The Tomb of Ligeia (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 7, 2021
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vincent Price & Elizabeth Shepherd | |
Performer: | Oliver Johnston, Richard Vernon & Frank Thornton | |
Directed by | Roger Corman | |
Screenplay by | Robert Towne | |
Original story by | Edgar Allan Poe | |
Composition by | Kenneth V. Jones | |
Director of Photography: | Arthur Grant |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
interesting in a morbid sort of way.
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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Rating: C- --
Another film based on the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and directed by Roger Corman. The least effective of the ten Poe films. It often drags and Price seems miscast.
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Movie Chambers
The latest and best of the Price/Corman/Allan Poe chiller-dillers relies less on Gothic gimmicks and more on odd quirks of the human personality, all set in the ravishingly English setting of an abandoned abbey.
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Maclean's Magazine
The color correction here marks a decidedly decadent atmosphere, which evolves from the romantic initial scenes to the fiery climax. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
A creepy and atmospheric ghost movie.
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StaciWilson.com
To have one's pulse race when turning the pages of "Ligeia" - or, indeed, while watching Corman's film - isn't merely to fall into Poe's literary trap, it's to somehow be in communion with the dead author.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
This was the last of Corman's Poe films, but it is clear that the well of ideas had not run dry.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Product Description:
Oscar-winning scribe Robert Towne (CHINATOWN) wrote the screenplay--based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "Ligeia"--for this moody, macabre romance starring Vincent Price. A fox-hunting accident introduces vivacious Lady Rowena (Elizabeth Shepherd) to brooding neighbor Verden Fell (Price). They fall in love despite his penchant for sitting around his gloomy, cobwebbed abbey, obsessing over Ligeia, his dead wife. After they return from the honeymoon, Rowena finds life at the abbey pretty distressing, as the spirit of Ligeia keeps appearing in, among other guises, the form of a malicious black cat. It all leads to a kinky, ghoulish climax, with plenty of shocks, mesmerism, implied drug addiction, and necrophelia along the way. This was the last of the string of color Poe adaptations made by King of the B's Roger Corman. Stunning outdoor photography by Hammer Films veteran Arthur Grant gives it a more realistic look than most of Corman's pictures, and Shepherd is a great heroine, delivering a mature and sexy performance. Price is unusually restrained as Verden, helping to make this more of an in-depth, Freudian study of obsession as opposed to the usual straight-up gothic horror that fans may expect.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 74,325
- UPC: 738329254964
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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