The Premature Burial (Episode 28) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

After a dispute over royalties for his two previous Edgar Allen Poe film adaptations, producer/director Roger Corman and American International Pictures decided to part ways. Corman approached Pathe Film to finance and release his next feature, another Poe page-to-screen effort, The Premature Burial.  He cast Ray Milland because his first choice, Vincent Price, was under contract with AIP.  Little did Corman know, however, that AIP was in the process of buying Pathe Films and soon found himself an employee of AIP again and his new film the property of the studio.   Dan and Vicky examine the taphophobic classic and how casting Ray Milland makes it different from Corman's more popular Vincent Price led Poe films.  They discuss recent watches like The Incredible Melting Man from 1977, Masque of the Red Death from 1964, the new thriller Green Room and the Maggie Smith vehicle Lady in the Van.  They also get on the Hot Date soapbox about separating an artist from his or her questionable real life actions and list some of their other favorite buried alive films like Buried, The Vanishing, and Serpent and the Rainbow. You'd be making a "grave" error by missing Hot Date 28: The Premature Burial.