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www.boxoffice.com - : In the '60s master low-budget producer/director Roger Corman lobbied his boss, American-International Pictures mogul Sam Arkoff, to let him segue from standard B-movie fare to something more substantive. His dream was to make movie adaptations of the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Little did either of them know how successful and popular the films would turn out to be. more...
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www.filmcritic.com - : Screaming the first time might be an issue if you can sit through this collaboration among Price, Lee, and Cushing, none of which do much with their roles. While some of the film's boundary-pushing (for 1969) moments of gore are spine-tingling (namely when a serial killer removes his own hand to escape a pair of cuffs). But this odd conflagration of mass murderer, scientific experimentation, and strange neo-Nazi group on the prowl stories just doesn't work. At all. more...
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