:45:24 +0000 https://gobacktothepast.com/?p=24632 We’re already four weeks into our Roger Corman Poe cycle and this week we’ll take a look at Tales of Terror, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone.  (You can find our earlier Roger Corman Poe articles here.) Tales of Terror is an anthology film featuring three short story segments connected by a short…

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]]> https://gobacktothepast.com/tales-of-terror-1962/feed/ 0 The Premature Burial (1962) https://gobacktothepast.com/the-premature-burial-1962/ https://gobacktothepast.com/the-premature-burial-1962/#respond Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:17:04 +0000 https://gobacktothepast.com/?p=24619 The one-two punch of House of Usher and Pit and the Pendulum pretty much guaranteed that there would be more Edgar Allan Poe adaptations coming out from American International Pictures.  For his third adaptation, Roger Corman decided on Poe’s short story, The Premature Burial, about a man who is obsessed with the notion that he will be…

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]]> https://gobacktothepast.com/the-premature-burial-1962/feed/ 0 The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) https://gobacktothepast.com/the-pit-and-the-pendulum-1961/ https://gobacktothepast.com/the-pit-and-the-pendulum-1961/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:56:19 +0000 https://gobacktothepast.com/?p=24604 The success of House of Usher surprised American International execs, so they wanted to strike while the iron was hot and get another Poe-related adaptation on the market, right away. Roger Corman wasted no time re-enlisting Vincent Price for The Pit and the Pendulum, with a script by Richard Matheson. But, could they duplicate the success…

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