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Release Date: 1965 Cast: Ronald Adam, John Westbrook, Frank Thornton, Derek Francis, Elizabeth Shepherd, Richard Vernon, Denis Gilmore, Oliver Johnston, Penelope Lee, Vincent Price
Categories: Movies, Thriller, Horror, Costume drama, Gothic Film, Period piece, Costume Horror The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) is an American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd in a story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage. The screenplay by Robert Towne was based upon the tale "Ligeia" by American author Edgar Allan Poe. The film was directed by Roger Corman, and was the last in his series of eight Poe film adaptations. (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). Tomb of... MORE
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) is an American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd in a story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage. The screenplay by Robert Towne was based upon the tale "Ligeia" by American author Edgar Allan Poe. The film was directed by Roger Corman, and was the last in his series of eight Poe film adaptations. (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). Tomb of Ligeia was filmed in England (Castle Acre Priory among the other locations) with a mostly English cast, and is marked among the Corman/Poe canon for its atypical outdoor scenes and opulent settings.
Verden Fell (Vincent Price) is both mournful and threatened by his first wife's death. He senses her reluctance to die and her near-blasphemous statements about God. Alone and troubled by a vision problem that requires him to wear strange dark glasses, Fell shuns the world. Against his better judgement, he marries a headstrong young woman (Elizabeth Shepherd) he meets by accident and who is apparently LESS
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