The Peril at Pincer Point had its world première at SXSW, 14 March 2026 “Lets talk about your creative process, shall we?”, asks Bill Pronopoulos (Jason Hogan) in Gared Studios near the beginning of The Peril at Pincer Point. Bill is reading the riot act to sound recordist Jim Baitte (Jack Redmayne), who despite a…
Crazy Mama first published by Little White Lies, as entry 155 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “You ladies are dangerous. This is America.” The speaker is landlord Mr Albertson (Jim Backus), surprised to see, as he evicts Melba Stokes (Cloris Leachman) and her mother Sheba (Ann Sothern) for failing to meet rent on their hair…
The Masque of the Red Death first published by Little White Lies, as entry 120 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column The Masque of the Red Death is the seventh of eight features which Roger Corman adapted in the first half of the 1960s from the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Some of these adaptations were…