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Release Date: 1962

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

Categories: Movies, Period piece, Horror, Costume Horror

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. It was the third in the series of eight Poe-based pictures directed by Corman for American International. (The Corman movie The Haunted Palace, ostensibly based on Poe, is a ring-in, since it was actually based on H. P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward). Cavett Binion in Allmovie notes, "Milland's performance conveys the requisite amount of... 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. It was the third in the series of eight Poe-based pictures directed by Corman for American International. (The Corman movie The Haunted Palace, ostensibly based on Poe, is a ring-in, since it was actually based on H. P. Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward). 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