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Release Date: 1962

Cast: Ray Milland, Don Rickles, Alan Napier, Harold J. Stone, Hazel Court, John Hoyt, Richard Ney, Heather Angel

Categories: Movies, Horror, Costume Horror, Period Piece

The Premature Burial (1962) is an American International Pictures horror film, directed by Roger Corman and starring Ray Milland, screenplay by Charles Beaumont and Ray Russell based upon the story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. Cavett Binion in Allmovie notes, "Milland's performance conveys the requisite amount of hand-wringing torment (in the mode of The Lost Weekend), even if he fails to capture the manic intensity that Price brought to the other Poe films. Corman's deft direction, employing a rich palette of colors and superb widescreen compositions, is on a par with the series'... MORE

The Premature Burial (1962) is an American International Pictures horror film, directed by Roger Corman and starring Ray Milland, screenplay by Charles Beaumont and Ray Russell based upon the story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. Cavett Binion in Allmovie notes, "Milland's performance conveys the requisite amount of hand-wringing torment (in the mode of The Lost Weekend), even if he fails to capture the manic intensity that Price brought to the other Poe films. Corman's deft direction, employing a rich palette of colors and superb widescreen compositions, is on a par with the series' finest installments." The film won a 1962 Golden Laurel Sleeper of the Year Award. LESS