Tales of Terror
A Trilogy of Shock and Horror!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 14, 2015
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: KL Studios Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Lorre, Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone | |
Performer: | Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Joyce Jameson, David Frankham, Lennie Weinrib & Wally Campo | |
Directed by | Roger Corman | |
Edited by | Anthony Carras | |
Screenplay by | Richard Matheson | |
Original story by | Edgar Allan Poe | |
Composition by | Les Baxter | |
Art Direction by | Daniel Haller | |
Produced by | Roger Corman | |
Director of Photography: | Floyd Crosby | |
Executive Production by | Samuel Z. Arkoff & James H. Nicholson |
Entertainment Reviews:
A lavish-looking, stylish piece of work.
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ESplatter
Rating: 3/5 --
Fun scares with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre via Roger Corman.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Rating: 3/5 --
A wonderful addition to the Poe-AIP canon.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Rating: C+ --
The film should appeal to fans of the weird and those with a campy sense of humor more than those who are more serious about drama and Poe.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 75/100 --
Anthology horror worthy of a stormy night.
Apollo Guide
...Three-part terror seems even better than it did in 1962...
USA Today
Rating: 7/10 --
An irreproachable one-stop shop for somebody looking to have a undemanding night with a CinemaScope Gothic shocker.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Product Description:
Three Edgar Allan Poe tales are brought to the screen in this devilishly fun anthology starring the great Vincent Price. The first, "Morella," finds a young woman (Maggie Pierce) visiting her father (Price) at their now-crumbling castle, where his mourning of her dead mother, Morella (Leona Gage), has taken on grim dimensions. The middle tale is a darkly comic adaptation of "The Black Cat" (with Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" woven in) that stars Peter Lorre as a drunken scoundrel who walls his wife (Joyce Jameson) and her lover (Price) up in his basement...alive. "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar" costars Basil Rathbone as a scheming doctor who uses hypnotism to keep his terminally ill patient (Price again) conscious after death. Part of a series of atmospheric Poe adaptations made in the 1960s by King of the Bs Roger Corman, TALES OF TERROR is presented in rich, moody color, with the stories linked by ominous narration and the pulse of a beating heart. The lyrical script is by Richard Matheson. Corman enjoyed working with Lorre in the comedic middle segment and tried a similar approach with the next film in the series, THE RAVEN.
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- UPC: 738329159528
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