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The Premature Burial [Blu-ray]

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  • Actors: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Alan Napier, Dick Miller
  • Directors: Roger Corman
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Anamorphic, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Kino Lorber
  • DVD Release Date: May 12, 2015
  • Run Time: 81 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (225 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00U0SSD0G
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,694 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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By Robert Amsel on January 30, 2005
During the 1960s, American International primarily introduced low-budgeted movies geared usually for drive-ins. By some mistake, "Wild in the Streets" turned out to be both a hit and a perennial cult favorite. Deservedly so. It is probably one of the most subversive satires ever produced for the American screen. In September of 2004, it was finally released as part of a double-sided MGM Midnight Movies selection on DVD. (The flip side is one of Roger Corman's worst movies, GAS-S-S-S-S, a sophomoric comedy doubtless inspired by "Wild in the Street"'s success. Skip it.)

What is particularly strange is that "Wild in the Streets" appears to have been unreleased as soon as it was released. If you check MGM's website, you will not find it listed in MGM's inventory. Nor will you find it listed as available on Amazon or most places. In fact, the only retail place online you can find it is at BestBuy. However, it does not appear to be available at most of BestBuy's actual stores. Did the idea of a fascistic dictatorship taking over America somehow offend the current Administration or offend executives at MGM? Just a question since I'm not privy to why it's being censored.

At any rate, I would suggest that the movie's admirers buy the DVD when or where they can, since they might not have a second chance. The movie itself was released in 1968 while the Vietnam War raged on -- and on and on and on. This is important to understanding the film in its historical context. "Wild in the Streets" has several premises. The first is that the old fogies in Washington are destroying the country. Although Vietnam is not mentioned (read Iraq, if you want to bring the premise up to date), the draft certainly is on the moviemakers's minds.
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Ever conscious of cashing in on whatever trend might have been fashionable at the time, American International Pictures (AIP) focused their sights on the ever-growing youth movement of the mid to late 60s with this frightening (if you were over 60) tale of youthful revolution in Wild in the Streets (1968). Directed by Barry Shear, whose primary credits include TV shows like "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "Ironside", and "Hawaii Five-O", to name a few, the film stars Christopher Jones (The Looking Glass War), an actor once thought by many to be perhaps the next James Dean or Marlon Brando, but whose fortunes and star potential faded due to, what some speculate, the strain of having to live up to the expectations beyond his grasp...oh yeah, that and the all the drugs, as highlighted in `Christopher Jones: The E! True Hollywood Story'...also appearing is Oscar winner Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita), Diane Varsi (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden), Hal Holbrook (Creepshow), Millie Perkins (The Diary of Anne Frank), Ed Begley (12 Angry Men), Bert Freed (Nevada Smith), and Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy).

As the story begins, we witness an intelligent and precocious boy named Max Flatow (played by Barry Williams, better know as the character Greg Brady, from The Brady Bunch), Jr. grow into a disillusioned young adult who decides to leave home, severing his family ties, and make it own his own (given his mother, played by Winters, I didn't blame him). By the age of 22 we learn he's not only changed his name to Max Frost, but that he's also become a famous recording star, and with the help of his entourage (none over the age of 25), become the head of a multi-million dollar empire.
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Roger Corman is perhaps most famous for eight films—seven vaguely based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe and one based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft—made during the 1960s. Although they were quickly and cheaply made, these films were generally admired for their style, and several were unexpectedly successful with both critics and at the box office.

Vincent Price starred in all but one of these eight films, with THE PREMATURE BURIAL the single exception, which stars Ray Milland. Price was under contract to American International Pictures, which produced and distributed Corman’s films—but Corman had a dispute with API and took BURIAL to a different studio. API would not release Price to appear in the film and Corman hired Milland as a result. Ironically, API essentially bought out the competing studio before the production started, so BURIAL turned out to be an API film whether Corman liked it or not.

The movie is not so much based on the Poe story as it is suggested by it. Guy Carrell (Milland) has developed a psychotic fear of premature burial, so much so that he calls off his impending marriage to Emily (Hazel Court.) She convinces him that he love is strong enough to save him, and they marry—during a violent thunderstorm, no less—but the vows are barely spoken when Guy’s paranoia breaks forth in a number of bizarre ways. This being a thriller, there are several twists, but most of them are rather obvious. The real appeal is in the excessive performances, the fog-shrouded sets, the gothic sets, and the lavish costumes, all of them filtered through a 1960s sensibility.

THE PREMATURE BURIAL isn’t the best of Corman’s Poe films, but it’s fun and worth watching. The film has been released in several DVD editions, some with bonus material and some without.
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