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Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)

Posted on July 30, 2017 at 11:18 am by Jeff Kuykendall

I first saw Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) in high school, screened by a very lazy English teacher who, intentionally or not, drew an equivalence between literature and its film adaptation: she insisted on showing us a movie of … Continue reading →

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Cry of the Banshee (1970)

Posted on May 21, 2016 at 12:38 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Cry of the Banshee (1970) opens with a quote from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells,” and his name was featured prominently in the advertising, despite the fact that the film is not an adaptation of Poe at all – but … Continue reading →

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