The Three Stooges made 2 of their shorts in 3D since it was the 50s and that was the popular craze. This is the more horror-themed of the two(the other one PARDON MY BACKFIRE is sadly not about farts but about just being mechanics). You get a mad scientist attempting to put the brain of a beautiful gal inside the head of a gorilla. There's also a big ugly henchman, knives and other weapons thrown at the screen and lots of rampaging gorilla hijinks. One of my favorite shorts with Shemp and even when not in 3D good stupid fun.
This is a British sci-fli movie that feels kinda like an old episode of DR. WHO that's stretched out to feature length. There's a group of scientists that are sent to outer space, along with a couple of older folks whose sole purpose seems to be to act as comic relief from time to time, to learn the secrets about some warring aliens and how to defend the Earth from the bad aliens(aka The Terrornauts!). It's a bit talky at first but if you manage to stay awake you get an oversized Dalek-like robot, an alien with an eyeball under it's arm our green -skinned titular Terrornauts looking to do some human sacrificing of ladies. Goofy enough for a chuckle but hardly essential viewing. Maybe the weirdest thing I've ever seen from Amicus Studios though.
In this last entry in the Roger Corman-directed Edgar Allan Poe series from AIP studios Vincent Price wears some snazzy shades and pines for his dead wife and then gets remarried and becomes a hypnotist. There's lots of ghost shenanigans and a naughty black cat and Price acting like a koo-koo nutbird which is his specialty. I'm not sure if I would rate this one all that high up in the series (PIT AND THE PENDULUM and TALES OF TERROR are my 2 favs) but they're all enjoyable enough for a look at by Price fans.
It's hard to watch this one with the knowledge that it was originally going to star Vincent Price and not imagine it would have been improved by his presence. That's not to say that Ray Milland doesn't do a good job it's just hard for anyone to top Price in these Roger Corman directed Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and that inevitably leads to some minor disappointment while viewing.
The story itself deals with a guy(Milland) whose family has a history of being buried alive so that's his greatest fear. Guess what ends up happening to him?
This was the 3rd Corman/Poe film and the only one not to star Vincent Price.
Corman's Poe adaptations:
1960 - HOUSE OF USHER
1961 - THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
1962 - PREMATURE BURIAL
1962 - TALES OF TERROR
1963 - THE RAVEN
1963 - THE HAUNTED PALACE
1964 - THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
1964 - TOMB OF LIGEIA
Known in France as THE OBSESSION:
Weird British double feature where everything is rated X!
This one is a very TWILIGHT ZONE-ish tale of a fellow who takes over at the local cemetary and believes he can cause people to die simply by placing black pins in their plots on a big board in the ol' graveyard office. He also summizes that by that logic he should also be able to bring them back to life by using white pins which almost turns this into a 50s zombie flick. Unfortunately there are a few semi-surprising reveals at the end, that I won't spoil, that thwarts that expectation. Not my fav 50s horror and it probably coulda been shortened a lot without losing any of it's impact but interesting enough for a one-time watch.
Known in spanish under the less zombie-ish title of THE MARKED GRAVES:
This is one of those 80s horror flicks that somehow got 8 sequels and 2 remakes and I have no idea how. I know this played on cable a whole bunch back in the 80s and 90s and is still popular enough to this day but I have never really understood the appeal. There are a bunch of way better killer kid movies and there are also a bunch of way better Stephen King adaptations(even better ones that were based on short stories like this one!). I guess it just hit at the right time that everyone was looking to see a town of children killing grown-ups. Can't say I ever feel the need to check out any of the sequels. They did wait until the 90s to pop out the first sequel so I assume that had to do with its TV following and not the initial boxoffice popularity.
Linda Hamilton also made THE TERMINATOR this same year and became a big star so I guess that's something.
All the CHILDRENS OF THE CORN!(so far):
2. CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: FINAL SACRIFICE (1992)
3. CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST (1995)
4. CHILDREN OF THE CORN IV: THE GATHERING (1996) The first shot-on-video sequel
5. CHILDREN OF THE CORN V: THE FIELDS OF TERROR (1998)
6. CHILDREN OF THE CORN 666: ISAAC'S RETURN (1999) the return of little John Franklin as Isaac(he was also in Part 5 as a different character)
7. CHILDREN OF THE CORN REVELATION (2001) They gave up on the numbers!
8. CHILDREN OF THE CORN (2009) This was a TV movie remake of the original story
9. CHILDREN OF THE CORN: GENESIS (2011) Isn't this also the subtitle of one of the TERMINATOR sequels?
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