Corman/Poe: Exploring Roger Corman's Poe Cycle, 1960 - 1964, Taught by Author and Filmmaker Chris Alexander, Beginning July 15
Four week class taught online via Zoom
Dates: Tuesdays, July 15 - August 5, 2025
Time: 7-9 PM ET (NYC time)
Admission: $150 Patreon Members / $175 Regular Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace, The Raven, Masque of the Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia…
Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman’s adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories were popular in their time as escapist horror cinema. Most starred horror icon Vincent Price and were written (and “freely adapted”) by the likes of Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and Robert Towne. Today the series is recognized as unique and sophisticated, one that delivers decadent Gothic chills while exploring ideas of faith, sexuality, psychology and the supernatural. Though each of these pictures are unique, together they stand as a fully realized and consistent creative vision from one of the most important film figures of all time and his crack crew of craftspeople.
This 6-week course, an extension and expansion of Alexander's bestselling book Corman/Poe (2023), will take learners on an intelligent and energetic investigation into each one of these remarkable motion pictures individually, with analysis, discussion and debate...and perhaps even a special guest or two! Learners will come away from Corman/Poe with a deeper appreciation of the films themselves, and a thorough comprehension of their place in the fabric of film history.
Chris Alexander is a Canadian-based writer, filmmaker and music composer. He is the former editor-in-chief of iconic horror film magazine Fangoria and the editor-in-chief/co-founder of Delirium magazine as well as the writer, director and composer of numerous avant-garde feature horror movies, including Queen of Blood, Space Vampire, Scream of the Blind Dead, Parasite Lady, and Female Werewolf. He is a professor of horror film history at Canada’s Sheridan College and is the author of the bestselling book Corman/Poe, released in 2023 and the upcoming Art! Trash! Terror! both from Britain’s Headpress Publishing.
Four week class taught online via Zoom
Dates: Tuesdays, July 15 - August 5, 2025
Time: 7-9 PM ET (NYC time)
Admission: $150 Patreon Members / $175 Regular Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace, The Raven, Masque of the Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia…
Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman’s adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories were popular in their time as escapist horror cinema. Most starred horror icon Vincent Price and were written (and “freely adapted”) by the likes of Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and Robert Towne. Today the series is recognized as unique and sophisticated, one that delivers decadent Gothic chills while exploring ideas of faith, sexuality, psychology and the supernatural. Though each of these pictures are unique, together they stand as a fully realized and consistent creative vision from one of the most important film figures of all time and his crack crew of craftspeople.
This 6-week course, an extension and expansion of Alexander's bestselling book Corman/Poe (2023), will take learners on an intelligent and energetic investigation into each one of these remarkable motion pictures individually, with analysis, discussion and debate...and perhaps even a special guest or two! Learners will come away from Corman/Poe with a deeper appreciation of the films themselves, and a thorough comprehension of their place in the fabric of film history.
Chris Alexander is a Canadian-based writer, filmmaker and music composer. He is the former editor-in-chief of iconic horror film magazine Fangoria and the editor-in-chief/co-founder of Delirium magazine as well as the writer, director and composer of numerous avant-garde feature horror movies, including Queen of Blood, Space Vampire, Scream of the Blind Dead, Parasite Lady, and Female Werewolf. He is a professor of horror film history at Canada’s Sheridan College and is the author of the bestselling book Corman/Poe, released in 2023 and the upcoming Art! Trash! Terror! both from Britain’s Headpress Publishing.
Four week class taught online via Zoom
Dates: Tuesdays, July 15 - August 5, 2025
Time: 7-9 PM ET (NYC time)
Admission: $150 Patreon Members / $175 Regular Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial, Tales of Terror, The Haunted Palace, The Raven, Masque of the Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia…
Produced on modest budgets for American International Pictures, Roger Corman’s adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories were popular in their time as escapist horror cinema. Most starred horror icon Vincent Price and were written (and “freely adapted”) by the likes of Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and Robert Towne. Today the series is recognized as unique and sophisticated, one that delivers decadent Gothic chills while exploring ideas of faith, sexuality, psychology and the supernatural. Though each of these pictures are unique, together they stand as a fully realized and consistent creative vision from one of the most important film figures of all time and his crack crew of craftspeople.
This 6-week course, an extension and expansion of Alexander's bestselling book Corman/Poe (2023), will take learners on an intelligent and energetic investigation into each one of these remarkable motion pictures individually, with analysis, discussion and debate...and perhaps even a special guest or two! Learners will come away from Corman/Poe with a deeper appreciation of the films themselves, and a thorough comprehension of their place in the fabric of film history.
Chris Alexander is a Canadian-based writer, filmmaker and music composer. He is the former editor-in-chief of iconic horror film magazine Fangoria and the editor-in-chief/co-founder of Delirium magazine as well as the writer, director and composer of numerous avant-garde feature horror movies, including Queen of Blood, Space Vampire, Scream of the Blind Dead, Parasite Lady, and Female Werewolf. He is a professor of horror film history at Canada’s Sheridan College and is the author of the bestselling book Corman/Poe, released in 2023 and the upcoming Art! Trash! Terror! both from Britain’s Headpress Publishing.