The Haunted Palace Movie Review 1963

Price plays both a 17th-century warlock burned at the stake and a descendant who returns to the family dungeon and gets possessed by the mutant-breeding forebearer. The movie has its own identity crisis, with title and ambience from Poe but story from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." Respectable but rootless chills.

Distribution

Mike LeBell's Video, 75 Freemont Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90005, Phone: (213)938-3333, Fax: (213)938-3334, Email: mlvideo@aol.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 87 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Supernatural Horror, Witchcraft, Revenge, Books to Film: Edgar Allan Poe, Producers: Roger Corman/New World, Books to Film: H.P. Lovecraft

Screenplay

Charles Beaumont, Floyd Crosby

Cast

Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney, Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon, Elisha Cook, John Dierkes, Barboura Morris, Bruno VeSota

Director

Roger Corman

Music

Ronald Stein

Producer

Roger Corman, Alta Vista, American International Pictures (A.I.P.)