It looks rough, but Price is compelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

It looks rough, but Price is compelling.

~ Jennie Kermode -

An excellent example of Corman’s prodigious oeuvre and phenomenal versatility.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

An excellent example of Corman’s prodigious oeuvre and phenomenal versatility.

~ Adam Micklethwaite -

Corman successfully creates a sense of threat using only real shark footage, without recourse to the kind of special effects later contributors to the genre would enjoy.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Corman successfully creates a sense of threat using only real shark footage, without recourse to the kind of special effects later contributors to the genre would enjoy.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fans of classic horror will thrill to see these two great masters, Price and Karloff, go up against each other.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Fans of classic horror will thrill to see these two great masters, Price and Karloff, go up against each other.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The Pit And The Pendulum is an epic slice of grand guignol.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The Pit And The Pendulum is an epic slice of grand guignol.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A film which is there not just to be watched, but to be experienced.

~ Jennie Kermode -

A film which is there not just to be watched, but to be experienced.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Denied colour, Roger Corman plays with light and shadow like a master of film noir.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Denied colour, Roger Corman plays with light and shadow like a master of film noir.

~ Jennie Kermode -

One of the best films of the period, as well as one of the best ever made on race relations.

~ Chris -

One of the best films of the period, as well as one of the best ever made on race relations.

~ Chris -

With its claustrophobic themes of madness, suffocation and despair, The House Of Usher is a classic of Gothic horror.

~ Jennie Kermode -

With its claustrophobic themes of madness, suffocation and despair, The House Of Usher is a classic of Gothic horror.

~ Jennie Kermode -

His Poe adaptations aside, this is undoubtedly one of the director's best works.

~ Jennie Kermode -

His Poe adaptations aside, this is undoubtedly one of the director's best works.

~ Jennie Kermode -