The exhibit opens 6 p.m. Friday during The Paseo Art District’s First Friday Gallery Art Walk.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
A self-taught filmmaker, Corman is famous for three things. The first is for making movies fast and cheap, but not always good. (At the typing of this sentence, his producer credits number 400 titles deep.) The second is for doing so while never losing a dime, which isn’t exactly true, but makes for great hype. […]
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Master of the World
It’s now available at ClassicMoviesNow.com through MGM’s made-on-demand program, with no frills attached, but the important thing is that it’s out at all … assuming you’re a Price checker. If you liked his AIP vehicles adapting Edgar Allan Poe, you’ll probably feel the same about this AIP vehicle adapting Jules Verne — two novels, to […]
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Buried Alive
That’s 1990’s “Buried Alive” for you. Shoddy it may be, it’s not without immense cheesy pleasures. As it opens, a young woman escapes from the Ravenscroft Institute for troubled girls, only to get nabbed by some dude in an old-man mask (imagine being kidnapped by the Six Flags mascot) and dropped down a trap door […]
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Diary of a Madman
Tame then and tame now, they nonetheless primed me for the cathartic thrills of the genre. Up until its recent DVD debut, 1963’s “Diary Of A Madman” eluded me. Like the excellent series of Edgar Allan Poe films Price churned out under producer Roger Corman, this chiller, too, takes its inspiration from another classic author […]