As BroadwayWorld previously reported, actor Barry Dennen, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in both the original Broadway and film versions of Jesus Christ Superstar, passed away this morning in Burbank, CA where he was in hospice care. According to close friend Lucy Chase Williams, the actor had suffered a brain injury after a fall at home in June. He was 79.
- 9/28/2017
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Barry Dennen, who played Pontius Pilate in the original stage and film versions of Jesus Christ Superstar and earlier played a key role in Barbra Streisand’s emergence from cabaret unknown to superstar diva, died Tuesday morning in Burbank, where he was in hospice care. He was 79. Dennen had suffered a brain injury after a fall at home in June, according to Lucy Chase Williams, a close friend who confirmed the death to Deadline. An actor, singer and voice artist, Dennen’s…...
- 9/26/2017
- Deadline
The holiday shopping season officially kicks off tonight and we know it can be difficult to find presents for horror fans that seem to have everything. To help make things easier, we’ve put together the initial list of our holiday gift suggestions, which include cannibal wine, classic horror shirts, vinyl figures and Blu-ray collections.
While a handful of these items are only available at select websites, you should be able to find some pretty good sales on other items starting tonight. Specifically, Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart will have big sales on Blu-ray/DVD titles and video games. We’d like to give Tamika Jones a big thanks for helping put this guide together.
Silence of the Lambs Wine: “The Alamo Drafthouse’s 2013 Signature Wines are an oenophilic nod to noted gourmand, wine connoisseur and psychopath Hannibal Lecter. “The Chianti Slurp” is an iconic wine in film moment, celebrated...
While a handful of these items are only available at select websites, you should be able to find some pretty good sales on other items starting tonight. Specifically, Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart will have big sales on Blu-ray/DVD titles and video games. We’d like to give Tamika Jones a big thanks for helping put this guide together.
Silence of the Lambs Wine: “The Alamo Drafthouse’s 2013 Signature Wines are an oenophilic nod to noted gourmand, wine connoisseur and psychopath Hannibal Lecter. “The Chianti Slurp” is an iconic wine in film moment, celebrated...
- 11/28/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Chicago – Scream Factory continues to impress with one of the most essential box sets of 2013 for horror fans — “The Vincent Price Collection,” featuring complete remasters of six of the legendary actor’s most beloved films along with hours of archival and new special features. The bonus material is cool but, as with a lot of these Scream Factory releases, it’s the HD remastering that is truly breathtaking. I don’t believe “The Pit and the Pendulum” looked this well-mixed in terms of color and shadow when it was released fifty years ago. It’s a great holiday season option for horror fans.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Most of the films in the collection are from Price’s Poe period with Roger Corman, including one of his absolute best, 1961’s “The Pit and the Pendulum.” It’s the stand-out in this release but every film gets the same HD treatment and the special features are excellent,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Most of the films in the collection are from Price’s Poe period with Roger Corman, including one of his absolute best, 1961’s “The Pit and the Pendulum.” It’s the stand-out in this release but every film gets the same HD treatment and the special features are excellent,...
- 11/11/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
With The Vincent Price Collection being released, we’re giving readers an opportunity to check out trailers featuring the horror icon each day this week. Here’s a look at the original trailer for 1960′s Fall of the House of Usher:
“Legendary scare-master Vincent Price serves up a diabolic nightmare dripping with brooding evil and sinister suspense! Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling tale about a family drive to savage bloodlust by a power beyond their wildest fears, this terrifying story of murder, madness, and necrophilia proves that there’s no place like home… for horror!
Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher (Price) is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding. But when Madeline’s fiance arrives at the haunted castle to claim his lovely bride, he soon discovers that, for this family, their house is more than just a home…...
“Legendary scare-master Vincent Price serves up a diabolic nightmare dripping with brooding evil and sinister suspense! Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling tale about a family drive to savage bloodlust by a power beyond their wildest fears, this terrifying story of murder, madness, and necrophilia proves that there’s no place like home… for horror!
Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher (Price) is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding. But when Madeline’s fiance arrives at the haunted castle to claim his lovely bride, he soon discovers that, for this family, their house is more than just a home…...
- 10/24/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
With The Vincent Price Collection being released this week, we thought it would be a great opportunity to give our readers a look at a number of trailers featuring the horror icon. Yesterday, we gave you a look at Witchfinder General, and we now have the original trailer for The Haunted Palace:
“In this chilling adaption of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward” Charles Dexter Ward (Vincent Price) travels with his wife Ann (Debra Paget) to Arkham to inspect a mansion he has inherited. The original lord of the manor was his Great Grandfather Joseph Curwen a disciple of the devil who placed a hideous curse on the villages as they burned him at the stake. Slowly Ward feels the spirit of his ancestor possessing him and seeking a desperate vengeance on the descedants of those who previously thwarted his plans. Accursed mutants…evil possession…will...
