The Raven (1935) by Lew Landers
Sunday, October 28, 1984, 7:30 pm
Halloween Special
Special Starting Time: 7:30 p.m.
The Raven (1935). Not Corman’s campy satire, this is the ghoulishly Poe-like original that teams a truly demonic Bela Lugosi with Boris Karloff as his unwitting victim.
Maniac (1934, a.k.a. Sex Maniac). Oblivious to the decorous dictates of the Code, Dwain Esper’s underground classic pulls out the stops on sex, violence and bad taste. J. Hoberman calls Maniac “one of Esper’s most successful products—the sort of cinema loco time capsule that showboat modernists as disparate as George Landow and Brian DePalma might be proud to produce today.”
White Zombie (1932). “A Gothic fairy tale filled with traditional symbols, dreamlike imagery, echoes of Romanticism and (probably unintentional) psychosexual overtones…In conception and execution, the movie is superior to Dracula.” —Carlos Clarens.