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Release Date: 1964

Cast: Buddy Mason, Linda Rogers, Basil Rathbone, Peter Lorre, Beverly Powers, Orangey, Luree Holmes, Boris Karloff, Douglas Williams, Vincent Price

Categories: Movies, Horror, Horror Comedy, Parody, Comedy, Slasher

The Comedy of Terrors (1964) is an American International Pictures comedy horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and Joe E. Brown (in his final film appearance). The film also features Orangey the cat, billed as "Rhubarb the Cat". It is a rare blend of comedy and horror, much in the vein of Universal Pictures's 1948 classic Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The film recycles many of the character dynamics and situations (not to mention the cast) from the comedic "The Black Cat" segment of Tales of Terror, made... MORE

The Comedy of Terrors (1964) is an American International Pictures comedy horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and Joe E. Brown (in his final film appearance). The film also features Orangey the cat, billed as "Rhubarb the Cat". It is a rare blend of comedy and horror, much in the vein of Universal Pictures's 1948 classic Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The film recycles many of the character dynamics and situations (not to mention the cast) from the comedic "The Black Cat" segment of Tales of Terror, made by AIP the year before. A novelization of the film was written in 1964 by Elsie Lee adapted from Richard Matheson's screenplay and published by Lancer Books in paperback (making certain changes in the story's ending). Set sometime in the mid to late nineteenth century in New England, the film tells of unscrupulous undertaker Waldo Trumbull (Price), who murders people in their own homes in order to keep himself in business and to have enough money for drink. One night, after the widow of his last victim absconds to Europe without paying his fee, Trumbull and his reluctant assistant Felix Gillie LESS