“In this chilling adaption of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward” Charles Dexter Ward (Vincent Price) travels with his wife Ann (Debra Paget) to Arkham to inspect a mansion he has inherited. The original lord of the manor was his Great Grandfather Joseph Curwen a disciple of the devil who placed a hideous curse on the villages as they burned him at the stake. Slowly Ward feels the spirit of his ancestor possessing him and seeking a desperate vengeance on the descedants of those who previously thwarted his plans. Accursed mutants…evil possession…will...
- 10/22/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Scream Factory has officially announced The Vincent Price Collection, providing us with information on bonus features for the upcoming Blu-ray set that includes The Fall of the House of Usher, The Haunted Palace, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, Witchfinder General, and The Abominable Dr. Phibes:
“On October 22, classic film aficionados, horror fans and collectors will relish the 4-Disc Blu-ray™ release of The Vincent Price Collection from Scream Factory. An essential collection for every home entertainment library, this extraordinary collector’s set brings together Six Vincent Price masterpiece classics, featuring the first-ever Blu-ray movie presentation of Fall Of The House Of Usher (1960), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Masque Of The Red Death (1964), The Pit And The Pendulum (1961), Witchfinder General (1968) and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971). Brimming with a bevy of chilling bonus content including interviews with producer/director Roger Corman, audio commentaries, original theatrical trailers, still galleries and archival materials,...
“On October 22, classic film aficionados, horror fans and collectors will relish the 4-Disc Blu-ray™ release of The Vincent Price Collection from Scream Factory. An essential collection for every home entertainment library, this extraordinary collector’s set brings together Six Vincent Price masterpiece classics, featuring the first-ever Blu-ray movie presentation of Fall Of The House Of Usher (1960), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Masque Of The Red Death (1964), The Pit And The Pendulum (1961), Witchfinder General (1968) and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971). Brimming with a bevy of chilling bonus content including interviews with producer/director Roger Corman, audio commentaries, original theatrical trailers, still galleries and archival materials,...
- 8/27/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Quite simply one of the box sets of the year hands down. Thriller only ran for two seasons 1960-1962, but it was, quite possibly, the best horror anthology in TV history, maybe the best horror show period. Twilight Zone? Sorry guys, dark fantasy, often quite light hearted and cursed with far more clunkers. Night Gallery? Close, but hasn't aged as well. I'll let others argue the merits of Tales from the Crypt, Tales From The Darkside, etc. The bottom line is Thriller offered elegant, well written, well acted teleplays that made unease look easy.
I said elegant. That is a quality lost on a generation of TV watchers especially in the horror genre. Take an episode with the unlikely title of Pigeons from Hell. Adapted from a short story by the great Robert E. Howard Pigeons tells the tale of two men spending the night in a haunted plantation with...
I said elegant. That is a quality lost on a generation of TV watchers especially in the horror genre. Take an episode with the unlikely title of Pigeons from Hell. Adapted from a short story by the great Robert E. Howard Pigeons tells the tale of two men spending the night in a haunted plantation with...
- 10/19/2010
- Screen Anarchy
They finally did it.
No. They did more than that. They really, really did it.
Thriller is on DVD.
You remember — that show from the 60s that we all watched religiously, every week and it didn’t matter when it went into summer reruns because we couldn’t get enough of it? Summer reruns. Man, there’s a blast from the past. And you younger readers, you keep hearing us older fans gassing about Karloff’s Thriller and how great Pigeons From Hell was (yes Farnham, it’s here in all its winged glory) and how we wish you could watch it someday — well — you can.
The brain trust at Image Entertainment has outdone itself with this boxed set. But before I tell you about how wonderful everything is, I want to note that I was really disappointed with the Arthur Hiller commentary. Don’t get me wrong; it’s...
No. They did more than that. They really, really did it.
Thriller is on DVD.
You remember — that show from the 60s that we all watched religiously, every week and it didn’t matter when it went into summer reruns because we couldn’t get enough of it? Summer reruns. Man, there’s a blast from the past. And you younger readers, you keep hearing us older fans gassing about Karloff’s Thriller and how great Pigeons From Hell was (yes Farnham, it’s here in all its winged glory) and how we wish you could watch it someday — well — you can.
