Tales of Terror

TALES OF TERROR is a 1962 horror movie starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Basil Rathbone, directed by Roger Corman, which comprised of three sequences each based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. The episodes are "Morella" (which actually resembles Poe's "Ligeia"), "The Black Cat" (which contains elements from "The Cask of Amontillado"), and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar." Although loosely adapted by Richard Matheson, the half-hour for... more

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  • Jul 4, 1962

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  • 89 min (53 hs )

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926), sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this as inaccurate), is an American producer and director of low-budget movies, some of which have an established critical reputation: his cycle of films derived...

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