Customer Rating: Summary: A must for all Price fans ! Comment: The first film is a Roger Corman / Poe classic featuring three tales, all staring Vincent Price and other great veteran actors such as Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre. The first story here involves a tormented Price who keeps his dead wife upstairs who soon enough returns to life and goes on a rampage! The second story is my personal favourite Corman/Price effort - called The Black Cat. Here the cast from 'The Comedy of Terror' are re-united and Peter Lorre plays (perhaps too believably) a bumbling wineo, who runs into Price at a wine tasting contest. Soon enough Price becomes Lorre's new best friend and is making sure he has plenty of booze money - but only so he can entertain his wife while Lorre is away at the pub all night ! Lorre finds out, returns home and bricks up both Price and his unfaithful wife in the cellar! But what happened to that accursed cat that he so detests?? This story is also very true to the original Poe tale (something of a rarity for many Corman adaptations !). The third tale features Basil Rathbone as a hypnotist, keeping an aged Price under his mesmeric power during his death... And beyond, much to the horror of his next of kin !
The second film I had not seen before and I was a little wary about, as it is not a Corman effort and neither is it based on the works of Poe. However - it complements the first film beautifully and is filled with more macabre short tales. Each short story stars the ever versatile Price and he gives a strong performance in each. In the first tale two aged friends discover an elixir of life - only to find their forgotten rivalry over a dead love is also rejuvenated in the process, with deadly consequences ! In the second tale Price is a reclusive scientist who has contaminated his daughter on a genetic level, causing most living things she comes into contact with to wither and die ! The third tale is very Poe-like, here Price is tormented by a family curse and there is the skeleton of his ancestors victim buried somewhere in his cellar. Excellent stuff, a fantastic blend of short horror stories from the 60's and a must for those who like Vincent Price/Roger Corman movies !! But PLEASE NOTE - you will need a multi-region DVD player to view this and there is one film on each side of the DVD.
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