THE RAVEN, released on this day
On this day--25 January--in 1963, Roger Corman’s THE RAVEN first hit the screen. On paper, the film is an adaptation of the poem of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. In practice, it just uses the poem as a jumping-off point for a raucous horror comedy about dueling wizards written by dark fantasy legend Richard Matheson, directed by the Pope of Pop Cinema and starring genre royalty.
An appreciation:
https://jriddle.medium.com/quoth-the-raven-1963-forevermore-c039a67a8fed