CORMAN NIGHT
X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES by Roger Corman
Sunday, September 21st at 9:00 PM
NEW VIDEODROME CINEMA – CINES TAMBERLICK
Screening: Original Version with Spanish subtitles.
This year, the festival introduces a new section aimed, on the one hand, to pay tribute to one of the great directors and producers in the history of B-movie cinema, and on the other hand, to introduce a cinema that has been an inspiration to many creators of the new generations.
We’re talking about the cinema of Roger Corman, the American film producer, actor, and director who is known for his numerous low-budget films. Under his direction, innumerable celebrities began their film careers, including directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, and James Cameron.
Among his best-known films stands out his series of period and gothic horror films based on Edgar Allan Poe stories, such as House of Usher (1960), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Raven (1963), and The Masque of the Red Death (1964), all of them starring the legendary Vincent Price.
In this case, continuing with the editorial line of this edition of the festival focused on paying tribute to mad doctor films, we will screen the film X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) in which actor Ray Milland plays an internationally prestigious scientist, who decides to test on himself a dangerous serum that provides X-ray vision bringing him, obviously, a fatal and unforgettable outcome.
A film that, in its day, stood out for its special effects and that today, after more than six decades, still has an impactful force that current films cannot boast of. A fun B-movie paranoia and a cult classic to be vindicated, which we will be able to enjoy for the first time on the big screen.
X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES
USA / 1963 / 80 min.
Roger Corman
Screening: Original Version with Spanish subtitles.
CAST: Ray Milland, Diana Van Der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles.
SCREENPLAY: Robert Dillon, Ray Russell
MUSIC: Les Baxter
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Floyd Crosby