Tales of Terror (Blu-ray)
A Trilogy of Shock and Horror!
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 14, 2015
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Lorre, Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone | |
Performer: | Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Joyce Jameson, David Frankham, Lennie Weinrib & Wally Campo | |
Directed by | Roger Corman | |
Edited by | Anthony Carras | |
Screenplay by | Richard Matheson | |
Original story by | Edgar Allan Poe | |
Composition by | Les Baxter | |
Art Direction by | Daniel Haller | |
Produced by | Roger Corman | |
Director of Photography: | Floyd Crosby | |
Executive Production by | Samuel Z. Arkoff & James H. Nicholson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Não deixa de ser problemático que o mais eficaz dos episódios seja justamente aquele que carregue no humor (e, por sinal, Price e Lorre estão divertidíssimos em suas cenas conjuntas).
Cinema em Cena
A lavish-looking, stylish piece of work.
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ESplatter
Rating: A- --
[VIDEO] Roger Corman's status as a reliable creator of pulpy low-budget horror movies was firmly established by 1962, when he made "Tales of Terror."
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Among the least of the Corman-Price Poe pictures, but rendered imperishable by its hilarious/horrific wine-tasting scene between Peter Lorre and Vincent Price.
Fort Worth Business Press
Rating: 3/4 --
"The Black Cat" is the best story in the trilogy, a humorous tale that benefits from some unique technical tricks, a nifty twist ending and especially a wonderful performance by Peter Lorre.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 75/100 --
Anthology horror worthy of a stormy night.
Apollo Guide
...Three-part terror seems even better than it did in 1962...
USA Today
Product Description:
Three Edgar Allan Poe tales are brought to the screen in this devilishly fun anthology starring the great Vincent Price. The first, "Morella," finds a young woman (Maggie Pierce) visiting her father (Price) at their now-crumbling castle, where his mourning of her dead mother, Morella (Leona Gage), has taken on grim dimensions. The middle tale is a darkly comic adaptation of "The Black Cat" (with Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" woven in) that stars Peter Lorre as a drunken scoundrel who walls his wife (Joyce Jameson) and her lover (Price) up in his basement...alive. "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar" costars Basil Rathbone as a scheming doctor who uses hypnotism to keep his terminally ill patient (Price again) conscious after death. Part of a series of atmospheric Poe adaptations made in the 1960s by King of the Bs Roger Corman, TALES OF TERROR is presented in rich, moody color, with the stories linked by ominous narration and the pulse of a beating heart. The lyrical script is by Richard Matheson. Corman enjoyed working with Lorre in the comedic middle segment and tried a similar approach with the next film in the series, THE RAVEN.