{"id":1160,"date":"2018-08-10T11:47:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2018-08-10T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:47:45","slug":"second-look-edgar-allan-poe-from-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Second Look: Edgar Allan Poe from Arrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/81dS1i41r9L._SL1500_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1157 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/81dS1i41r9L._SL1500_-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/81dS1i41r9L._SL1500_-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/81dS1i41r9L._SL1500_-768x722.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/81dS1i41r9L._SL1500_-1024x963.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/81dS1i41r9L._SL1500_-319x300.jpg 319w, https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/81dS1i41r9L._SL1500_.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><mark class=\"hilite term-0\">SIX<\/mark> <mark class=\"hilite term-1\">GOTHIC<\/mark> <mark class=\"hilite term-2\">TALES<\/mark> Roger Corman, director \/Arrow Blu-Ray<\/strong> <strong>Limited edition box set<\/strong> There is simply no modern-day equivalent of the remarkable American actor Vincent Price, who may have regretted his typecasting in horror roles, but rose to the summit of the genre in a fashion that nobody before or since has matched. His best work was the series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations he made for the talented director Roger Corman, and this handsome box set \u2013 with its excellent Blu-ray restorations \u2014 is the perfect way to collect these macabre gems. In <em>The Fall of the House of Usher<\/em>, a young man learns of a family curse that threatens his happiness with his bride-to-be. In <em>The<\/em> <em>Pit and the Pendulum<\/em>, a brother investigates the untimely death of sister, played by Barbara Steele. <em><mark class=\"hilite term-2\">Tales<\/mark> of Terror<\/em> adapts three Poe classics, <em>Morella<\/em>, <em>The Black Cat <\/em>and <em>The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar<\/em>, each starring a horror icon. <em>The Raven<\/em> is a comic take on the famous poem concerning three rival magicians. In <em>The Haunted Palace<\/em>, a newcomer in a New England town is suspected of being a warlock. And in <em>The Tomb of Ligeia,<\/em> filmed in Norfolk and at Stonehenge, a widower\u2019s upcoming marriage plans are thwarted by his dead first wife. The <mark class=\"hilite term-0\">six<\/mark> films boast a remarkable cast list: not just Price and Steele (<em>Black Sunday<\/em>), but also Boris Karloff (<em>Frankenstein<\/em>), Peter Lorre <em>(M, The Beast with Five Fingers<\/em>), Lon Chaney Jr (<em>The Wolf Man, Spider Baby<\/em>), Basil Rathbone (<em>The Black Cat<\/em>) and a very young Jack Nicholson. Adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson (<em>The Twilight Zone, I Am Legend<\/em>) and Robert Towne (<em>Chinatown<\/em>), these <mark class=\"hilite term-0\">Six<\/mark> <mark class=\"hilite term-1\">Gothic<\/mark> <mark class=\"hilite term-2\">Tales<\/mark> now rank as classic examples of <mark class=\"hilite term-0\">six<\/mark>ties horror cinema.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIX GOTHIC TALES Roger Corman, director \/Arrow Blu-Ray Limited edition box set There is simply no modern-day equivalent of the remarkable American actor Vincent Price, who may have regretted his typecasting in horror roles, but rose to the summit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/?p=1160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dvdchoices.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}