Monster of the Day #3524

Updated on June 6, 2024 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

1963. Roger Corman, despite working on (comparatively) bigger movies, still directed five films that year. Only one (The Young Racers) wasn’t a horror film, The Raven, The Terror, The Man With the X-Ray Eyes and The Haunted Palace. None except the last really featured a monster per se. The Haunted Palace was sold as another Poe film, but famously was actually the first film adaptation of an HP Lovecraft story. Meaning it had 10% less Poe content than the office Poe films.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    The Raven was more of a comedy than a horror film, though I guess it was sold as a horror film.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    I still have nightmares about being turned into a wise-talking bird. Shudder.

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, it was a horror comedy. Same as with Comedy of Terrors.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, I'd call it 'black comedy' if that's the right term.

  • Gamera977

    I thought Black-Eyed Children were spooky, but I guess No-Eyed Children are worse…

    I found the whole 'Edger Allen Poe's The Haunted Palace insulting to Lovecraft though I can understand why they changed it. At least H.P. was a big Poe fan. If they'd named it 'Seabury Quinn's The Haunted Palace' Lovecraft would probably have clawed his way out of the grave and strangled Corman and everyone else responsible.

  • zombiewhacker

    What's most remarkable about this movie is that it represented (I believe) the first and only on-screen teaming of Vincent Price and Lon Chaney Jr., despite their both having worked in the genre for some thirty years prior.

    (Perhaps this was due to the fact that Chaney was largely a contract player at Universal in the past, whereas Price tending to work more at Fox and other studios.)

  • Eric Hinkle

    And as Corman died he would have motioned to the camera crews to keep filming, so they could use the footage in a future movie.

  • Gamera977

    Still going though 'Friday the 13th' as my stupid movies of the weekend. But I did pick up 'The Divine Fury' on Blu-Ray. Fantastic Korean horror film about a MMA fighter who's lost his faith in God who gets paired up with an exorcist. Mostly a serious movie about a guy who's lost his way in life but he does (small spoiler) get to beat the Devil out of the head Satanist by the end of the film.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Well, I was in a lot of airports this weekend so the only thing I watched (when I got back) was "The Gate." It was the steelbook version with a bunch of extras, and as a film it's a lot of fun. As RLM says, it's a good gateway film into the horror genre for young people. And for old people, it's very well put together and compelling from start to finish. The acting is really good, kind of a shame that only Sephen Dorff went on to stardom.

  • Kirk Draut

    "Honey, what's wrong with that child?"

    "No eyes dear…"