American International Pictures
Directed by Roger Corman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Shout! Factory)
Vincent Price is a warlock burned at the stake for corrupting the local women. He curses those responsible and shows up over a hundred years later to make good on it by possessing a descendant who shows up with his wife to claim his abandoned mansion. When the man's wife, Debra Paget, resists his advances, he turns to the Necronomicon to help him revive his centuries old wife. Meanwhile the townsfolk are growing uneasy and want revenge. More Lovecraft than Poe, with an underdeveloped subplot involving mutants, it is nonetheless atmospheric, set in a Gothic-tinged castle with perpetual fog and thunderstorms.
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