Tales of Terror
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 socalled CormanPoe 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.
When Lenora Locke Maggie Pierce travels from Boston to be reunited with her father Vincent Price in his decrepit and cobwebbed mansion, she finds him drunk, disordered, and depressed. He refuses her company, insisting that she killed her mother Morella Leona Gage in childbirth. Lenora then discovers her mothers body decomposing on a bed in the house. Lenora cannot return to Boston and remains in the house to care for her father. His feelings soften towards her when he learns she has a terminal illness. One night Morellas spirit rises, and kills Lenora in revenge for her childbed death. Morellas body is then resurrected, becoming as whole and as beautiful as she was in life. This is in exchange for Lenoras, which is now decomposing where Morella lay. Morella strangles her horrified husband as a fire breaks out in the house. Then Morella and Lenora return to their original bodies, Lenora smiling as she lies on her dead father, rotten Morella cackling as the flames consume the house. The cast includes Edmund Cobb as a coach driver.Montresor Herringbone Peter Lorre hates his wife Annabelle Joyce Jameson and her black cat. One night on a ramble about town, he happens upon a wine tasting event and challenges the worlds foremost wine taster, Fortunato Luchresi Vincent Price, to a contest. Herringbone becomes drunk. Luchresi escorts him home and meets his wife. Time passes, and Annabelle and Luchresi become intimate. The cuckolded Herringbone then entombs them alive in an alcove in the basement. The authorities become suspicious and two policemen John Hackett and Lennie Weinrib visit the house to investigate. Hearing screeching behind a basement wall, they knock the wall down to discover the dead lovers and Annabelles black cat, which Herringbone had accidentally walled up with the lovers. Cast includes Wally Campo as bartender Wilkins and Alan DeWitt as the WineTasting Chairman. ........
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