American International Pictures
Directed by Roger Corman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Kino Lorber)
Anthology loosely based on stories by Edgar Allen Poe. In the first, Vincent Price is a widower living alone in a decrepit mansion. Unable to move on from his wife's death, he keeps her decomposing body in a bed. When his daughter visits, we learn that his wife died in childbirth. One night his wife's ghost rises from her bed and kills his daughter, after which she takes over her body. Her husband is the next victim in a fiery ending. In the second story, Price is teamed with Peter Lorre as dueling drunks. In the film's best scene, they try to out-drink each other at a wine tasting. However, when Price starts an affair with his wife, he goes to extremes to get revenge. In the last story, an aging Price uses a hypnotist to extend his life, but gets caught in a kind of purgatory neither dead or alive. The hypnotist tries to seduce his wife, prompting a decomposing Price to come back to life. Unsuccessfully tries to incorporate humor into the morbid stories, but they still come out unscathed.
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