Edgar Allan Poe on the big screen. Francis Barnard travels to Spain when he learns that his sister is dead. Her husband, an offspring of a notorious torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him that she died from a blood disease. The evidence, though, indicates otherwise!
Classic Vincent Price in a classy film by none other than Roger Corman. A little bit too classy for Corman's filmography, but the work her is done. Corman manages to portray the essence of Poe's work without taking ti too far. You willenjoy all the doom and gloom of Poe's writing, the despair of the characters, the Gothic (but no too Gothic) style of everything and an evil plot! Squeaky doors, spider webs, evil laughs, rain and the lingering death!
There is some killer cast in this movie. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr are enough to take this movie to another level. No one can compete with Price's class and Steele's look and looks (remember what we said on Black Sunday?) and no one can act better in such environment. It almost seems as these actors were born to act in such films, as if they do not belong in our era or dimension!
Must watch this : definitely on a cold or rainy night, with a glass of wine, alone. Let the mood and the cold give you goosebumps!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055304/
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| Queen Steele |
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| Yeah, it looks like a painting but fuck you! |
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| More interactive than modern 3-D |
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