Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Edmund Cobb

An omnibus film inspired by three different Edgar Allen Poe stories, each filmed in a week. The first is "Morella in which a woman's vengeful spirit returns from the grave to possess her daughter. The...( read more  read more... ) second, "The Black Cat", is a tale of a wine connoisseur who seals his wife and her lover in a wall, only to be foiled by the wailing cat mistakenly left with them. And the final one, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", features a terminally ill man who is kept alive in a hypnotic state by a devious doctor.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Roger Corman

Release Date: July 4, 1962

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DVD Release Date: September 19, 2000

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  • April 27, 2009
    It would be difficult, if not impossible, to go wrong when you combine the tales of Edgar Allan Poe with the talents of Vincent Price. But wait, there's more! Throw in a villainous Basil Rathbone and an aging but still charming Peter Lorre and you've got a campy cult classic. ...( read more)Episodic 60's horror at it's cheesy best.
  • July 22, 2008
    A fun anthology of short stories based on work by Edgar Allan Poe. All of the three segments are very well-made, and with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone together, genre fans mustn't miss out.
  • March 10, 2008
    The splendid triad Price, Lorre and Rathbone star this fun anthology loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, all segments have the presence of ravishing women, and also a camp, silly but delightful parodic tone. you won't be scared, but you'll have a tremendous blast.
  • January 8, 2008
    This is pretty cool...
  • November 4, 2007
    Fun and entertaining Corman/Price fare. Great lighting (thanks Mario Bava!!!) and imagery. Vincent Price is his usual great self as always. If you can appreciate a good, classic, atmospheric period horror flick this may be the trick. If you're an Edgar Allen Poe enthusiast you mi...( read more)ght be gravely disappointed. It's more fun than scary or creepy but definitely not a bad watch.
  • October 31, 2009
    I'm pretty sure I would watch Vincent Price and Peter Lorre weave baskets for ninety minutes.
  • October 22, 2009
    Unfortunately, the finest of the three stories is the one that goes for the laughs - and, by the way, Price and Lorre are really fun together here.
  • October 19, 2009
    another 3 tales of terror .. starring the usual suspects (price,rathbone, lorre)
  • September 22, 2009
    Roger Corman supplies a good horror trilogy w/ Vincent Price in all three tales. Laced w/ black comedy throughout w/ the best segment in the middle featuring Peter Lorre & Vincent Price in a wine drinking competition. Lorre is such a wife abusing drunk that he reminds me of And...( read more)y Capp
  • August 11, 2009
    Interesante, pero Enrique Carreras adapto mejor a Poe dos anos antes

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  • In the sixties, Hammer's rival Amicus came up with their "anthology series" of films that linked several short horror stories together through the use of one unrelated central theme. Which of these films was NOT one of those?  Answer »

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