The brain trust at Image Entertainment has outdone itself with this boxed set. But before I tell you about how wonderful everything is, I want to note that I was really disappointed with the Arthur Hiller commentary. Don’t get me wrong; it’s...
- 9/3/2010
- by Jessie
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Karloff's classic horror television series "Thriller" is finally making its way to DVD courtesy of Image Entertainment and we couldn't be happier. All 67 episodes will be transferred to a 14 DVD box set due out August 3rd...
Below is the press release and DVD box artwork for the series.
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute to a television legend with the August 31st release of “Thriller: The Complete Series” 14-dvd Deluxe Box Set. All 67 unforgettable episodes have been remastered,...
Below is the press release and DVD box artwork for the series.
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute to a television legend with the August 31st release of “Thriller: The Complete Series” 14-dvd Deluxe Box Set. All 67 unforgettable episodes have been remastered,...
- 5/15/2010
- by admin
- Horrorbid
Now this is the way we love to end a Friday. Fans of Boris Karloff and classic horror television shows have long sought after the series "Thriller". It was available on VHS way back when and of course almost every bootlegger has peddled a copy online at one point or another, but now thanks to Image Entertainment the wait and the search are officially over!
From the Press Release
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute...
From the Press Release
For two seasons and over sixty episodes, horror icon Boris Karloff invited television audiences to enjoy captivating tales of suspense, murder, and relentless terror as host of the 1960s anthology series “Thriller.” Featuring stories from such master storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Cornell Woolrich and starring a galaxy of classic television stars from the 1960s and 1970s, “Thriller” was dubbed by Stephen King as “the best horror series ever put on TV.”
Now, Image Entertainment proudly announces a tribute...
- 5/15/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
We're exactly two months away from the second annual Monsterpalooza, which is returning to the Marriott Burbank Convention Center April 9-11, 2010. To help get people fired up for the event, which features special effects artists from the horror industry along with their many works, the promoters have revealed the expanded guest list along with a slew of presentations and demos that will be taking place over the weekend.
Confirmed guests so far include:
Verne Langdon - Monster Of Ceremonies
Michael Westmore - Academy Award Winning Makeup Artist - Mask, Star Trek, Raging Bull
Tom Burman - Award Winning Makeup Artist - Island Of Dr. Moreau, The Goonies, Nip/Tuck
Barney Burman - Proteus F/X - Dawn Of The Dead, Matrix Reloaded, Star Trek 09
Rob Burman - The Fly, The Thing, Star Trek 09
Amalgamated Dynamics - Academy Award Winners Tom Woodruff & Alec Gillis - Starship Troopers, Avp
Knb - Academy...
Confirmed guests so far include:
Verne Langdon - Monster Of Ceremonies
Michael Westmore - Academy Award Winning Makeup Artist - Mask, Star Trek, Raging Bull
Tom Burman - Award Winning Makeup Artist - Island Of Dr. Moreau, The Goonies, Nip/Tuck
Barney Burman - Proteus F/X - Dawn Of The Dead, Matrix Reloaded, Star Trek 09
Rob Burman - The Fly, The Thing, Star Trek 09
Amalgamated Dynamics - Academy Award Winners Tom Woodruff & Alec Gillis - Starship Troopers, Avp
Knb - Academy...
- 2/10/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The William Castle Film Collection (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $80.95) assembles the master showman’s eight Columbia Pictures features in one set. Three (Zotz!, 13 Frightened Girls, The Old Dark House) are new to DVD. Only two are in color (Girls, House), but black and white works far better here to evoke film fear anyhow. Castle produced and directed them all (though he shares a producing credit with Hammer Films’ Anthony Hinds on the House remake). Three were scripted by Robb White (who also wrote Castle’s earlier gimmicky genre hits MacAbre and House On Haunted Hill) while Ray Russell and Robert Dillon racked up two scripts each and Starlog contributor Robert Bloch penned one.
The films (fantasies, thrillers, comedies) are grouped sort of by theme, two per disc. So, 13 Frightened Girls (a.k.a. The Candy Web) is teamed with 13 Ghosts for the triskaidekaphobia entry. Homicidal and Strait-jacket represent the murder,...
The films (fantasies, thrillers, comedies) are grouped sort of by theme, two per disc. So, 13 Frightened Girls (a.k.a. The Candy Web) is teamed with 13 Ghosts for the triskaidekaphobia entry. Homicidal and Strait-jacket represent the murder,...
- 10/20/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
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