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The Premature Burial 1962
The most okay of the Corman Poe adaptations I’ve seen so far. As with the others the presentation is great and it has a real atmosphere of dread, the story is just too thin to really sustain a full feature. And it’s not like Corman couldn’t make something interesting out a thin story - The Pit and the Pendulum is a very slender tale but they really figured out how to build out a compelling back story and bigger context. Here, that kind of bracing to shore up the foundation just isn’t present, so it falls a little flat.
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The Pit and the Pendulum 1961
You know that Vincent Price is going to turn the tables well in advance, but that doesn’t make it any less fun when he goes full maniac for the final act. A pulpy slow burn pays off beautifully.
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The Year of the Cannibals 1970
Proof that not everyone can be Ken Russell, though maybe more people should try.
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Stop Making Sense 1984
In IMAX. They finally made a screen big enough for the suit.
An hour and a half of thinking “is this the best song ever?” only for each candidate to be overtaken by the next one.
