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

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)

Trailer

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