Diary of a Madman (1963)

Review: Diary of a Madman (1963)

Director: Reginald Le Borg

Cast: Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield, Elaine Devry, Ian Wolfe,

Vincent Price
Vincent Price
Nancy Kovack
Nancy Kovack
Chris Warfield
Chris Warfield
Elaine Devry
Elaine Devry
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe

Plot: Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.

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Mining a shrinking vein: <i>The Vincent Price Collection III</i>

Mining a shrinking vein: The Vincent Price Collection III

The 3rd volume of Shout! Factory’s Vincent Price Collection, anchored by William Whitney’s severely under-budgeted Master of the World (1961), seems more threadbare than the previous volumes, although there are still points of […]

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An evening of Guy de Maupassant on film

An evening of Guy de Maupassant on film

The 19th Century French writer Guy de Maupassant had a spare style and an acute understanding of social class and psychology, both characteristics which lend themselves well to cinematic adaptation. Criterion’s Blu-ray edition of Jean […]

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