The Haunted Palace (1963)
- Directed by
- Roger Corman
- Genre
- fantasy film, horror film, historical film, gothic film, supernatural horror film, gothic horror film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 195 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man inherits a cursed palace in a remote village where the locals fear the return of a dead sorcerer. He begins to experience strange changes and discovers he may be possessed by the sorcerer's spirit.
creepyatmosphericgothicslow-burnmelancholicsupernaturalmysterioustense
What happens
The Haunted Palace is a 1963 Gothic fantasy horror film released by American International Pictures, starring Vincent Price, Lon Chaney Jr. and Debra Paget (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead necromancer. Directed by Roger Corman, it is one of his series of eight films derived from or inspired by the works of American author Edgar Allan Poe. Although marketed as "Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace", the film actually derives its plot from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. The film's title is derived from a 6-stanza poem by Poe, published in 1839 (which was later incorporated into Poe's horror short story "The Fall of the House of Usher"), and the film uses eight lines from the poem within the framing of the story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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