Night of the Demon (1957)
Jan 4, 2001Occult Curse
Classic occult film from former Val Lewton associate Jacques Tourneur that sits in a wonderfully ambiguous place where we cannot be certain whether the supernatural is real or imagined
Charles Bennett
The Story of Mankind (1957)
Feb 18, 2010Heavenly Tribunal Judges Human History
Laughable Irwin Allen film that conducts a tour of human history via stock footage as Vincent Price's The Devil holds a heavenly tribunal to judge humanity for inventing the atomic bomb
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Sep 18, 2000Super-Submarine Adventures
This was the film that inspired the popular tv series set aboard a futuristic submarine. As always with Irwin Allen, stolid dramatics, bad science and colourful spectacle dominate
The City Under the Sea (1965)
Jul 12, 2000Lost Underwater City
The title of Edgar Allan Poe's poem is appropriated in an effort to appeal to the 1960s fad for Poe film adaptations, otherwise this is an unrelated work about a lost underwater city ruled by Vincent Price.