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Tales of Terror is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roger Corman released in USA on 4 july 1962 with Vincent Price
Tales of Terror (1962)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 july 1962
Length 1h29
Directed by Roger Corman
OriginUSA
Themes Comedy horror films
Rating67%
Tales of Terror (1962) is an American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Basil Rathbone; it is the fourth in the so-called Corman-Poe cycle of eight films largely featuring adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Roger Corman and released by AIP. The film was released as a double feature with Panic in Year Zero!.
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The film uses an anthology format, presenting three short sequences based on the following Poe tales: "Morella", "The Black Cat" (which is combined with another Poe tale, "The Cask of Amontillado"), and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". Each sequence is introduced via voiceover narration by Vincent Price, who also appears in all three narratives. The story Morella was remade in the 1990s as The Haunting of Morella.Actors
Vincent Price
(Locke / Fortunato / Valdemar / Narrator)
Peter Lorre
(Montresor ("The Black Cat"))
Basil Rathbone
(Carmichael ("The Case of M. Valdemar"))
Debra Paget
(Helene ("The Case of M. Valdemar"))
Edmund F. Cobb
(Driver ("Morella"))
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