The Tomb of Ligeia

The Tomb of Ligeia 1964 is an American International Pictures horror film, produced in the UK by Alta Vista Productions. Starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd it tells of a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage. The screenplay by Robert Towne was based upon the tale Ligeia by American author Edgar Allan Poe.

Verden Fell Vincent Price is both mournful and threatened by his first wifes death. He senses her reluctance to die and her nearblasphemous statements about God she was an atheist. Alone and troubled by a vision problem that requires him to wear strange dark glasses, Fell shuns the world. Against his better judgement, he marries a headstrong young woman Elizabeth Shepherd he meets by accident and who is apparently bethrothed to an old friend Christopher Gough John Westbrook.The spirit of Fells first wife Ligeia seems to haunt the old mansionabbey where they live and a series of nocturnal visions and the sinister presence of a cat who may be inhabited by the spirit of Ligeia cause him distress. Ultimately he must face the spirit of Ligeia and resist her or perish. ........

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