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Tales of Terror (1962)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Comedy, Horror, Suspense/Thriller
Release Date:July 4, 1962
Running time:89 minutes
Cast:Vincent Price, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage, Edmund Cobb, Peter Lorre
Director:Roger Corman
Producer:Roger Corman
Writer:Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe
Distributor:American International Picture

Description: An omnibus film inspired by three different Edgar Allen Poe stories, each filmed in a week. The first is "Morella in which a woman's vengeful spirit returns from the grave to possess her daughter. The second, "The Black Cat", is a tale of a wine connoisseur who seals his wife and her lover in a wall, only to be foiled by the wailing cat mistakenly left with them. And the final one, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", features a terminally ill man who is kept alive in a hypnotic state by a devious doctor.

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