Top-notch horror movie with three sensational veteran actors who supply entertainment and amusement . Roger Corman horror movie with an exceptional trio who provides much fun : Price , Lorre and Rathbone . Adding a glimmer cinematography in magnificence color by the series usual , Floyd Crosby , as well as frightening and atmospheric musical score fitting to horror by Les Baxter . Delightful terror film formed by three segments : ¨Morella¨, "The Black Cat" and "The Case of M. Valdemar" , dealing with : 1º episode involving a weird man (grieving widower Vincent Price is without peer providing an inimitable presence) , the daughter (Maggie Pierce) he abandoned and a supernatutal appearance . 2º a drunkard (Peter Lorre) challenges the local wine-tasting champion (Vincent Price) to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife (Joyce Jameson) and his black cat . 3º a hypnotist (Basil Rathbone) who prolongs the moment of a man's death (Vincent Price) .
This is a true terror movie with some satirical elements , it is immaculately staged , stylishly realized , very literate , rich in atmosphere , confidently made and plenty of eye-popping scenes . May be one of the most successful Roger Corman terror films ever realized with a considerable all-star-cast and original invention . Terror has strangely been more skillfully made than in this agreeable horror Roger Corman directed and realized in glorious fashion . Chilling sense of the sinister , great imagination , Daniel Haller's stunning settings , Floyd Crosby's colorful cinematography and Les Baxter's frightening musical score make this low-budgeted Edgar Allan Poe 's famous tales highly effective . The movie is realized in the same style as the successful adaptation Edgar Allen Poe series , the cycle of " The pit and the pendulum", "The fall of the House of Usher" , ¨Tales of Terror¨ , and especially ¨The Raven¨ with the trio Price, Lorre , Karloff directed by Roger Corman and produced by James H Nicholson and Samuel Z Arkoff . That's why it packs usual Corman's striking scenarios including lugubrious mansions , colorful atmosphere , shrieks come from gloomy scenes and gleeful gallery of ghoulishness.
The flick based on Richard Matheson's screenplay playing to spectator in amusing fashion, being one of the spookiest and most thrilling of the Roger Corman/Poe adaptations. In spite of his poverty-budget horror is deemed a minor cult and gave enough profit from minimal inversion . The motion picture is produced by American International (James H Nicholson , Samuel Z. Arkoff) in a short budget and well directed by the classic director Roger Corman . 'Tales of terror' is a sensational terror film that maintains its classicism and reaching impressive dimensions . This famous producer and filmmaker directed lots of films in all kinds of genres , outstanding in Edgar Allan Poe cycle and other terror pictures , such as : "The Fall of the House of Usher" , "The Pit and the Pendulum" , "Tales of Terror" , "The Raven" , "The Terror", "The Haunted Palace", "Tower of London" , "Masque of the Red Death" , "Tomb of Ligeia" , "Frankenstein Unbound" , among others . Rating : Better than average , being a minor classic of its genre . It will appeal to youngsters and adults who swallow whole and sit convulsed in their armchair and , of course, Vincent Price , Rathbone , Lorre fans. A must see for all horror buffs.
This is a true terror movie with some satirical elements , it is immaculately staged , stylishly realized , very literate , rich in atmosphere , confidently made and plenty of eye-popping scenes . May be one of the most successful Roger Corman terror films ever realized with a considerable all-star-cast and original invention . Terror has strangely been more skillfully made than in this agreeable horror Roger Corman directed and realized in glorious fashion . Chilling sense of the sinister , great imagination , Daniel Haller's stunning settings , Floyd Crosby's colorful cinematography and Les Baxter's frightening musical score make this low-budgeted Edgar Allan Poe 's famous tales highly effective . The movie is realized in the same style as the successful adaptation Edgar Allen Poe series , the cycle of " The pit and the pendulum", "The fall of the House of Usher" , ¨Tales of Terror¨ , and especially ¨The Raven¨ with the trio Price, Lorre , Karloff directed by Roger Corman and produced by James H Nicholson and Samuel Z Arkoff . That's why it packs usual Corman's striking scenarios including lugubrious mansions , colorful atmosphere , shrieks come from gloomy scenes and gleeful gallery of ghoulishness.
The flick based on Richard Matheson's screenplay playing to spectator in amusing fashion, being one of the spookiest and most thrilling of the Roger Corman/Poe adaptations. In spite of his poverty-budget horror is deemed a minor cult and gave enough profit from minimal inversion . The motion picture is produced by American International (James H Nicholson , Samuel Z. Arkoff) in a short budget and well directed by the classic director Roger Corman . 'Tales of terror' is a sensational terror film that maintains its classicism and reaching impressive dimensions . This famous producer and filmmaker directed lots of films in all kinds of genres , outstanding in Edgar Allan Poe cycle and other terror pictures , such as : "The Fall of the House of Usher" , "The Pit and the Pendulum" , "Tales of Terror" , "The Raven" , "The Terror", "The Haunted Palace", "Tower of London" , "Masque of the Red Death" , "Tomb of Ligeia" , "Frankenstein Unbound" , among others . Rating : Better than average , being a minor classic of its genre . It will appeal to youngsters and adults who swallow whole and sit convulsed in their armchair and , of course, Vincent Price , Rathbone , Lorre fans. A must see for all horror buffs.