Coming up on Saturday at the Described Movies: Bedlam, Horror Hotel, and Tarantula.

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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 5pm Saturday in NZ, 3pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Bedlam from 1946, Horror Hotel from 1960, and Tarantula from 1955.
Bedlam is a 1946 American horror film directed by Mark Robson and starring Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, and Richard Fraser, and was the last in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures.
The film was inspired by William Hogarth's 1732–1734 painting series A Rake's Progress, and Hogarth was given a writing credit.
Directed by: Mark Robson.
Written by: William Hogarth (A Rake's Progress), and Val Lewton, and Mark Robson.
Produced by: Val Lewton.
Starring: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, and Billy House.
Cinematography: Nicholas Musuraca.
Edited by: Lyle Boyer.
Music by: Roy Webb.
Production company: RKO Radio Pictures.
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures.
Release date: 10 May 1946.
File Length: 79 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $350,000.
The City of the Dead (U.S. title: Horror Hotel) is a 1960 supernatural horror film directed by John Llewellyn Moxey and starring Christopher Lee, Venetia Stevenson, Betta St. John, Patricia Jessel and Valentine Dyall.
The film marks the directorial debut of Moxey.
It was produced in the United Kingdom but set in America, and the British actors were required to speak with North American accents throughout.
Directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey (as John Moxey).
Screenplay by: George Baxt.
Story by: Milton Subotsky.
Produced by: Seymour S. Dorner, Max Rosenberg (uncredited), Milton Subotsky, and Donald Taylor.
Starring: Christopher Lee, Venetia Stevenson, Betta St. John, Dennis Lotis, Valentine Dyall, and Patricia Jessel.
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson.
Edited by: John Pomeroy.
Music by: Douglas Gamley, and Ken Jones (jazz)
Production Company: Vulcan.
Distributed by: British Lion.
Release dates: September 1960 (UK), and 1961 (US).
File Length: 77 minutes.
Country: United Kingdom.
Language: English.
Budget: £45,000 or £47,341.
Tarantula is a 1955 American science-fiction monster film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold.
It stars John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll.
The film is about a scientist developing a miracle nutrient to feed a rapidly growing human population.
In its unperfected state, the nutrient causes extraordinarily rapid growth, creating a deadly problem when a tarantula test subject escapes and continues to grow larger and larger.
The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold, which was in turn inspired by Fresco's teleplay for the 1955 Science Fiction Theatre episode "No Food for Thought", also directed by Arnold.
The film was distributed by Universal Pictures as a Universal-International release and reissued in 1962 through Sherman S. Krellberg's Ultra Pictures.
Directed by: Jack Arnold.
Screenplay by: Robert M. Fresco, and Martin Berkeley.
Story by: Jack Arnold, and Robert M. Fresco.
Based on: "No Food for Thought" (teleplay, Science Fiction Theatre, May 17, 1955) by Robert M. Fresco.
Produced by: William Alland.
Starring: John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll.
Cinematography: George Robinson.
Edited by: William Morgan.
Music by: Henry Mancini, and Herman Stein.
Colour process: Black and white.
Production Company: Universal Pictures.
Distributed by: Universal-International.
Release dates: 23 November 1955 (Los Angeles), and 23 December 1955 (United States).
File Length: 76 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Box office: $1.1 million (US and Canadian rentals).
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