Tales of Terror

Roger Corman produced and directed these three macabre tales based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe. "The Case of Mr. Veldimar" has Veldimar (Vincent Price) as the victim of a zombie trance inflicted by Carmichael (Basil Rathbone). The villain covets the victim's wife, vowing to keep her husband in the perpetual curse unless she agrees to marry him. When Helene (Debra Paget) agrees to marry the spellbinder, Veldimar comes back to life to avenge the curse. "Morella" stars Price as a man driven insane after his wife dies giving birth to their only child. The child grows up to be a beautiful woman and visits her father's haunted mansion. The late wife Morella comes back from the grave with a hideous face that has suffered over twenty years of decomposition for a stomach turning family reunion. In "The Black Cat", Montresor (Peter Lorre) is a vengeful drunk who walls up his unfaithful wife and her lover (Price) in a catacomb. All the villains get their just deserts in this flesh crawling trilogy.