Tales of Terror: Widescreen 2.35:1, Standard 1.33:1.
Three Edgar Allan Poe tales are brought to the screen in this devilishly fun anthology starring the great Vincent Price. The first, "Morella," finds a young woman visiting her father at their now-crumbling castle, where his mourning of her dead mother, Morella, has taken on grim dimensions. The middle tale is a darkly comic adaptation of "The Black Cat" (with Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" woven in) that stars Peter Lorre as a drunken scoundrel who walls his wife and her lover up in his basement...alive. "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar" costars Basil Rathbone as a scheming doctor who uses hypnotism to keep his terminally ill patient conscious after death. Part of a series of atmospheric Poe adaptations made in the 1960s by King of the Bs Roger Corman, TALES OF TERROR is presented in rich, moody color, with the stories linked by ominous narration and the pulse of a beating heart. The lyrical script is by Richard Matheson. Corman enjoyed working with Lorre in the comedic middle segment and tried a similar approach with the next film in the series, THE RAVEN.
Twice-Told Tales: Widescreen 1:66,
Vincent Price stars in a trio of Nathaniel Hawthorne thrillers. Titles include: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" - Dr. Heidegger becomes involved in an attempt to give his friends back their youth. "Rappaccini's Daughter" - Rappaccini traps his daughter in the garden with regular doses of poison. "The House of the Seven Gables" - One brother frames another for murder when they inherit a large house.