Pajama Party (1964)
Jul 31, 2024Beach Party Comedy with Martian Visitor
One of the popular Beach Party comedies of the 1960s. Tommy Kirk turns up as a bumbling Martian to romance Annette Funicello
Louis M. Heyward
Planet of the Vampires (1965)
Feb 26, 2001Mysterious Planet/Alien Possessed Dead
Cult Italian horror director Mario Bava makes an SF film where explorers find an alien planet where aliens possess the dead (not vampires despite the title). In many ways a precursor of Alien
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.
Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966)
Jul 4, 2001Mad Scientist/Spy Spoof
Italian-made sequel to the campy Vincent Price starring Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. Directed by the usually great Mario Bava and overrun by the buffoonish clowning of Italian comics Franco and Ciccio
Matthew Hopkins – Witchfinder General (1968)
Dec 5, 1999Historical Witch Persecutions
Stark and effective film based on a true-life historical figure, this sets out to depict the barbarism of the 17th century witch hunts. Vincent Price plays seriously and the film is all the more effective as a result
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Aug 7, 2003Witch's Revenge
Dreary British occult film that wastes a great cast line-up, including Christopher Lee, Barbara Steele and an 82 year-old Boris Karloff in his last performance
The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
Apr 11, 1999Disfigued Madman's Campy Revenge
Droll, elegant camp masterpiece with Vincent Price giving the best performance of his life as a deformed madman employing the Biblical Plagues of Egypt as a motif to take revenge against the surgeons who killed his wife
Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Sep 29, 2001Disfigured Madman
Sequel to The Abominable Dr Phibes that brings back Vincent Price and seeks to replicate the same droll campy humour as before but with more mixed results this time