Corman obviously slowed down a bit once he started making his Poe films, although ‘slow down’ is relative in his case. In 1962 he directed four films; the one Vincent Price-lacking Poe film (and unsurprisingly, the least popular) The Premature Burial, his famous racial drama The Intruder, famously remembered as the one film Corman lost money on–and also because it starred a young William Shatner as the virulent racist protagonist–, the Vincent Price-starring black and white historical flick The Tower of London, and his short story Poe collection Tales of Terror, with Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. The chapter The Black Cat introduced the sense of humor later fleshed out in The Raven, and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, which briefly supplied Corman’s one monster that year.
Happy Friday, everyone. Watch something stupid this weekend. In fact, watch something stupid with us tonight at our Watch Party.
