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Four Poe stories
- Sitting in Price’s Spanish mansion drinking tea, Johnson, along with Price and his family, hammered out the details: four Poe stories, all written in the first person and all of them performed by Price.
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Vincent Price was, well, Vincent Price – the iconic cackling villain in dozens of horror flicks including Roger Corman’s campy cinematic adaptations of Poe – The House of Usher, The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death.
- 'Tales of Terror'
- 'The Haunted Palace'
- 'The Masque of The Red Death'
- 'The Tomb of Ligeia'
- 'The Raven'
- 'The Pit and The Pendulum'
- 'House of Usher'
Bringing to screen multiple Poe works, Tales of Terror breaks down into short installments of the short stories. While RT and IMDb refer to the anthology film as covering three tales, Turner Classic Movies lists Tale of Terror as an adaptation of four short stories: "Morella," "The Black Cat," "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemart," and "The Cask of A...
Based on the Poe poem of the same name, this film also draws inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft'sstory "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." Price stars as two characters, Charles Dexter Ward, who inherits the house of his ancestor Joseph Curwen, a warlock who cursed the small New England village where the house stands just before being burned alive. Thi...
Price stars as 12th Century Prince Prospero, a prince who worships Satan and is devoted to evil. He uses his castle to hide from the Red Death plague decimating the peasant population around him. The film is based on Poe's short story and the last Poe adaptation feature the pair would do, another double-release year with The Tomb of Ligeia also rel...
Based on another short story, this film finds Price as Verden Fell, a widower who finds himself married again, but the spirit of his first wife is forcing herself between Fell from him and his new bride. This film sneaks in as the final time the pair would bring Poe to the screen as its UK release dated November 1964, just after The Masque of the R...
Its title speaks for itself. Corman's version of the famous poem expands the premise into a more magical one. Price stars as Magician Erasmus Craven, who is deeply depressed after the death of his wife, Lenore (Hazel Court). Craven is visited by a raven that turns out to be Adolphus Bedlo (Peter Lorre), who had been transformed into a bird by the e...
The second film for the Poe collaborators, The Pit and the Pendulum, features a familial triangle. Francis (John Kerr) believes his sister Elizabeth's (Barbara Steele) premature death may not be what it seems when he learns her husband Nicholas's (Price) mother was buried alive. As he investigates, he begins to believe Elizabeth's spirit wanders th...
The first and highest-rated Corman-Price adaptation, House of Usher remains their most iconic film of the seven. Starring Price as Roderick Usher, the film's shortened title embodies the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher," a tale of family, curses, ghosts, and brick walls. Critics and audiences enjoyed the wide range of genres from strang...
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In it, Price-as-Poe takes the stage and, over the course of an hour, weaves into his performance four of his most enduring stories: “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Sphinx,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum.”
Oct 9, 2019 · One absolutely perfect pairing was Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price who were asked to read the works of Edgar Allan Poe over the course of 5 hours. Rathbone, a South African-born Shakespearean actor, is most famous for playing Sherlock Holmes in movies and radio plays, as well as low-budget horror films like The Black Sheep.
Oct 28, 2020 · Vincent Price delivers four thoroughly different experiences, simultaneously offering a diverse sampler of Edgar Allan Poe’s impressive works and showcasing his immense capabilities as an actor.
He collaborated with Roger Corman on a series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, including House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Haunted Palace (1963), and The Masque of the Red Death (1964). Price appeared in the television series Batman as Egghead.
Jan 19, 2016 · Probably the best known poem by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven is given the Vincent Price treatment. It may not be the clearest sounding of the available recordings, but it is my favourite; I hope you enjoy it too.
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