Rendező:
Roger CormanForgatókönyvíró:
Richard MathesonOperatőr:
Floyd CrosbyZeneszerző:
Les BaxterSzereplők:
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Lennie Weinrib, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, David Frankham, Kenner G. Kemp, Maggie Pierce, Jack Tornek, Paul Bradley (több)Tartalmak(1)
From the haunting tales of Edgar Allan Poe, comes a chilling trilogy of terror. In MORELLA, Locke (Vincent Price) blames the death of his wife on their only child and sends her away. When she returns 26 years later, her mother's spirit inhabits her body and haunts the tortured man. In THE BLACK CAT, Fortunato (Price) takes a drunken montresor (Peter Lorre) home and falls in love with the montresor's wife... so the jealous montresor takes revenge and buries them both alive. IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR, Valdemar (Price) seeks relief from M. Carmichael (Basil Rathbone), an evil mesmerist. Carmichael has designs on Valdemar's wife and holds him in a tortured state between life and death...until death itself intervenes. (forgalmazó hivatalos szövege)
(több)Recenziók (2)
When in the first scene the protagonist comes out of the thick fog and walks into an old castle perched on a cliff above the sea, and inside finds an eccentric Vincent Price, I popped open the Champagne and cheered at the unprecedented originality. Really, it’s a Corman adaptation of Poe like from a copy machine, but it doesn’t really matter, because those things do have something. It’s a pity that the first story is not surprising in any interesting way, because the atmosphere is great. The second story is more black humour than horror, but still a lot of fun. The third story fizzled out during the night. 7/10
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Roger Corman and his actors did a great job, and Tales of Terror is a classic of its genre, a classic associated with the name of Edgar Allan Poe, showing that this is something that may age, but it doesn't matter at all because these films still have a specific atmosphere, given by the fact that they were shot indoors but with the intention to scare the audience. Some of the masks and special effects are very decent and have not aged at all.
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