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Release Date: 1962

Cast: Debra Paget, David Frankham, Joyce Jameson, Mary Leona Gage, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Maggie Pierce, Basil Rathbone

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Horror, Gothic Film, Zombie, Horror Comedy, Film adaptation, Costume Horror

Tales of Terror (1962) is an American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Basil Rathbone; it is the fourth in a series of eight adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Roger Corman and released by AIP. (The Corman movie The Haunted Palace, ostensibly also based on Poe, is a ring-in, since it was actually based on H. P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward). The three short sequences are based on the following Poe tales: "Morella", "The Black Cat" which is combined with another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Facts in... MORE

Tales of Terror (1962) is an American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Basil Rathbone; it is the fourth in a series of eight adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Roger Corman and released by AIP. (The Corman movie The Haunted Palace, ostensibly also based on Poe, is a ring-in, since it was actually based on H. P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward). The three short sequences are based on the following Poe tales: "Morella", "The Black Cat" which is combined with another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". Each sequence is introduced by Vincent Price who also appears in all three narratives. When Lenora Locke (Maggie Pierce) travels from Boston to be reunited with her father (Vincent Price) in his decrepit and cobwebbed mansion, she finds him drunk, disordered, and depressed. He refuses her company, insisting that she killed her mother Morella (Leona Gage) in childbirth. Lenora then discovers her mother's body decomposing on a bed in the house. Lenora cannot return to Boston and remains in the house to care for her father. His feelings soften towards her when he learns she LESS