USA, 1962
89m
35mm film, Panavision (anamorphic), colour, 2.35:1
mono, English
An American anthology horror film directed by Roger Corman and based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
Plot Summary
A trilogy of stories adapted from the stories of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited but feelings over the the death of his wife still run high with catastrophic and horrific results; jealousy rears its ugly head when a down-and-out challenges a wine devotee to a drinking competition and falls for his wife; at the point of dying, an agonised man is hypnotized to keep him in a limbo between life and death.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Roger Corman
© by Alta Vista Productions MCMLXII [1962]
An American International picture. James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff have presented
Executive Producers: James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff
Produced by: Roger Corman
Screenplay by: Richard Matheson
Based on three Edgar Allan Poe stories [Morella, The Black Cat and The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, with material additional from The Cask of Amontillado]
Director of Photography: Floyd Crosby
Film Editor: Anthony Carras
Music by : Les Baxter
Sound: John Bury
Wardrobe: Marjorie Corso
Makeup: Lou La Cava
Special Effects: Pat Dinga
Photographic Effects: Butler-Glouner Inc.
Production Design and Art Direction: Daniel Haller
Cast
Morella
Vincent Price as Locke
Maggie Pierce as Lenora
Leona Gage as Morella
The Black Cat
Vincent Price as Fortunato
Peter Lorre as Montresor [Herringbone]
Joyce Jameson as Annabel [Herringbone]
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Vincent Price as Valdemar
Basil Rathbone as Carmichael
Debra Paget as Helene [Valdemar]
David Frankham as Dr [Elliot] James
also
Lennie Weinrib [policemen]
Wally Campo [barman Wilkins]
Alan DeWitt [chairman of wine society]
John Hackett [policemen]
Ed Cobb [driver]
Scott Brown
Alternative Titles
Cuentos de terror – Argentina, Venezuela
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Terror
L'Empire de la terreur – France
Der Grauenvolle Mr X – Germany
Historias de terror – Spain
Kauhutarinoita – Finland
Poe's Tales of Terror
I racconti del terrore – Italy
Rædslernes trio – Denmark
Schwarze Geschichten – Germany
En Studie i skräck – Sweden
Links
See also
Due occhi diabolici (1990)
Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Matinee (1993)
Extracts included in
Madhouse (1974)
Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature (2001)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein no.3 p.4
- Castle of Frankenstein no.4 p.6
- Strange Adventures vol.2 no.7 (no.19 August 1990) pp.7-10 – illustrated article (The curse of Corman by Tony Cotterell)
- We Belong Dead no.29 (Autumn 2021) pp.12-13 – illustrated article (The black laboratory of John Llewellyn Probert: The black cat o'nine tales by John Llewellyn Probert)
Books
- American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography by Rob Craig pp.359-360
- American International Pictures: A Filmography by Robert L. Ottoson p.84-85 – credits, synopsis, review
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.146
- Classic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them by Ron Backer pp.151-155
- Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008 by Bruce G. Hallenbeck pp.214 – credits
- A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series by Ken Hanke pp.219-220; 223
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.121
- Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures by Mark Thomas McGee pp.198-200, 276; 325
- Feature Films, 1960-1969: A Filmography of English-language and Major Foreign-language United States Releases by Harris M. Lentz III p.452
- The Films of Vincent Price by Iain F. McAsh pp.18-19; 43
- Horrorshows: The A-Z of Horror in Film, TV, Radio and Theatre by Gene Wright p.263 – credits, review
- Merchant of Menace: The Life and Films of Vincent Price by Denis Meikle pp.157-166; 360-361
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.474 – credits
- Richard Matheson on Screen: A History of the Filmed Works by Matthew R. Bradley pp.101-107
- Rock ‘n' Roll Monsters: The American International Story by Bruce G. Hallenbeck pp.131-134; 290
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film Sequels, Series, and Remakes by Kim R. Holston and Tom Winchester p.169
- Sixties Shockers by Mark Clark and Bryan Senn p.378
- Vincent Price: The Art of Fear by Denis Meikle pp.85-89; 224
- Vincent Price Unmasked by James Robert Parish and Steven Whitney pp.109-110; 213-214
- Women in the Horror Films of Vincent Price by Jonathan Malcolm Lampley pp.63-72; 192
